Intel Xeon D-1500 Series Discussion

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Patrick

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Interesting update.
27.8w with ESXi 6.0.0 at idle
24.5w with ESXi 6.0.0 at idle after I swapped from a higher speed fan to something that is a much quieter/ slower 120mm PWM fan. -3w off of the idle!

I am going to give it a shot with Windows since there might be the best idle performance OS wise. If I get a chance I will try going back to Ubuntu to see if that 3w reduction holds there also. If so, that would be a huge win idle wise.
 
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EffrafaxOfWug

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Patrick; I'm not sure what power-savings ubuntu has OotB these days but can you give powertop a whirl and see what its tunables read?

I added these udev rules in debian to enable power saving on almost everything and across my machines it's usually good for a ~15% reduction.
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ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{power/control}="auto"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", TEST=="power/control", ATTR{power/control}="auto"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_host", KERNEL=="host*", ATTR{link_power_management_policy}="min_power"
 

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For the home lab, I'm actually more interested in how well the D-1520 will fair. The D-1540 performance is great but definately caries a price premium over current E3 + mobo or Avoton/Rangley methods. The CPU alone for the 1540 is around $581 while the 1520 is $199 (List of Intel Xeon microprocessors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), with the 1520 configuration we would be sitting more in the neighborhood of the Avoton/Rangley boards out there just under the $400-mark.

Also worth noting that the 1520 is clocked at 2.2GHz vs 2GHz on the 1540 with both are topping out at 2.6 GHz with Turbo.
 

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Interesting update.
27.8w with ESXi 6.0.0 at idle
24.5w with ESXi 6.0.0 at idle after I swapped from a higher speed fan to something that is a much quieter/ slower 120mm PWM fan. -3w off of the idle!

I am going to give it a shot with Windows since there might be the best idle performance OS wise. If I get a chance I will try going back to Ubuntu to see if that 3w reduction holds there also. If so, that would be a huge win idle wise.
What kind of peak usage are you seeing with this board?
 

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For the home lab, I'm actually more interested in how well the D-1520 will fair. The D-1540 performance is great but definately caries a price premium over current E3 + mobo or Avoton/Rangley methods. The CPU alone for the 1540 is around $581 while the 1520 is $199 (List of Intel Xeon microprocessors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), with the 1520 configuration we would be sitting more in the neighborhood of the Avoton/Rangley boards out there just under the $400-mark.

Also worth noting that the 1520 is clocked at 2.2GHz vs 2GHz on the 1540 with both are topping out at 2.6 GHz with Turbo.
Going dual 1520s might be cheaper than a single D1540, one could get away with 4 8GB ddr4 ecc sticks instead of springing for 16GB ones with the option of going to 16GB sticks. I think, if mobos, are cheap, I might do this as well. I don't need fail-over, just room to run a few VM's that would benefit from more cores.

Two of these @ full bore would still be less heat than my current config generates at idle.
 

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I think two 1520s would be great for what I need at home. I could do one as a storage server, the other as a VM host and do two direct 10G connections between them for NFS traffic. Probably running FreeNAS with one datastore for VMs & one for CIFS shares. 32GB would be plenty of RAM for anything I need to do at any point in the future for a quite while. May consider running my OpnSense router on my N40L just because though (I think it can do software RAID 1 now since I don't want to lose my RAC).
 
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I think two 1520s would be great for what I need at home. I could do one as a storage server, the other as a VM host and do two direct 10G connections between them for NFS traffic. Probably running FreeNAS with one datastore for VMs & one for CIFS shares. 32GB would be plenty of RAM for anything I need to do at any point in the future for a quite while. May consider running my OpnSense router on my N40L just because though (I think it can do software RAID 1 now since I don't want to lose my RAC).
this too is my current planned use-case. ZFS, pfsense, etc and a VM on the other.
 

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this too is my current planned use-case. ZFS, pfsense, etc and a VM on the other.
I went from pfSense to OpnSense due to the licensing worries about pfSense. I don't have IDS or IPS yet, but my router (Atom D510) can't really handle those anyway. Plus, I can update the thing without having to reboot which is nice.
 

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@Patrick how's the openssl performance like on these Intel Xeon D's ? you might now want to run my entire centminmodbench.sh suite, but just the openssl stuff via command

Code:
openssl speed rsa4096 rsa2048 ecdsap256 sha256 sha1 md5 rc4 aes-256-cbc aes-128-cbc -multi 16
openssl speed -evp aes256 -multi 16
openssl speed -evp aes128 -multi 16
interested to see how it compares against Xeon E3-1240v3
 

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@Patrick how's the openssl performance like on these Intel Xeon D's ? you might now want to run my entire centminmodbench.sh suite, but just the openssl stuff via command

Code:
openssl speed rsa4096 rsa2048 ecdsap256 sha256 sha1 md5 rc4 aes-256-cbc aes-128-cbc -multi 16
openssl speed -evp aes256 -multi 16
openssl speed -evp aes128 -multi 16
interested to see how it compares against Xeon E3-1240v3
No CentOS yet. Linux-Bench OpenSSL:
Sign (p/s) 620.3
Verify (p/s) 39165.4

BTW - I have a system now, 64GB of RAM, 6x S3700 400GB, 1x m.2 Intel 530 180GB. Still a 1.9GHz pre-production. There is one SFP+ port.

What shall I run on it?