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Intel Pro/1000 PT Desktop Adapter – Cheap ESXi Compatibility

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:14:07 +0000

One question I get asked often is how to make a desktop PC ESXi ready. That question invariably differs from case to case (and I cannot answer all questions) but one of the best bits of advice I can give is to make sure you have at least one networks adapter supported in ESXi. I [...] Related posts:

ASUS P9X79 WS X79 LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E Workstation Motherboard Review

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:14:44 +0000

Today we are looking at the ASUS P9X79 WS which is a workstation motherboard built around Intel’s X79 chipset and the LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors. Unlike the previously reviewed ASUS P9X79, this is a higher-end part, with a lot more functionality built-in. Unlike the base model, the P9X79 WS contains workstation-centric features such as additional PCIe [...] Related posts:

Dell Silicom PEG6I Six Port Gigabit (GigE) Intel 82571EB Network Adapter

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:14:04 +0000

I have used many Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad network adapters to provide extra ports in servers for a few years now. They are well supported Intel 82571GB-based cards that are re-branded by Dell and other vendors. The big advantage to cards like these are that they allow users to add a lot of network ports [...] Related posts:

Installing a Corsair H100 Cooler in a Carbide 500R Chassis

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:05:42 +0000

In my main workstation I have used a custom water cooling loop with a triple 120mm fan radiator since the Intel Core i7-920 came out. That loop is great, but requires a lot of maintenance. Not only that, the setup requires a lot of tubing inside the chassis so I decided to look at some [...] Related posts:

Amazon S3 Storage Getting Slightly Less Expensive

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:00:40 +0000

For those that store information on Amazon’s S3 cloud storage platform, good news, it is going to be a bit less expensive in the future to store things. Amazon has reduced pricing starting 1 February 2012 for the first 1PB of storage. Over the first PB, storage prices remain the same. Now with all of [...] Related posts:

Intel Xeon E5-2400 and E5-2600 Series Processor Comparison with List Prices

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:21 +0000

Intel will be launching the Xeon E5 series in the near future. The Xeon E5-1600 series CPUs are single socket only with three parts that look like their Core i7 desktop counterparts and have either four our six cores plus Hyper Threading. The high-end will be taken by the Xeon E5-4600 series, with the ’4′ [...] Related posts:

Xeon E5 Sandy Bridge-EP Performance Preview with 8 Cores 16 Threads

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:09:29 +0000

Over the past few weeks I have had the chance to play with some 8 core 16 thread Intel Sandy Bridge-EP based Xeon samples which will ultimately be part of the Xeon E5-2600 lineup. I will say that the turbo frequencies seem to be working a little strangely on these chips, but the one I [...] Related posts:

ASUS P9X79 Sandy Bridge-E Motherboard Review Socket LGA 2011

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:27:25 +0000

Today we are looking at the ASUS P9X79 motherboard for Intel’s LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors. It is quite likely that this board gets paired with one of two types of chips, first the Intel Core i7-3930K or a lower-clocked Xeon E5 CPU. As we have covered previously ASUS does a great job of segmenting [...] Related posts:

Supermicro CSE-502L-200B mITX/ mATX 1U Atom Server Chassis Review

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:49:43 +0000

For the Supermciro X7SPE-HF-D525 pfSense appliance I discussed in the linked post I of course wanted a chassis for my appliance and decided to purchase the CSE-502L-200B for just under $70 (see ebay and NewEgg). Oftentimes one does not need a massive chassis for a server. Frankly, with all of the mITX and mATX [...] Related posts:

Supermicro X7SPE-HF-D525 8GB DDR3, IPMI, pfSense, FreeNAS, unRAID, Linux and Power Consumption

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:04:31 +0000

I just wanted to update everyone on the Supermicro X7SPA-HF-D525 and X7SPE-HF-D525 review that was posted earlier as I have had a bit more time running the unit, especially as a pfsense appliance. Areas that will be looked at here are a higher-than-spec memory limit (4GB is not the max!), power consumption, and a word [...] Related posts: