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    Two e5-2696 v2 for $460 Very limited supply!!

    yep...reason for many of us. I would like to buy that older 2x10core board but with current status of major security holes in intel procesors, Im still waiting for DDR4 prices to drop in order to buy something new from AMD. Unfortunatelly Im already waiting more than year and still current DRAM...
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    Two e5-2696 v2 for $460 Very limited supply!!

    beat this Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ Motherboard 2x E5-2690v2 10-Core CPU LGA2011 Heatsink I/O 672042094240 | eBay
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    Trusting network cards purchased from ebay

    Thx for tip on Diag tool. I downloaded broadcom desktop utility a run some test and its says everything is OK... :) Where I can find new firmware for my card? I didnt see it in download section...
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    Trusting network cards purchased from ebay

    Hello, whats you opinion on trusting network cards purchased from ebay? Would you put such a network card in your router PC as main interface for connection to your ISP? I mean anybody from seller to manufacturer could temper with firmware... I did buy "Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit 10/100/1000M...
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    BRAND NEW HGST 4TB SAS HUS726040ALS214 for under $70 ($55 for qty >= 10)

    If these drivers are really "unused", than thats good find. Will those work with ServeRAID M1015 SAS card?
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    Gigabyte AMD EPYC Mobo

    looks sexy, unfortunatelly current price of DDR4 ram make any platform using them absurdly expensive.
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    Supermicro 216 system $525+shipping

    Price is good, but only US...
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    Supermicro motheboards BMC-IPMI security issue - critical

    CARISIRT: Yet Another BMC Vulnerability (And some added extras) | CARI.net Blog
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    manage RAID controllers ESX

    If I understand you correctly, you need remote management capability in your servers. On HP its called ILo, on Dells Drac. Base on type of remote management you can setup Drac to send you email or snmp if disk die for example. Raid conf from vmware, perhaps if theres sw tools from manufacter. If...
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    Citrix XenServer VS Proxmox

    because they does not have anything worth of word backup in default.
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    Citrix XenServer VS Proxmox

    You can take xenserver as rock solid for deployment. Theres some theories about "penaltys" there and there but in reality if I compare old xenserver 5.4 which I still have up and running few years without any problems with vmware 5.1 for example on same HW a will definitelly choose xenserver...
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    Citrix or vmware for 10+ C6100 machines?

    Two-Node High Availability Cluster - Proxmox VE Of course not recommended for "mission critical" deployment but for "hobby" project why not?
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    16x3.5" With shipping to Europe, cheap n nasty

    if you dont want get killed...you dont put this in her work room :)
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    16x3.5" With shipping to Europe, cheap n nasty

    great tip for EU folks. thx
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    Citrix or vmware for 10+ C6100 machines?

    Hm I read 10 hw nodes, so I automatically thought that there will by some cluster setup maybe HA. But if its about 10x single nodes without one-central management console(vcenter should work in trial for 60 days with free Esxi nodes) vmware can be used....but why use Ford when you can have Audi...
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    Citrix or vmware for 10+ C6100 machines?

    well solution is really simple here. Do you have money for your "hobby :)" project to support buying esxi+vcenter?... And why would you spend a fortune for vmware licenses when you can have free! xenserver? I manage many "virtual" platforms ...vmware, xen, hyper-v, kvm, bsd jails and cross few...
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    Open Nebula

    how many servers and how many vms?
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    STH Main Site Direction - April 2013

    well I have one idea for ya... "Users gives back" ... did you find usefull info on our site and use it to build some interesting "home"(or another) project? Tell as about that...send info, even write article about it, send it to us and if it will be good or interesting we can make article for...