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Doing switched Infiniband on the cheap?
Hey Y'all, I've recently found this site and it's great to see a bunch of gear junkies doing crazy things with cool kit in their homes! I've recently become enamored with Infiniband and am looking to...
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Home mini Data Center
Hello everybody. I'm a new user from Spain, and while I was looking for info for my Setup, I've found this excellent forum, with the incredible setups showed here. I'm currently ending my Computer...
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Help to diagnose random beeping coming from the motherboard (probably)?
Hi, I have a VM server which has started to randomly beep during operation. It doesn't beep during boot or post an error messages at that time. I initially thought it might be due to heat -...
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SYS-5018A-MLTN4 pfsense
there has been some discussion about a sys-5018a-ftn4 based pfsense box, but i haven't seen anything on the SYS-5018A-MLTN4. the former is an 8 core 20w tdp soc, while the latter is 4 core 14w tdp soc....
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Anyone tried Nexenta 4 yet
Just checking to see if anyone have tried the newly released Nexenta 4 ?? If so what you think of it ?
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USB3 pcie card, passthrough in ESXi 5.5
Does anyone have recommendation for a card for this? Or is this a known compatibility issue waiting to happen? Seeing random threads on not-so-similar setups that make this seem harder than passing the...
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Brocade CNA's
Anyone have any experience with Brocade 1020 CNA's? I've found some sources for picking them up as cheap as $90 each, which seems pretty good for a 2 port 10GbE capable NIC. Best I can tell it looks...
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STH Colocation 2014 Update Thread and Downtime Notice
Just so everyone is on the same page - expect some intermittent STH downtime this weekend. Yesterday I shipped the Supermicro 2U Twin platform and the C2750 based pfSense node. Today I am shipping the...
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Supermicro A1SAM-2750F standby/hibernate not possible?
Hello again, is there a chance that someone can tell me if those boards are able to enter standby or hibernate mode? Stupid as I am I ordered one of those, because I fell in love with the idea to run...
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Meet the Chenbro Chassis Management Board
Looks an interesting little board. Might be handy for those wanting to control / manage fans in their chassis etc Chenbro Micom Co., Ltd. Found some cheap ones here in Australia... CN 84H331410 025...
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Guidance for soho network
Greetings, The home network I've run over the years has gradually become my "corportate" network as well. I work exclusively out of the house and find myself needing to increase my network capability....
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10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) Networking - NICs, Switches, etc.
Thread for the discussion of 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is the fastest Ethernet standard for hard-wired local area networks (LANs) since 2005. It crowns the latest in a...
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Using SAN Storage Drawers as JBOD/DAS
So far the search I have done has found that you can use NetApp DS14MK2-AT as local storage using 1 or 2 4G FC controllers to access. But I have not been able to find out if the same is possible for an...
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C2100 mini sas cable to PCIe
I know several folks on this forum have direct info on the c2100. I'll be flashing the H200 into IT mode. I understand the system will not boot once this is completed with the raid card in the storage...
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DIY DELL VRTX
Build’s Name: DIY VRTX - 2 systems in one case (almost silent) Operating System/ Storage Platform: Workstation (OS X) / Server (Proxmox) CPU: 2x Xeon 5520 / 1 x AMD X6 1055T Motherboard: dell C6100 MB...
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Sanity check for new FreeNAS ZFS server before I get out the cheque book
Build’s Name: TBD Operating System/Storage Platform: FreeNAS CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1220 V2 3.10GHz Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-X9SCM-F Chassis: X-Case RM 424 Pro with SAS Expander & SGPIO Backplane...
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WTT/S: 8GB DDR3 1866 non-ECC sticks (12-qty) for 12 8GB DDR3 1600 ECC sticks
Just as the title says: I'd like to trade 8GB DDR3 1866 non-ECC sticks (12-qty) for 12x 8GB DDR3 1600 ECC Registered sticks for use in a SuperMicro x8dte motherboard. The ECC sticks I am looking for...
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Using SAN Storage Drawers as JBOD/DAS
Originally posted in drives but not getting any help/responses. So far the search I have done has found that you can use NetApp DS14MK2-AT as local storage using 1 or 2 4G FC controllers to access. But...
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Checking Hard Drive Health
Ok, I have an HP DL380 G5 running CentOS. Its got 4 drives in Hardware RAID 10. I'm unsure of which RAID Card is in the server - honestly cant remember and I don't have access to it. CCISS is installed...
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FS: Sun Oracle Adaptec 5805 8-Port SAS RAID HBA w/battery
Hi, I have a Sun Oracle 375-3536 RAID carc in perfect working order. It's near the same card as the Adaptec 5805 but with 256MB. It's flashed with the lastest Adaptec 5805 firmware available. Some...
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