Hm too bad. Then I will have to buy 2x32gb which makes it much more expensive. gotta think it through.
Intel Xeon D-1500 Series Discussion
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re: 2xRAM modules being required to install - if you meant specifically for dual channel, then yes
otherwise, I installed a system for a client with 1x16GB DDR4 successfully
re: 2xRAM modules being required to install - if you meant specifically for dual channel, then yes
otherwise, I installed a system for a client with 1x16GB DDR4 successfully
thanks for clearing it up.
@Davewolfs were you doing something special for it to crash? or just normal usage? Can you post your full hardware setup?
let's hope that was a one time only event.
@Davewolfs were you doing something special for it to crash? or just normal usage? Can you post your full hardware setup?
let's hope that was a one time only event.
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Here's the pastebin with the output above (2.6 kernel, so not quite everything)...
sm xeon-1500 - Pastebin.com
Indeed, it's only a matter of time. I've gone through more than my share of major changes in cable plant trends (anybody here ever deal with cascaded DELNIs off thicknet, or worse??). The state of the art advances on all fronts.
I wasn't referring to fiber at all (though it's lumped in due to SFP+) but Twinax/DAC. I've implemented a ton of 10GE deployments large and small for years in my day job, and <10M connectivity (host to ToR) has been almost 100% Twinax. I'm actually surprised you only bring up fiber.
I have seen a few (and I mean few) 10GBASE-T switch deployments recently, but with most or all ports at 1GE speeds. Commodity stuff like dedicated management LANs that were up for refresh, where 10GBASE-T gear was potential future proofing. Sure, more and more 10gig connections will pop up on those 10GBASE-T ports, but it's going to be slow.
Same with 10GBASE-T on servers. I can see people seeing 10GBASE-T LOM/MLOM and metally checking off the "future proofing" bullet, and it winds up connecting to a 1gig switch
Also, that minor difference in power usage becomes a huge factor if you're running DCs (or hosting DCs) and deal with dozens, hundreds or thousands of ports.
The slower jump from 1GBASE-T to 10GBASE-T wasn't just because of endpoints not able to (or not needing to) drive 10gig speeds, but dealing with and improving UTP physical/electrical characteristics.
Anyway back to the main point. I'm not trying to discount 10GBASE-T (I have a few, operating at full rate) but the lack of X10SDV's with SFP+ is downright weird because production SFP+ *Twinax* users are not the minority.
"Never say never" but I don't believe it will be abrupt. Maybe there's some customer vertical I'm overlooking, but I am in a position to see SFP+ (specifically Twinax for host to switch) versus 10GBASE-T deployments. Per my other reply I'm only seeing a few of the latter, and usually running at 1gig speeds.
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It sounds like you're concerned about this as part of your day job (and stuff like the cost of cable pulls). Have you looked into NBASE-T?
2.5 or 5gig over existing Cat5E/Cat6 cable plants seems very appealing to me... but Cisco is one of the founding members and they have yet to ship a Wave 2 AP that supports NBASE-T/multigabit. It may be best to wait for IETF to do it's thing.
I'm really just doing basic SR-IOV in CentOS 6; the driver clearly says that it's not supported by the hardware. It's likely that this is disabled in BIOS for some reason, rather than being disabled in silicon. Could be that it's not yet stable, so it's being forced disabled until it works reliably. Hard to say - Supermicro is probably under NDA with Intel on details like that.
Anyways, I bought a Chelsio 10Gb NIC (Chelsio T520-SO-CR Dual-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter SFP+ to fix both my 10GBase-T link problems (moving to SFP+) and my missing SR-IOV. Should be here in a couple weeks (backordered).
To a degree yes, but at the same time, what then happens when I want to (reliably) stream multiple 4k feeds around the house over wifi? I personally wouldn't because cable > wireless, but no doubt I'd be pulled in to do it for a friend or family. I have been looking at HDbase-T for doing media streaming around the house for a couple of months now, it's just justifying it now really.
