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Hi guys, I'm looking for 8 RDIMM ECC 3200 MHz (new or used but without defects) at good price. In case, I have VAT ID and will need invoice. Thanks

Hi guys, here I've a bounch of disks just bought on ebay: they arrived with this Isilon caddy I don't know: anyone know the correct way to remove it ? Thanks in advance!

Hi guys, looking at the datasheet of poweredge R7515, it seems that the LOM connector for additional network cards is based on OCP 2.0 standard, type 1, connector A. Dell online configurator offers only Broadcom based solution for a couple of 1G/10G/25G ports. I would like to know if anyone had...

Hello guys, in my lab I have a rack with depth of 1000mm, with front and back fully accessible, but I cannot access sides because is between a wall and another rack. I put servers in this rack, sliding out on front side and the UPS on bottom. Currently I put the switches on the back side, fixed...

Hi guys, I would like to setup a VMware vSAN hybrid in my homelab, by using 3 nodes having 32 EPYC cores each. Each node has 10 spinning SAS disk 10k of 900GB each, then I have some SSD like PM983 of 960GB, and of course I could by other SSD as needed. The amount of VM is quite limited: around...

In a lab I have 3 Esxi hosts managed by Vcenter, each with an EPYC 32 core and 256 GB of Memory plus a TrueNas host equipped with E5-2680v2, 64GB of Memory and a storage of 6x8TB HDD swith SLOG over SAS SSD, this storage is shared to the ESXi hosts by the means of NFS and iSCSI. Currently there...

Hi guys here I'm starting a thread to find how many switches with 10Gb ports are able to keep this speed over cat. 5e cables and how many meters. That could be useful when you cannot overhaul your already cabled network. If any of you had some experience, write it here. I report here some...

I'm looking for 1 or 2 used/refurbished Mellanox FDR switch capable of 56GBE: mostly interested the following models: SX1036, SX1024, SX1012, SX1400, SX1710, SX6036, SX6018, SX6012.

Hi guys I need some advice about 40Gbps networking. I have a small cluster composed by 3 EPYC 2 ESXi servers acting as compute nodes with some NVME disk on board and 1 storage node with hybrid storage (cpu here is E5 2680 v2). The VMs of the computantions nodes need to exchanges frequently a...

Hi guys, I am not able to find the full datasheet of this Samsung memory: Samsung M393A4K40DB3-CWE. Because I need to swap this memory between some server for testing purposes, I would like to check that this binned part is able to work well also at lower speeds: at least 2933, 2666, 2400...

Hi guys, until now I considered DELL S5212F and S224F, as ToR switch 25 GbE with some 100 GbE. I could like also to consider different alternatives: have you any suggestion ?

Maybe this a naive question. I could buy: a new DELL 7425 with 2x7301 EPYC (2.2GHz base clock) and 64 GB of RAM with 24x2,5" chassis and 1 SSD 480GB at 2708 Euro, or a new DELL 7515 with 1x7502P EPYC (2.5 GHz base clock) and 64 GB of RAM with 24x2,5" chassis and 1 SSD 480GB at 4368 Euro (about...

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Hi, while I was looking for 2011 socket R for E5 v2 processor, I found this mobo sometime available in offer, used or new and other similar mobo like ga-6pxsv4 reviwed here. Anyone has used these mobo ? Are they good ? From a quality viewpoint they are like supermicro mobos ? better or worse ...

Hi guys, for my home lab I'm looking for a Supermicro motherboard belonging to X9 Series (because I've already enough ddr3 rdimm) ot equivalent from other reputable brand. My preference is for X9SRL-F, because has enough PCIe lanes for espandbility, but eventually I can consider X9SRi-F or...

Prerequisites: -1) a) move your H200 card from storage slot to another PCI-E slot; b) get longer cables from DELL to connect the backplane to the H200; c) verify the system is still working well. The procedure for flashing DELL H200 SAS card (LSI 9211-8i based) is the...