Lurker here, about 5 years ago I jumped on the 'intel confidential' bandwagon and build a Xeon E5 2660L v3 server. This continues to be my primary homelab/all-in-one box running Promox and a few VMs but it seems like my setup may have started to show its age and I am thinking of possibly upgrading now or maybe next year.
Any thoughts?
I was considering jumping into bed with AMD Ryzen9 -they have a fewCPUs with12 cores that may be a worthy upgrade to my current setup. I don't think CPU is my current bottleneck - but certainly I/O is and my next server I would like to have M.2 SSD for VM storage / ZFS cache.
Are there any good/cheap AMD Ryzen9 motherboards that have remote management / BMC / IPMI that you would recommend? The ones I have found are for AMD EPYC processors and over $400 for a single board. That's too rich for my tastes atm.
Any thoughts?
I was considering jumping into bed with AMD Ryzen9 -they have a fewCPUs with12 cores that may be a worthy upgrade to my current setup. I don't think CPU is my current bottleneck - but certainly I/O is and my next server I would like to have M.2 SSD for VM storage / ZFS cache.
Are there any good/cheap AMD Ryzen9 motherboards that have remote management / BMC / IPMI that you would recommend? The ones I have found are for AMD EPYC processors and over $400 for a single board. That's too rich for my tastes atm.