We are using the SC512L-260B chassis for our lower end machines, what is a good recommendation for say Dual Opteron or Dual Woodcrest servers?
Looking 1U that will handle 2 drives, but would also like a recommendation for going with 4 drives (would this require 2U?). Hot swap not necessary.
Anyone know where i can find a benchmark that can compare the two processors? Im trying to figure out if a Dual Opteron 275 (Dual-Core) or the Dual Opteron 2212 (Dual-Core) would be better for the money. Or if you have any experiance with the 2 processors can i get your comments on both.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am configuring an environment where several servers are going to boot from iSCSI.
The chassis will not have any local storage.
I am looking for cheap 1U chassis where I can plug in a decent PSU and a Super Micro X8STi-F with an Intel Core i7 proc.
where to buy server chassis in Europe?
View 7 Replies View RelatedCan anyone recommend a good 1U server chassis that is $100 or under?
Preferrably one already with a good/reliable power supply in it. Just something that will handle PentiumD or Athlon AM2 stuff & 2 hard drives.
I've bought a chassis "SuperChassis 512L-260" from Supermicro. Now, I want to install an Intel Mainboard (Intel S3000AHV). It's only a testing server.
Which I/O shield do I need and where I can get it (am I able to change it?)?
Perhaps, I have to use a Supermicro mainboard?
what type of motherboard can fit into a RM215/217 server? We purchased some of these from a Dutch supplier 2 years ago, and they were delivered with Tyan AMD motherboards with S939 CPU's.
These are used for file storage, and are running 3ware 9550-sx controllers. Tasks are only rsyncing, gzipping, and rotating backups. Problem is that this is now happening fast enough with the single Opteron 2Ghz CPU they are carrying.
I want to do something like this;
* Dual Xeon Nocona, 2.8Ghz etc as we have _many_ of these CPU's already
* Dual Opteron 250-252 etc
* If as fast as the Dual Nocona, maybe a Core2 Duo, although not sure what is available w/PCI-X
So, if anyone knows, or can give any ideas, OR has any Nocona-capable motherboards for sale in Amsterdam for sale, please let me know,
BTW I have already tried doing the x2 chip upgrade on one of these, and was not impressed. The motherboard which is in these machines now IIRC is a S8965 Tyan - which has 32 bit PCI slots. I believe one of the problems here is the controller needs a 64 bit PCI slot to sit on, as it's saturating the 32 bit PCI bus.
Disk config is 8 x 750G / 9550-sx - again all I need is
* gzip / tar / move the files around & delete them
* figure 3-4TB of data on each of these boxes
OS - RHEL 5
I am going to buy a new server and I am unsure of which route to take.
Basically the cost is identical for a Dell server with:
1 AMD Operton Dual Core 2.4Ghz
OR
2 AMD Operton Dual Core 2.0Ghz
What is the felling? Does the 4 cores out weight the extra 400 mhz per processor, but only having 2 cores?
The server will be running:
Windows 2003 Standard x32
Plesk 8.2
IIS 6.0 [ Application Pools Setup ]
MySQL
Microsft SQL Express 2005 [ONLY CAN USE 1 CPU/CORE]
MailEnable
Can my applications even handle/utilize four cores?
Im thinking about make littel upgrade. At this time I have Intel Xeon Dual CPU Dual Core Woodcrest 5160 3.0GHz w/4MB L2 cache and I wolud like to change them to: Dual Xeon E5405 Quad Core (Harpertown). The price and other server parameters are almoust the same. When
I change server I will be have better performance?
server is all decided on. Now the processors are my last choice before picking a colo.
But the processors are confusing. There are other posts on here talking about the Dempsey, Woodcrest and the Clovertown. The research I have done on this has told me to stay away from the Dempsey. So not I need to decide between the Woodcrest 5150 (2x 2.0G) and the Clovertown E5320 (4x 1.86G).
Can someone shed some light on this two and explain in plain English which one would be the better of the two? I have read where some people say the Woodcrest would be the better choice and others say the Clovertown would be the better choice. We know the Clovertown has 4 cores and the Woodcrest has 2 cores.
Could someone explain which would be the better choice and why that would be the better choice?
Just saying it had 4 cores does not always mean it is better from what I haver read.
I'm planning on getting a new dedicated server from SoftLayer. I'm interested in the Xeon 5100 or 5300 series. Which one is better:
Dual Processor Quad Core Xeon 5310 - 1.60GHz (Clovertown) - 2 x 8MB cache
or
Dual Processor Dual Core Xeon 5140 - 2.33GHz (Woodcrest) - 2 x 4MB cache
Both cost the same.
