I checked the ESXi hardware compatibility - here's the S80XX series for TyanWow, that’s a bizarre answer! Good luck Tyan, didn’t realize they were Windows and Linux exclusive.
Model | CPU Series | Supported Releases |
S8026 | AMD EPYC 7001 Series | ESXi 7.0. 6.7 U3 |
S8026GM2NRE | AMD EPYC 7001 Series | ESXi 7.0. 6.7 U3 |
S8036GM2NE | AMD EPYC 7002/7Fx2/7Hx2 Series | ESXi 7.0. 6.7 U3 |
I searched twitter and found a reply from Tyan Computer (@tyan): It said "S8030 only supports M.2 PCIE3.0".loaded centos on a pcie 3.0 m.2 and left the pcie 4.0 m.2 (with vmware on it) in the second slot. the good news is that it looks like the m.2 slots support pcie 4.0:
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I really haven't found anything wrong with this board at least for my weird use case!
They support pci gen4 at 4x lanes each.I searched twitter and found a reply from Tyan Computer (@tyan): It said "S8030 only supports M.2 PCIE3.0".
What a bad news and I don't know why.
Could you confirm this?They support pci gen4 at 4x lanes each.
Thanks! I'll check it when my board arrived.I did confirm in a previous post. Run the cmd lspci - vv and check the lnkcap And lnksta.
I have bought a similar cable with SATA power from taobao.com, with a price about $30 (with shipping fee, I'm in China), and it works well for me.The Tyan FRU-CS-1230/Slim SAS 8i to 2* U.2 (NVMe) cable is now available from retail (e.g. Acme Micro), the price is a steep $75. With shipping and taxes, it's an eye watering $95
Update: Purchased one and here's the pic. It comes with a Molex connector for power and not the usual SATA power connector (Enterprise NVMe drives will take 3.3v and 12v). Seems high quality and right now I'm looking for some refurb/second hand NVMe drives to test this out with.
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Updated IPMI - best done via the OOB update scripts from a separate computer. Takes a long time to apply AND a longer time to boot back into IPMI. Note that this does NOT affect your normal operation. My ESXi was running fine during the update and the VMs were continuously reachable.New IPMI firmware, V3.00. TYAN® Computer - Motherboards S8030 S8030GM4NE-2T
Updated BMC on one of my boards then tried to update to bios v1.01, same brokenness as earlier, boot hangs at post code "BAAD"3. Fix issue that failed to update BIOS FW via BMC Web UI