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Buying Used Supermicro 24bay Chassis
I am in the process of putting together a storage server/moving my current server into a rack enclosure and have been looking for a suitable chassis. The Norco 4220 and 4224 have been at the top of my...
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32 GB 4 x 8 GB Kingston Memory KVR13E9/9HM & Xeon E3-1240V2
Hello, have 4 new unopened 8GB sticks of KVR13E/8HM ( good for SM x9 series 1155 boards ), plus others I am sure. On Ebay link above, offer free postage to US, UK, NZ for forum members and Australia....
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Anyone used Marvel WAM for ZIL ???
Was browsing for a cheap zil candidate on ebay and found this Anyone used this before ?? looks interesting and specs looks very good with decent pricing.
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DL380 G6 with multiple LSI controllers POSTing but not booting from a drive.
Hi, I have my DL380 G6 I have been using as a SAN for my SSDs and it has been running fine for a month or so. I have now attached my Dell MD1000 disk shelf to a second LSI controller and it will now...
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Colocation in So. Cal area?
Are there any "affordable" colo's in the LA area? "Affordable" as in similar prices to Joe's & DataShack Not quite sure you can use "affordable" & So. Cal. in the same sentence :eek:
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How can I revert SSD to original (empty) condition?
OMG, I just made one stupid thing: enthusiastic over my raid-controller and SSDs I just plugged them in my server, created raid-array, fomated, loaded my VMs, started. Just after a few days I realised...
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[6] 9G0812P1F041 fans.
I bought 6 fans on ebay intending to the fan mod of my C6100, but I had to sell the server. Therefore, I never got to do the mod. Looking for $30 + shipping. Thanks
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ATX-sized IPMI motherboard
I have a workbench that I use to do drive recovery, data migrations, component testing, etc... was looking for a new affordable motherboard suggestions. It's mounted in one of the open chassis systems,...
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EMC ViPR Free?
A co-worker just sent me this: http://www.emc.com/getvipr Looks like it is free? No Xen virtualbox or h-v though.
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Quanta LB4M 48-Port Gigabit Switch Discussion
I started this separate thread (per request) for future reference and discussion of the Quanta LB4M 48p gbE + 2x 10gbE sfp+ switch and this old ebay thread is the source. I picked up three Quanta LB4M...
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Dell C6100 and ConnectX-2 Mezzanine card runnin at pci-e x4 not x8
Well I am having trouble with finding any answers to this problem. I have a number of the ConnectX-2 c6100 mezzanine cards that I have set up and working wonderfully in Windows Server 2012 r2 but the...
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Help: Testing Mellanox ConnectX-3 - not connecting
I need to find a picture host but here is the config: Physical environment Server with a ConnectX-3 354A card (IB + Ethernet one) FDR QSFP Cable connecting Port 0 to Port 1 on the card Link established...
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Operon EE C32 idle power
Going to building a new AIO ESXi box for home to play around with and to also have all my home storage. Was going to go with an E3 V3 xeon but then saw the cheap prices on C32 socket opteron EE...
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OmniOS/OpenIndiana running from Thumb Drive
I have decided I want to switch away from FreeNAS for my ZFS storage due to the fact that even though there is a CrashPlan plugin, it does not work. Being that my wife will be scanning all her family...
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Qlogic cu9024 Switch management module?
I just got a new Qlogic 9024 DDR infiniband switch which does not apparently have the management module installed. Does anyone have one laying around they would like to get rid of? Or even a dead...
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WTB: LSI RAID must have: 8i, raid 5, 4tb disk support, have bbu
looking for a half hight (with low bracket) LSI based card, reflash ok. must support: 8i raid 5 have support for 4tb disks must have bbu support, prefered if it already has one included. going into my...
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ConnectX-2 & Win Server 2012 R2
So I tried to install the Mellanox OFED packages (the WIn 2012 r2 ones) on a fresh Windows Server 2012 r2 Essentials box (A C6100 node) and it hung mid install. I tried with both a C6100 IB mezzanine...
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Have Samsung 840 Pro 512GB, Want 840 Pro 128GB
If anyone has four 128GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD drives that they wish would merge into one big 512GB 840 Pro drive, I may be able to help. I have a 512GB drive that I'll trade for four of your 128GB...
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Current Best bang for buck 55XX or 56XX cpu ?..
Hi, I am building a game server (DayZ) from one of my C6100 nodes and the advice is that CPU power is better then masses of ram. Fearing my poor L5520s may crumple under the weight, what is the best...
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ZFS advice on a new Omnios+Napp-it backup server
Hello all, i am building a new low power, low cost backupserver. This build will consist of the following hardware: 1. Asrock c2550d4i mainboard with 2 x 8GB mem and 12 SATA 2. Toshiba PA4293E-1HN0 3TB...
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