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Chris Cooper

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I actually just picked up two of the motherboards in your post at 50 each, offer got accepted right away so you might be able to do better. I needed a replacement for one of the nodes in the S6500 deal that was posted here a few weeks ago. I had one where the second CPU caused POST to fail every time.

I don't really have any advice on how to get these running without the full chassis but you might want to take a look at the way those nodes are structured to get some ideas.

Power chain goes like this:
HP Common Slot Power Supply -> HP s6500 Power Data Hi-Effcy Backplane Board 663289-001 -> HP SL230G8 Right Personality IVB Board 733177-001 -> Motherboard (12 Pin Power + Signal Cable?)
 
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I haven't been having much fun with motherboards that don't fit into chassis personally.

I would be looking to see if I could find a chassis to hold 2 or 4 or these boards with psu's and backplanes included to in a 2u or 4u configuration for cheap. The open compute power system is different enough that it would be a lot easier to buy as quanta windmill QUANTA OPENRACK WINDMILL SYTEM 2 NODES W/ STSTEM BOARD HEATSINK with a chassis, 2 motherboards and a psu for around $200USD.

It all kind of depends what you are trying to do I suppose. For my little home lab I would love a couple of 2 Node dual xeon ala 2670's to run server vm's on. The open compute chassis are kind of cheap looking but I'm poor so that's life. ESISO has a package with ram and 4 2670's on fleabay for $900 and the boards have 10GBe and two 1GBe. I could actually afford to buy 1 of these a month and 2 is more than enough (1 is probably more than enough - I'd just like to set up my server software off of my workstation at this point and 128GB would let me run plenty of linux vms for general server duty)
 
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i currently have two systems: main server with 256GB ram and dual 2695v2 and a second with 128GB and the 2670s. Both are great machines but would love to have the windmill or other for an actual lab. Realistically its all a lab at home, but usually i cant just go reboot a server without migrating ~50 vm guests and that takes a bit without shared storage. i have also been looking at cent0s7 with zfs/nfs to esxi but have not figured it out fully yet.
 
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At some point the open compute platform discussion was here and i wanted to share the hp blade idea as well. Like it, love it or not. :p
 
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