Hi all,
I have just acquired my first "real" server, an old 2U Quad socket supermicro with 4x Xeon E7320 and 48GB of RAM installed.
I plan to use Xen (personnal preference, might try ESXi too if possible) to consolidate 5 old IBM x306m 1U single pentium 4/512M servers with low utilization.
The remaining capacity is mine to play around with
.
The motherboard is a supermicro X7QCE quad-socket-604 with intel 7300 chipset. Supermicro's website mentions the board supports "6-Core Intel® Xeon®
Processor 7400 sequence" CPUs.
I have bought separately 4x Xeon E7458 CPUs, which are like 7450 but with 16M L3 (a la 7460). I know these where "oem only" CPUs sold in HP servers. But since they were very cheap, I took a chance.
My question is thus :
Is BIOS support for a CPU implemented on a model basis or a family basis, especially nowadays that multipliers and such are all configured on the chip.
More succintly, is there a chance in hell this might work?
I have just acquired my first "real" server, an old 2U Quad socket supermicro with 4x Xeon E7320 and 48GB of RAM installed.
I plan to use Xen (personnal preference, might try ESXi too if possible) to consolidate 5 old IBM x306m 1U single pentium 4/512M servers with low utilization.
The remaining capacity is mine to play around with
.The motherboard is a supermicro X7QCE quad-socket-604 with intel 7300 chipset. Supermicro's website mentions the board supports "6-Core Intel® Xeon®
Processor 7400 sequence" CPUs.
I have bought separately 4x Xeon E7458 CPUs, which are like 7450 but with 16M L3 (a la 7460). I know these where "oem only" CPUs sold in HP servers. But since they were very cheap, I took a chance.
My question is thus :
Is BIOS support for a CPU implemented on a model basis or a family basis, especially nowadays that multipliers and such are all configured on the chip.
More succintly, is there a chance in hell this might work?