Also, I heard that Apache is capable of taking advantage of multi-core processors (such as the dual proc quad core Clovertown) but that cPanel does not compile Apache in a correct way for it to function properly (efficient) on such machines. Is this true? Can this be solved? Does this mean I have to compile Apache manually?
i think to buy a dedicated which processor is better,
for big vbulletin and medium php/mysql sites
1- Intel Xeon Dual CPU Dual Core Woodcrest 5160 3.0GHz w/4MB L2 Cache Per Core
2 - Quad Core Xeon X3353 Processor 2x6M Cache, 2.66GHz, 1333MHz
I understand that the woodcrest is a better processor. Just want people's opinions if it justifies the price.
Here are the configurations we are looking at:
Dual Xeon 3.2 SCSI
2GB of RAM
2 x 73GB SCSI Disk
Cpanel
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$222
or
Dual Intel Woodcrest 5130 Dual Core
4GB of RAM
2 x 146GB, 10K RPM SCSI
cpanel
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$385.00
We host approx 100 sites on a server. 60% are static sites and 40% are ecommerce or sites with a database. Just curious if the performance increase will justify the price on the woodcrest vs the xeon.
Also is $385 a good deal for this setup?
I was talking to a friend tonight and he mentioned that CentOS 32 bit may not support dual Woodcrest 5150 2.66GHZ chips.
I was wondering if there is anyone out there that is using CentOS 32 bit version and is running with 2x Woodcrest 5150 chips or even one of them. I would like to put this myth to rest (I hope) before I have CentOS installed on my server.
I have bought an Intel SR2500LX server chassis with a S5000PAL mainboard running Centos. This system has an active backplane with a LSI MegaRaid chipset.
I'd like to be notified in the case of a drive failure but I'm totally stumped on how to get any monitoring working.
The only raid managment utility Intel supplies is a Java based monstrosity, which needs X-Windows to run and needs to be run continuously in order for the email notification to work.
Web based management can only be used from the same subnet as the server, so that's not very useful either.
I've contacted Intel support which gave me the advice to reboot the server and use the Bios utility if I want to check the Raid arrays consistency . Needless to say I'm very dissapointed, this server has every redundancy feature you can think of but it seems impossible to monitor the Raid under Linux.
Does anybody have experience with the Chassis and Raid monitoring under Linux?
Has anyone been using a 1333 FSB Core 2 Duo board in the SC512L that will fit without modification? Looking for something for mass use, I know some of the server boards will fit fine, wondering about some of the ASUS or Foxconn boards.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIts been asked many times, please help me decide a new server and we'll keep this topic limited between only 3 configs in question.
I've been using 2 dedicated servers
2.8Ghz dual xeon.
Now its time for a new one. Iam going with Softlayer this time and need your kind suggestion for which of these can handle a good amount of shared hosting traffic.
A).Dual Processor Single Core Xeon - 3.00GHz (Irwindale) - 2 x 2MB cache - HT
Second Processor
Single Core Xeon - 3.00GHz (Irwindale) - 2 x 2MB cache - HT second_processor
B). Processor Dual Core Xeon 5130 - 2.00GHz (Woodcrest) - 1 x 4MB cache
C).Single Processor Quad Core Xeon 3220 - 2.40GHz (Kentsfield) - 2 x 4MB cache
My choice is (A) the Irwindale one.
When it comes to CPUs I am pretty clueless, so excuse any silly comments here.
I am little confused by the performance benefits vs price of quad core and duale core processors. I am hoping some of you experts can clarify this for me.
For example, on newegg they have the following:
Intel Xeon 5160 Woodcrest 3.0GHz for $877
and the
Intel Xeon E5345 Clovertown 2.33GHz for $879
Now though the Clovertown has a lower processing speed, I get to run 4 processes simultaneously and have an aggregate total processing power of 9.32 ghz.
On the other hand, the Woodcrest proc allows me to run 2 processes simultaneously and I have an aggregate total processing power of 6 ghz.
Now I am probably reading this wrong, but why would you purchase the woodcrest when the price is essentially the same and benefits are much greater?
