Transceiver "standards"

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Form Factor Speed QSFP+ 40 Gbps QSFP28 100 Gbps QSFP56 200 Gbps QSFP-DD 400+ Gbps  

SuperMicro IPMIView

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IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a pseudo standard for managing, accessing, and configuring servers.  Companies like Supe...

Firmware updates of Dell PowerConnect 6224/6248 switches

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Who fools around with switches that are over 15 years old?  Well I do!  They still work, and when basic 1gb connectivity is all that is need...

Dell PowerEdge r520 dual vs single CPU

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 If one every decides to add a 2nd CPU to a Dell PowerEdge r520, besides the CPU, CPU sink, extra system fan, one also needs a different PCI...

Dell PowerEdge: unable to Web into iDRAC after upgrades

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  After upgrading Dell x40 PowerEdge servers the web interface for IDRAC may give the above error.  Fortunately one can still get at it usin...

VMware iSER iSCSI targets showing up as "unconsummed"

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I was swapping out an ESXi host, and I couldn't get our iSCSI target to mount.  The paths and targets would show up, however it would sa...

Windows 2019 Software RAID

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 Just a quick test...This server has U.2 Samsung MZWLL1T6HEHP NVMe drives, a fresh install of Windows 2019 server.  For the first test I too...

SuperMicro servers featuring PCIe 5.0 and 200gbps NICs

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 Hot off of the factory floor!  SuperMicro ASG-1115S-NE316R AMD Epyc 9004 series CPU e3.s form factor drives.  For the record I dislike this...

SuperMicro AI GPU Server

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  SuperMicro ARS-111GL-NHR  G1SM-G Nvidia A02 72 Core GH GraceHopper 3.4ghz CPU 16896 GPU cores https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/mothe...

ARM Processors! LOTS of them!

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  Additions to the datacenter!  ARM based servers by Gigabyte. Gigabyte Server w/ dual Ampere CPU's Anandtech's article on Ampere CP...