It plugs into the top edge of #1 riser. I have no idea what the OEM bracket looks like. I have a cable on order and can't test it till then.
Also received the second CPU today so I now have the LSI 9271-8i up and running.
Quanta 2U D51B: LGA2011-3, 24 x 2.5" Trays, 10 GbE, Rails $250 OBO
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Also received the second CPU today so I now have the LSI 9271-8i up and running.
That is awesome workDid a bit of ghetto engineering to install the 12G SAS controller. It's solid and gets the job done.
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, now I wish I have my own metal shop at home so I can fabricate brackets like that easily. Keep us posted of the progress, I am curious how the backplane works, especially whether it is single or dual 12gbps backplane.
Haven't gotten to researching the backplane yet. I'll be doing some benchmarking as soon as the cable for the 12G controller arrives.That is awesome work
For the rails that come with this, do you know what the minimum distance on the rails is? My rack is 29" from post to post which is slightly shorter than the server itself, so I wanted to make sure the rails would adjust down short enough to work in my rack before buying.
Haven't measure them but they adjust down far enough to fit any rack I believe.
Just went and measured my rack. It's also 29" post to post so yea, you're good.
Thank you very much. I thought it would be fine, but could not find any info on the rails anywhere. Guess I'm buying some servers now.
The Mini SAS cable arrived today so I was able to get the 12G QS-3008 Mex controller up and running. Apparently it's a HBA. It passed all the drives on to the OS without any configuring. I wasn't watching as it booted but this is all I ask of it. Now all is well. This box has been a rock the last fews days I've been playing with it. No glitches and no surprises.
Is it single or dual expander backplane ?? Do you have SAS drive connected to the backplane ?? does it shows multipath ? Thanks.The Mini SAS cable arrived today so I was able to get the 12G QS-3008 Mex controller up and running. Apparently it's a HBA. It passed all the drives on to the OS without any configuring. I wasn't watching as it booted but this is all I ask of it. Now all is well. This box has been a rock the last fews days I've been playing with it. No glitches and no surprises.
Running on ubuntu with both connectors hooked up to a LSI SAS3008-based HBA, only one of the ports is connected to the backplane. The other port's phy is showing "no device attached".
Has anyone seen what the mezz bracket looks like for this unit? Most of the Quanta LSI SAS 3008 cards sold on Ebay seem to be sold without them and it is not really clear what fits the 2U and what fits the 1U servers
Good find. From the picture it looks like similar to this unit currently being sold on Ebay. The cost of the unit plus shipping makes it somewhat prohibitive for me, but maybe someone is willing to take a shot.
there's also this listing for a 2208 card with the bracket:
Quanta SAS 2208 Mezz Controller card LSI 2 Port PCIe 3.0 x8 6Gb SAS RAID ZZ | eBay
Quanta SAS 2208 Mezz Controller card LSI 2 Port PCIe 3.0 x8 6Gb SAS RAID ZZ | eBay
As someone still pretty new to this, thanks for posting this other listing! I'm considering buying one of these to try my hand at setting up a zfs fileserver. It looks like Quanta provided an updated BIOS in 2018 for the Intel hardware vulnerabilities that came out that year, so that looks good. (Download Center | QCT- Quanta Cloud Technology)
Based on the listing then, the only thing missing for a working system is memory? I found this components list: Marketing summary report Looks like if I also buy some used DDR3 registered memory meeting those specifications I should have everything I need to set up a working file server?
Sorry for the newbie questions--like I say I'm still new to buying used enterprise hardware like this and don't want to buy a pile of stuff I can't use. Thanks for any tips!