On a last note, do programs such as mysql and apache 1.3 take advantage of the multiprocessors?
wondering in general and specifically for woodcrest vs conroe and kentsfield vs clovertown
I can't find either
a) an explanation as to why the server cpu's are superior to the desktop equivilents
or
b) benchmarks comparing them.
even mainstream hardware sites like tomshardware has benchmarks for server hdd's, but not server cpu's for some reason.
apart from the ability to use dual cpu's in a single machine, what is the advantage? what warrants the price difference? are there benchmarks available anywhere to compare comparable models? (example, woodcrest xeon 5150 2.66ghz vs conroe c2d e6700 2.66ghz)
How much difference is there between the 248 and 270. If I upgrade from 248 to the 270 will I notice much difference?
View 13 Replies View RelatedHow much difference is there between the 248 and 270. If I upgrade from 248 to the 270 will I notice much difference? 270 is $50 more. Worth it?
View 0 Replies View RelatedIt's only 1.8 Ghz but i like the 2x 1mb L2 cache. how's it stack up against Intel's server chip? Can i use desktop mobo with this chip since it use AM2 socket or do i need a server mobo?
View 2 Replies View RelatedJust recently while browsing Newegg and Ebay, I realized I could build a great server consisting of Dual Opteron 270's to 280's with Dual HDD's, Great Asus 1U Barebones Setup , 4GB of Ram for about $650 if I went with used CPU's
Now I don't know about you, but that sounds like quite the bang for the buck. Also considering I have an aggregate bandwidth commitment, and only pay $50 per server I add to my rack, it really isn't a huge downside to say build three of these rather then one Harpertown setup.
Well at least this is my opinion. I was curious to see what others opinions are. I figure with the up and coming cloud technology, and the high prices of new technology, this would be a good investment, but do you think it is worth it to build outdated hardware? Would I be better off just building higher spec servers? How do these servers stack up to some of the newer technology? Are they still considered poewrful?
Anyways just thought I would get some opinions before I went and bought a bunch of outdated hardware
I got new server
AMD Opteron 1216
4 GB RAM
cpanel/whm
it's completely new and no domains
just thought what would be the best my.cnf and http.conf settings for this box
Assuming that in feature there will be sites with forum databases
Both are using 2GB RAM with sata disks. Will run CentOS on it for normal shared hosting.
Which one do you suggest?
There always seems to be some Quality issues with the Nvidia chipsets, so I was looking at getting some feedback on boards if any of you have been using anything else yet.
Normally I only use Tyan for server builds but the only alternative to Nvidia chipset is the Thunder h2000M (S3992-E).
I'm looking for stability #1, performance #2
I'm looking for something non Nvidia but simular to the "TYAN S4989WG2NR Quad 1207(F)" as far as features.
Does anyone know how a Pentium D 2.8ghz would stand up to a Dual Processor Opteron 246, when running gameservers?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI run a large forum and I currently use dual Amd Opteron 248 with 2 gigs. I am looking am moving server to Canada and I am looking at Iweb and they don't offer opterons. Do any of these compare to a my opterons? I also plan on adding 2 more gigs of ram.
My options at Iweb
Core2 Duo 2.4GHz (800MHz FSB)
— Add $45.00 /month
Core2 Duo 3.0GHz (1333MHz FSB)
— Add $70.00 /month
Core2 Quad 2.4GHz
— Add $80.00 /month
Core2 Quad 2.66GHz
Current:
Processor #1 Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Processor #1 Name: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248
Processor #1 speed: 2211.151 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 1024 KB
Processor #2 Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Processor #2 Name: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248
Processor #2 speed: 2211.151 MHz
Processor #2 cache size: 1024 KB
which CPU are you going with? which one is the strongest and which one is the weakest?
about the power usage, I guess we can compare E6400 and X2-4200 only? which one is using less power?
I just purchased my first Opteron 248 (normally use 170's). The reboot time is about 20 minutes. The 170's reboot in under 5 minutes.
I watched it reboot through IPMI and it says:
PXE-M0F No DHCP or ProxyDHCP offers were received.
PXE-M0F: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent
Then it retries to connect to DHCP over and over for about 15 minutes before finally starting the normal boot process.
Is this normal? The data center is telling me it is, but I find it hard to believe anything would take that long to boot on a new system.
I'm considering two hardware options for a server.
2 x AMD Opteron 265 (1.8 GHz clock speed x 4)
2 GB ram, 2 x 160 GB RAID 1, Windows 2008
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2.6 GHz clock speed x 2)
2 GB ram, 2 x 160 GB RAID 1, Windows 2008
Which hardware should be better to run a Mail server, IIS, MySQL and a few other http based services?
The X2 5000+ is around $8 more than the Dual Opteron 265 per month.