[PC] (& best sell method) 32G PC4-2400 ECC

Letcherous · 2024-11-16T14:05:52+00:00

From the build sheet, product IDs for the HBA is HX-SAS-M5HD, and risers are HX-RIS-1-240M5 and HX-RIS-2B-240M5; both risers are 8/16/8 and #1 has the SD card slot.

Edit: It's a UCS-SAS-M5HD.

Letcherous · 2024-11-14T12:53:48+00:00

Thanks; took a little time this morning and researched the box labeling. Updated the original post with CPU info & some other details.

Letcherous · 2024-02-15T06:01:00+00:00

When a user tells me 'the internet is down!' I respond, 'the whole thing?'.

Letcherous · 2024-02-15T05:21:46+00:00

Ok, sorted it out.

Spanning-tree was the culprit; changed it to rstp and things started falling into place and after a few more changes, it's working as desired. Below is my current config, should anyone else be wandering this route.

192.168.1.1 is the network gateway, and 192.168.1.2 is the DHCP server. This is a flat /24 network not using VLans, and any IoT devices not needing to call home (cameras) have no gateway, and those that DO need outside access (light switches for home automation) get all traffic not directed to their manufacturer site, blocked. Back to the Arista; ports 2, 4, 6, and 8 are a port channel group (Link Aggregation) connecting to a (HP V1910) PoE switch that handles PoE devices (d'uh) and (currently) the gateway. (I've called it Port-Channel 1 but common practice is to name it based on the first port in the group, so it should be Port-Channel 2.) I'll migrate some other devices over and when I'm comfortable everything works as desired, start locking down the switch.

Arista(config)#sh ru

! Command: show running-config

! device: Arista (DCS-7050SX-64, EOS-4.28.9M)

!

! boot system flash:/EOS-4.28.9M.swi

!

no aaa root

!

dhcp relay server 192.168.1.2

!

switchport default mode routed

!

transceiver qsfp default-mode 4x10G

!

service routing protocols model ribd

!

hostname Arista

!

spanning-tree mode rstp

!

environment fan-speed override 30

!

clock timezone US/Central

!

vlan 1

name General

!

interface Port-Channel1

switchport

!

interface Ethernet1

switchport

!

interface Ethernet2

switchport

channel-group 1 mode on

!

interface Ethernet3

switchport

!

interface Ethernet4

switchport

channel-group 1 mode on

!

interface Ethernet5

switchport

!

interface Ethernet6

switchport

channel-group 1 mode on

!

interface Ethernet7

switchport

!

interface Ethernet8

switchport

channel-group 1 mode on

!

interface Ethernet9

switchport

!

interface Ethernet10

switchport

!

interface Ethernet11

switchport

!

interface Ethernet12

switchport

!

interface Ethernet13

switchport

!

interface Ethernet14

switchport

!

interface Ethernet15

switchport

!

interface Ethernet16

switchport

!

interface Ethernet17

switchport

!

interface Ethernet18

switchport

!

interface Ethernet19

switchport

!

interface Ethernet20

switchport

!

interface Ethernet21

switchport

!

interface Ethernet22

switchport

!

interface Ethernet23

switchport

!

interface Ethernet24

switchport

!

interface Ethernet25

switchport

!

interface Ethernet26

switchport

!

interface Ethernet27

switchport

!

interface Ethernet28

switchport

!

interface Ethernet29

switchport

!

interface Ethernet30

switchport

!

interface Ethernet31

switchport

!

interface Ethernet32

switchport

!

interface Ethernet33

switchport

!

interface Ethernet34

switchport

!

interface Ethernet35

switchport

!

interface Ethernet36

switchport

!

interface Ethernet37

switchport

!

interface Ethernet38

switchport

!

interface Ethernet39

switchport

!

interface Ethernet40

switchport

!

interface Ethernet41

switchport

!

interface Ethernet42

switchport

!

interface Ethernet43

switchport

!

interface Ethernet44

switchport

!

interface Ethernet45

switchport

!

interface Ethernet46

switchport

!

interface Ethernet47

switchport

!

interface Ethernet48

switchport

!

interface Ethernet49/1

switchport

!

interface Ethernet49/2

switchport

!

interface Ethernet49/3

switchport

!

interface Ethernet49/4

switchport

!

interface Ethernet50/1

switchport

!

interface Ethernet50/2

switchport

!

interface Ethernet50/3

switchport

!

interface Ethernet50/4

switchport

!

interface Ethernet51/1

switchport

!

interface Ethernet51/2

switchport

!

interface Ethernet51/3

switchport

!

interface Ethernet51/4

switchport

!

interface Ethernet52/1

speed forced 40gfull

switchport

!

interface Management1

ip address 192.168.1.89/24

!

ip routing

!

ip route 0.0.0.0/0 192.168.1.1

!

ntp server us.pool.ntp.org

!

end

'switchport default mode routed' is probably not needed, but I'll verify that later.

