I have received today a SuperMicro X11SSH-CTF
Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X11SSH-CTF
This mainboard is very new and I am propably one of the first with this mainboard in Germany.
As it offers IPMI, up to 64 GB ECC RAM, 8 x Sata and optionally 2 x 10G ethernet and 8 x Sata/12G SAS it may become the default suggestion for an entry level up to midrange ZFS and All-In-One server.
I ordered the top version with 10G nic and 12G SAS with 16 GB ECC RAM and the G4400 CPU.
The G4400 is a lowcost Dualcore CPU with ECC and vt-d support at about 50 Euro.
The mainboard with 16GB ECC and the G4400 was at 700 Euro.
First impression
- Installation of ESXi 6.0u2 failed (nic not supported, was expected)
After inserting an Intel X540, everything seems ok
- Installation of OmniOS/Solaris 11.3 from an USB stick failed
Installation of OmniOS is possible when you
- install from a Sata CD drive (USB CD drive failed)
but you must use the following bios settings
Advanced > Support Windows 7 USB setup: enable
Boot > Legacy mode
This is important as these new boards do not offer a ps/2 keyboard option.
The 10G nic X550 is also not supported at the moment with OmniOS/Solaris.
update:
Suggested setup method is using a preconfigured image that you can restore ready to use
http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/napp-it.pdf
Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X11SSH-CTF
This mainboard is very new and I am propably one of the first with this mainboard in Germany.
As it offers IPMI, up to 64 GB ECC RAM, 8 x Sata and optionally 2 x 10G ethernet and 8 x Sata/12G SAS it may become the default suggestion for an entry level up to midrange ZFS and All-In-One server.
I ordered the top version with 10G nic and 12G SAS with 16 GB ECC RAM and the G4400 CPU.
The G4400 is a lowcost Dualcore CPU with ECC and vt-d support at about 50 Euro.
The mainboard with 16GB ECC and the G4400 was at 700 Euro.
First impression
- Installation of ESXi 6.0u2 failed (nic not supported, was expected)
After inserting an Intel X540, everything seems ok
- Installation of OmniOS/Solaris 11.3 from an USB stick failed
Installation of OmniOS is possible when you
- install from a Sata CD drive (USB CD drive failed)
but you must use the following bios settings
Advanced > Support Windows 7 USB setup: enable
Boot > Legacy mode
This is important as these new boards do not offer a ps/2 keyboard option.
The 10G nic X550 is also not supported at the moment with OmniOS/Solaris.
update:
Suggested setup method is using a preconfigured image that you can restore ready to use
http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/napp-it.pdf
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