[olug] Looking for a larger server, not necessiarly new.

[Jay Bendon]

Just need to match the stepping is all.  If yours is an SLBV3 and you
acquire another SLBV3 you'll be fine.  This processor has 3 pre-production
steppings, but you're most likely to just encounter the production stepping
(SLBV3) in the wild.

--Jay

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:

> ......I can let you borrow an X5650 to prove my point and or I'll trade
> you 2 L5520 for your 1 working X5650.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Aric Aasgaard
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 12:01 AM
> To: 'Dan Linder' <dan at linder.org>
> Cc: 'Omaha Linux User Group' <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Looking for a larger server, not necessiarly new.
>
> My recommendation would be to just buy a CPU off eBay with the same S
> code.   You don’t need to buy a “matched pair”.
>
>
>
> From: Dan Linder [mailto:dan at linder.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 10:17 PM
> To: Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com>
> Cc: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Looking for a larger server, not necessiarly new.
>
>
>
> Thanks for all the input. I was able to find an IBM x3650 m3 with two Xeon
> CPUs X5650 @ 2.67GHz (Stepping: 000206C2, Microcode Revision: 00000015),
> along with a few sticks of RAM.
>
> The bad news is that one of the CPUs is bad. :(
>
> I've priced on line and the X5650 CPUs are $90 each and I'd need to buy
> two to ensure the stepping and microcode are sure to work with each other.
>
> Anyone have an old server of any make with two x5600 CPUs in it you want
> to part with?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com <mailto:
> aric at omahax.com> > wrote:
>
> You can do what I am doing and get a Dell C6100 XS23-TY3 off eBay.   It is
> a good platform for playing with virtualization.  I put cheap 10G mezzanine
> cards in the nodes with short cheap twinax sfp+ patch cables.  I made one
> node FreeNAS, one pfSense, and two Xenserver.  I got 160GB WD velociraptor
> drives for about $10 each when looking for SSD to 3.5 adapters for mirrored
> node boot drives and or MSSQL log files.  I got 6, 5TB 7200RPM 128MB cache
> Toshiba desktop drives for $140 each for RAIDZ2 on the FreeNAS.  I put 48GB
> of RAM in each node for a total of 192GB.  I plan on using a reverse proxy
> http cache on the pfSense node.  I probably have about $2000 into it.
> .........but hey education, you could easily spend that in a year at a
> college bookstore.  I planned to put it in a cheap 2U colo spot, it is
> wired up without a switch.  If you just want one to play with at your home
> you can probably just get a C1100 for much less.  I have a C1100 currently
> in production running Xenserver with over a year of uptime.
>
>
>
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