Nbase-T does look interesting, but at this point in time, 10Gb is pretty well established in the enterprise world and is (slowly) filtering down to consumer level as well, especially with more and more motherboards coming with 10Gbase-T (Xeon-D and E3 prosumer workstation boards). I'm not sure that I (as a consumer not a worker) would invest in a new, unproven, and mostly unsupported networking setup which has no market presence nor history when I could rollout a 10Gb switch today and plug/play up to full bandwidth as I upgrade NIC's in my network. I don't think the price/performance would be there when compared to 10Gb, especially for early adopters. Unless they can match 1Gb today.
Now, if Nbase-T is plug and play with a simple driver/firmware update on my Intel NICs, get it in me!
If you want to deploy twinax instead of fiber, it only changes the numbers a little bit--you'll still save a bit on power, and still probably not save enough to pay for the increased cost of the transceivers above the cost of a patch cable across the life of the hardware. If you've invested heavily in sfp+ ports top of rack, then by all means continue to buy sfp+ servers. At some point when you buy a new rack or a new switch and 10GbaseT is standard on all the servers, you'll have to question whether you want to pay a premium to put sfp+ in again, and most people won't see a point in doing so. The only real question is when that change is coming; I tend to think it's imminent, but reasonable people can disagree.
Cisco tends to have awkwardly long product cycles for some things, and misses stuff that's a no-brainer for the broad market because they're so dominant in the enterprise. E.g., it was amusing back in the day when any <$100 consumer grade switch came with auto MDI-X but a $1000+ cisco enterprise switch still needed the proper crossover cable. In an enterprise you can assume people have the right cable (or you can sell it to them), you have no incentive to redesign silicon if you don't have to, and if you're cisco people will buy the stuff even if it's not the most cutting edge experience. I think the real driver for NBASE-T is SOHO and prosumer, and you'd see it explode if it get onto the really cheap high-volume integrated chips in commodity switches. Having some steps between 1G & 10G is a no-brainer for most endpoints, because the number of systems that are bottlenecked by 1G is a heck of a lot larger than the number that can saturate 10G. The big networking companies have been terrified of cannibalizing their 10G margins with an intermediate standard, but at some point other interests may carry the day. (Note that cisco is still mostly talking about NBASE-T as basically a proprietary uplink for their wireless gear.)
I don't think it'll see consumer adoption, but maybe... I haven't really thought about it yet (probably due to no Wave 2 plans for my home yet). For enterprise, there's at least one use case (802.11ac wave 2 APs + a large amount of older cable plants) that could be critical for many companies.
Short answer is no. I spoke with intel 6 months back and was told no chance to do that on chipsets available at that time. I was specifically asking about X540-T2 and i354 2.5G (was thinking the latter could "train down" a full NBASE-T ink peer to 2.5G). No idea if Intel is shipping an NBASE-T card yet.
I guess we're off topic
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What about the other integrated NIC i350-AM2?
On papers, it should support SR-IOV.
Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 Specifications
Haven't tried it; I currently have the i350 assigned via VT-d to my VM guest directly, without using any virtual functions. Since it's taking traffic, I don't want to pull it down to test SR-IOV
I've been waiting for these to come out in SFP+ for a while, like most users, and something struck me as odd yesterday. I've decided to buy a 2011 system for a testbed for FreeNAS / Omni-OS / and a couple of other solutions and decided on a E5-1630v3 and wanted a SM board to go with it. In looking through the motherboards there are no single CPU SFP+ products as those look like they're reserved for DP only. This got me to thinking since this SOC is technically a single proc will we ever get what we're all holding out for?
Open box MBD-X10SDV-TLN4F-O 800USD
Open Box: SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SDV-TLN4F-O Mini ITX Server Motherboard Xeon processor D-1540 FCBGA 1667 - Newegg.com
Open Box: SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SDV-TLN4F-O Mini ITX Server Motherboard Xeon processor D-1540 FCBGA 1667 - Newegg.com