Picked up a similar unit (same seller, diff specs)
I've poked around with the system a bit, since my unit is for a home Certification lab, the first thing I did was put together a micro USB key with Windows Server 2012 Datacenter R2 ISO on it. I installed the key and installed Windows Server 2012 R2 with no problems - all parts of system detected and supported (though the video is driven by MS Basic Video Driver, something I'd like to change).
A few questions:
1) How does one access the lower "blades"? I've limited by work so far to the blade that is accessible after removing the lid.
2) I'm curious about OS options others are using - I've seen Windows Server 2012 R2 (me) and a couple folks report working with ESXi 5.1/5.5, any others?
3) I can't put my hands on my Kill-A-Watt, anyone have power consumption numbers for 1, 2 or 3 blades running?
4) I'm curious what others are planning to do with their systems - home or work? Training or production work?
Thanks,
Ken
I went for a similar system with 144 Gig of RAM (three nodes, 48 Gigs per node) and one 250 Gig HD per node, got It for a bit less than the linked-to system (I figured I could always add HDs, but RAM would be more expensive to add later).Stumbled across these today: Dell C6005 Cloud Server 6X 1 8GHz AMD 6 Core 48GB RAM 12x 750GB C6100 Series | eBay
Anyone familiar with it? Looks like they can be had relatively affordably.
I've poked around with the system a bit, since my unit is for a home Certification lab, the first thing I did was put together a micro USB key with Windows Server 2012 Datacenter R2 ISO on it. I installed the key and installed Windows Server 2012 R2 with no problems - all parts of system detected and supported (though the video is driven by MS Basic Video Driver, something I'd like to change).
A few questions:
1) How does one access the lower "blades"? I've limited by work so far to the blade that is accessible after removing the lid.
2) I'm curious about OS options others are using - I've seen Windows Server 2012 R2 (me) and a couple folks report working with ESXi 5.1/5.5, any others?
3) I can't put my hands on my Kill-A-Watt, anyone have power consumption numbers for 1, 2 or 3 blades running?
4) I'm curious what others are planning to do with their systems - home or work? Training or production work?
Thanks,
Ken