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Yesterday my device died. I investigated why it idled at 54°C and I was expecting bad contact or bad thermal paste application. Apparently it was three thick layers of thermal paste: one on the aluminium cover, one on the copper block and one on a thin copper shim. After cleaning and applying...

Sorry, can't help you more as I'm not experienced with either. I just tried looking at solutions you might have missed.

The cheapest I know are the Dell S4112F-ON and S4112T-ON, 12-port 10Gbit with three 100Gbit ports. These can be had for a few thousand dollar second-hand. There is also the Dell N1108T-ON which is 1Gbit only, but can be acquired cheaply.

I'm confused, I thought DPUs were developed to split the host server's hardware and resources from the Hypervisor kernel to improve performance, security and manageability. In the sense that ESXi would be installed on the DPU with its own CPU and RAM for the hypervisor kernel, while allowing...

Thanks for the suggestion, that's a very interesting case ! Though in my region (EU) these seem to be hard to come by, I only see an email address from the regional office. I'll inquire about these. I'll not be needing a full IPMI solution but something to restart the device when the OS is not...

Any other suggestions ? I'm thinking about something from Project MiniMicro that I can rackmount with ports front-facing.

That's going to be a problem in some of the racks on our branch offices regretably :(

I considered these but they have rear I/O which is a huge problem in single sided network closets.

I'm looking at assembling half a dozen systems for our branch offices to speed up logon/logoff and file access in our Windows domain. Specifically these should fit typical network rack closets so front I/O, short depth and low heat output are crucial. What I've read a BranchCache server is...

@Layla I'm not looking the sell them here or online though.

I'm trying to figure out how to do that while being efficient, safe and legal. That's the challenge and it's costing me a lot of time just to figure out. I can't figure out how to sell these at all even well below the market value but without being scammed, having to give warranty (I cannot)...

Sorry for the clickbaity title, I'll explain. Somehow we have a few Tesla T4 cards for a while that are collecting dust because these were included in some servers while we didn't order or pay these. We don't have any use case for them realistically as the only use case we could figure out...

EDIT: got it working, found the P14 version of the SAS2FLASH.EFI with Slovak's post on the first page ! I remember seeing it earlier but somehow missed it when I needed it. EDIT2: apparently this is a 9205-8i card instead of a 9207-8i card. Strange, I thought the HP H220 D1 cards were all...

I found some switches that will also suffice: Dell PowerConnect 5524 (link) as next to the two SFP+ 10Gb ports, it also has a 40Gb stacking feature through HDMI. These were around 110€ each and with 3 I expect to be able to keep bottlenecks to a minimum.

The Juniper EX4300 are also quite expensive in the EU, the cheapest is aroung 700€ :( I see what you guys mean, I'll forget about the 40Gbit connection. Although our LAN has had quite some bandwidth throughput usage during peak hours, our multiple 1G links have been a bottleneck a few times...

Thanks for your reply but alas Brocade ICX isn't cheap in the EU, they probably haven't sol much of them over here. The cheapest ICX6450 is around 240€ for a single one listed, the next one is 300€ and it doesn't have any QSFP+ ports. The cheapest ICX6610 is around 700€ for a single one listed...

I have a few ConnectX-3 cards with dual QSFP+ ports on each and I'd like to have their capacity available for a local LAN party (36 total 1G ports required) without breaking the bank. The problem is the QSFP+ enabled switches common in the US are either much more expensive in the EU or just...

I can recommend this one instead if you need affordable shipping to Europe: Mellanox ConnectX-3 QDR QSFP+ InfiniBand 10 LP MCX354A 050-0050-02 CX354A-QCBT | eBay For me it was around 50€ for the item, shipping and tax.

I've read to many issues with HP and 3rd-party SSDs (example 1, example 2) that I'm following TuxDude's advice and go with 100% supported devices, most likely 12 HP 10K 300GB drives in RAID10 as a second data-store. Thanks for the feedback everyone !

Using SSDs in the two hosts as a read/write cache is not going to work for us, available from 5.5 and later, but requiring an Enterprise Plus license, we have an Essentials Plus license. Cache for host-swap is useless as we aren't RAM constrained. My updated list: Toshiba PX03SNF020 (200GB SAS...