J1900 / ASRockRack J1900D2Y -- power usage? Do you have alternative suggestions?

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ItsChrisG

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Hi Guys,
What do you think of the Intel J1900 CPU's performance in general?
Secondly, does anyone know the power usage (estimated or real world) of the ASRock RACK J1900D2Y ?
Thirdly, do you have a recommendation for a better option SoC with perhaps a better CPU or other advantages? They must have IPMI however so that there is a way to remotely reboot them.

If there is any high density solution you know of as well, please feel free to definitely share!

Thank You!!
 
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I was running the Supermicro version (X10SBA) in the 12-19w range. that does not have the ASPEED chip for IPMI so add a few more watts for that.
 
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cesmith9999 said:
at $300, I would buy a A1SRM on ebay and get more lan prots

SuperMicro X11SBA-LN4F Motherboard at Amazon.com

Supermicro A1SRM LN7F 2358 Intel Atom C2358 2 Core 1 7 2 0GHz Server Motherboard | eBay


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I guess it all depends on his specific use case - does he actually need 7 network ports vs 4, vs 2 ? If CPU is his main concern, for sub $300 he could pick up a X10SLM+-LN4F and i3-4130T (ebay) and get some, relatively, serious horsepower, at the expense of peak power consumption.
 
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I need to get ultra high density, with ipmi, for use as dedicated server rentals/leases.
At the moment, I have a solution to get me 96x J1900D2Y in 1 rack, with just a single 20A 120v.
Depending on how it works out and what I can do with venting exhaust.... I could do back to back and have 192 servers on just 2x20A 120v.

These are fully independent, bare metal servers!
 
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This isn't my area of expertise, but before I step out of the conversation, I'd suggest checking out something based on the Intel c2750 - Supermicro and Asrock both have offerings that include ipmi.
 
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J1900 is very low power
average idle if you turn on power saving (will effect perfomance) with 1 intel 520 SSD 60G, 2 low power fans (total is 1 W), and 1 blower SM fan (2W) ~ 8W during idle, or jump to 15W max on non idle
without power saving is 10W during idle and 15W max on non idle

just a warning on making baremetal
esxi does not support video hardware minimally,stuck!! during installation
linux based baremetal could/would do without issue, minimaaly laterst kernel 3.X or kernel 4.X

I have J1800 (j1900 with two cores disabled) on running proxmox. performance is OK for one a bit heavy router IPCOP, 1 VM with openclient VPN, 1 VM for very light duties.

add extra 2W for IPMI :D...
 
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FYI -- I hear the J1900D2Y from ASRock RACK ---DOES--- support ESXi.

Now if only I could find a place that has them in stock in quantity and at a significant whole saler/bulk order discount :(
 
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ItsChrisG said:
FYI -- I hear the J1900D2Y from ASRock RACK ---DOES--- support ESXi.

Now if only I could find a place that has them in stock in quantity and at a significant whole saler/bulk order discount :(
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Make sure that you have a sample try..
I believe, contact SM, to know on how to buy bulky and get a sample :D. they would help you to get the information on which company or channell to get those.


this is the situation since esxi does not want to update to support video hardware on J1800/J1900/etc/N3050/N3150/etc. when esxi uses SoC video hardware, the installation will fail

I read on other forum that disable SoC video hardware and use IPMI video hardware (ASPEED) can do the trick.

I only have cheap ($35)J1800 foxconn that fit nice on my Celeront 847 replacement that has dual nic crappy realtek :p.

oh forgot to mention, power consumption is included an i340 dual port nic.
i340 take very low power. 2W-4W range .

overall.. I am impressed with J (celeron) performance!!, low power and adequate cpu processing.
 
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ItsChrisG said:
What company(s) do you work/consult for?
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A not so small software company in Redmond, WA.

This is a personal interest and sharing. We do not do DIY servers where I work. It is a bad serviceability model.

Occasionally, I want to do a personal cluster for storage(SOFS) and Hyper-V (TP3 anyone). I am always looking at a not so expensive way to do these things as all of us are on a budget of some type. plus other ideas may spark improvements and better ways of doing things.

Chris
 
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