nicholasfarmer
Limp Gawd
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- Apr 19, 2007
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Posting here because I assume most of the folks messing with 'Virtual' have their hands in some form of Server class hardware... I know some of the folks that post here frequently are Data center guys. (enjoyed VMworld this year?)
I run a lot of HP and Cisco/Cisco UCS gear at work. Just picked up some Dell vxrack gear (about 100 Rack servers) but corp gear is always legit/supported hardware.
I picked up a T640 server from Dell (for home) and went cheap on RAM, proc etc so I could throw in less expensive 'non-dell' parts in after.
$350 for a 16GB RDIMM is crazy when you can order the same stick from crucial memory for $75-90.
Question please sirs:
Does anyone have any feedback for running 'non Dell' hardware within the Dell platform? Does the idrac complain about non genuine parts? Fail to post? etc.
How about GPUs? GTX1080 instead of legit Grid/Tesla cards. I know about the issue of power, power connectors, cooling etc, but I've seen blog posts about desktop class GPU isn't technically 'supported' server gear within a Dell chassis but some have gotten it to work.
Thoughts, comments, feedback?
Thanks!
Nick.
I run a lot of HP and Cisco/Cisco UCS gear at work. Just picked up some Dell vxrack gear (about 100 Rack servers) but corp gear is always legit/supported hardware.
I picked up a T640 server from Dell (for home) and went cheap on RAM, proc etc so I could throw in less expensive 'non-dell' parts in after.
$350 for a 16GB RDIMM is crazy when you can order the same stick from crucial memory for $75-90.
Question please sirs:
Does anyone have any feedback for running 'non Dell' hardware within the Dell platform? Does the idrac complain about non genuine parts? Fail to post? etc.
How about GPUs? GTX1080 instead of legit Grid/Tesla cards. I know about the issue of power, power connectors, cooling etc, but I've seen blog posts about desktop class GPU isn't technically 'supported' server gear within a Dell chassis but some have gotten it to work.
Thoughts, comments, feedback?
Thanks!
Nick.