{"id":568,"date":"2013-01-03T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2013-01-03T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:23:07","slug":"esxi-5-1-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"ESXi 5.1 Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

My new ESXi (5.1) server:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This will help with pending research for 2013<\/p>\n

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NOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reasons behind going with the Xeon-E3 CPU (instead of Xeon-E5 or AMD-G34 ) :<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Price… E5 CPUs are “premium” priced. The E5 did more than required (don’t need x16 PCI-e, nor 8 DIMM slots). Why pay the premium price for unused features? A fast E3 appeared to cover CPU\/processing requirements. And, a good SuperMicro board provided sufficient PCIe slots (2 @ 8x and 2 @ 4x)<\/li>\n
  2. Following apparent standards. Though I wanted a AMD-G34… (quad memory channel, reasonably priced, etc.), most of my clients have Xeon servers. I needed something “standard” for testing\/benchmarks.<\/li>\n
  3. Though preferring dual CPU server motherboards – the E3 doesn’t support 2x configuration. And, the 2\u00a0 x E5 setup is too expensive given all that extra horsepower just sits idle most of the time. I also wanted something that doesn’t heat up the office during the summer.<\/li>\n
  4. Saving $$$ with the E3 supported rationalization for the more expensive RAID controller. The bottleneck on this server WILL NOT<\/strong> be I\/O! The new RAID controller is fast. <\/strong>I’ll also be adding a 2x Intel Gigabit NIC for network pass-through (though motherboard does have two adapters).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Configuration<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    ESXi:<\/strong>
    \n5.1.0<\/p>\n

    Motherboard:<\/strong>
    \nSupermicro X9SCM-IIF-O
    \nBIOS version: R 2.0a (shipped with current) – NOTE: VT-d is turned “off” by default (switched this “on” via BIOS-config)<\/p>\n

    CPU:
    \nXeon E3-1270 V2 3.5GHz<\/p>\n

    RAM:
    \n4 x Samsung DDR3-1600 8GB\/1Gx72 ECC M391B1G73BH0-CK0<\/p>\n

    RAID:
    \nLSI 9260-8i<\/p>\n

    Hard Drives:
    \n2 x WD VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX 600GB
    \n2 x WD VelociRaptor WD5000HHTZ 500GB<\/p>\n

    Case:
    \nLIAN LI PC-7HX Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Bench-test<\/strong>
    \n(notice that I missed 4 pins on the power connector? The board booted regardless…)<\/p>\n

    \"e3_build\"<\/a><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Installed<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"SuperMicroLianLee\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My new ESXi (5.1) server: This will help with pending research for 2013   NOTES: Reasons behind going with the Xeon-E3 CPU (instead of Xeon-E5 or AMD-G34 ) : Price… E5 CPUs are “premium” priced. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}