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

[Dan Linder]

Thanks for all the advice.  When I'm finally ready and (if) I find that I
need more 'oomph' I'll look at buying a processor off eBay/Amazon (or
someone here).

Now if I could just figure out a way to make the "UEFI Initialization" take
less than 3 eons to complete during each reboot. :)

Thanks!

Dan

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Jay Bendon <jaybocc2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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