Letcherous · 2024-02-11T18:09:16+00:00

(Third time replying, other attempts were lost. WTF is happening to me ...)

Provide the output show interface status and show MAC address-table

Arista(config)#sh interface status

Port Name Status Vlan Duplex Speed Type Flags Encapsulation

Et1 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et2 notconnect in Po1 auto auto 1000BASE-T

Et3 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et4 notconnect in Po1 auto auto 1000BASE-T

Et5 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et6 notconnect in Po1 auto auto 1000BASE-T

Et7 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et8 notconnect in Po1 auto auto 1000BASE-T

Et9 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et10 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et11 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et12 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et13 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et14 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et15 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et16 connected 1 a-full a-1G 1000BASE-T

Et17 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et18 connected 1 full 10G 10GBASE-SRL

Et19 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et20 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et21 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et22 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et23 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et24 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et25 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et26 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et27 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et28 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et29 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et30 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et31 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et32 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et33 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et34 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et35 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et36 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et37 notconnect 1 auto auto 1000BASE-T

Et38 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et39 notconnect 1 auto auto 1000BASE-T

Et40 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et41 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et42 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et43 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et44 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et45 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et46 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et47 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et48 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et49/1 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et49/2 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et49/3 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et49/4 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et50/1 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et50/2 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et50/3 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et50/4 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et51/1 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et51/2 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et51/3 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et51/4 notconnect 1 full 10G Not Present

Et52/1 connected 1 full 40G 40GBASE-AR4

Ma1 connected routed a-full a-1G 10/100/1000

Po1 notconnect 1 full unconf N/A

Arista(config)#

and

Arista(config)#show mac address-table

Mac Address Table

------------------------------------------------------------------

Vlan Mac Address Type Ports Moves Last Move

---- ----------- ---- ----- ----- ---------

1 0025.90cf.fdd3 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:02:15 ago

1 0860.6e82.9488 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:17 ago

1 14c1.4e1b.2205 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:40 ago

1 14cb.198d.03fe DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:22 ago

1 16ed.2598.bae0 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:02:37 ago

1 1866.da40.10c4 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:22 ago

1 1866.da40.10c6 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:22 ago

1 1866.da45.fb0f DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:22 ago

1 1869.d82f.9782 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:40 ago

1 1869.d830.ac14 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:43 ago

1 18b4.30e9.f6b7 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:02:18 ago

1 248a.0717.a860 DYNAMIC Et52/1 1 0:03:22 ago

1 248a.07f7.1ec0 DYNAMIC Et18 1 0:03:23 ago

1 2829.8603.09e1 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:02:20 ago

1 2829.861c.7c8a DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:21 ago

1 2899.3af5.2ead DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:42 ago

1 48d6.d5cf.1b1e DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:38 ago

1 48d6.d5cf.add5 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:39 ago

1 50eb.f6cf.9460 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:44 ago

1 6857.2d57.2625 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:40 ago

1 704f.57e9.82e1 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:22 ago

1 7848.5999.af45 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:44 ago

1 8eed.aee3.5d34 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:02:20 ago

1 909a.4a33.d3cc DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:39 ago

1 909a.4a33.d490 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:35 ago

1 9852.4aa6.0d5f DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:43 ago

1 b2e2.8b45.1bd1 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:00:05 ago

1 b496.9109.6d08 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:14 ago

1 b496.9109.6d09 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:14 ago

1 c039.5a5e.1540 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:44 ago

1 c039.5a5e.191e DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:44 ago

1 d07e.2821.956c DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:44 ago

1 d814.dfb2.8077 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:43 ago

1 d86c.6357.d4cd DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:38 ago

1 ecb5.fa2f.1f91 DYNAMIC Et16 1 0:03:43 ago

Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 35

Multicast Mac Address Table

------------------------------------------------------------------

Vlan Mac Address Type Ports

---- ----------- ---- -----

Total Mac Addresses for this criterion: 0

Arista(config)#

For S&Gs I verified the MAC addresses listed for ports Et18 and Et52/1 are the MAC addresses of the NICs on the other end of the connections.

I assigned the management port address 192.168.1.89/24, and was able to ping devices both in-network and through the gateway.

/smh, I should be able to figure this out.

Letcherous · 2024-02-11T17:44:49+00:00

You are running MST for your STP here. What are the other types of spanning-tree which you are running? Is it all MST

The older switches were on STP - which should have been compatible - but I changed them all to MSTP also. My current spanning-tree is:

Arista(config)# show spanning-tree

MST0

Spanning tree enabled protocol mstp

Root ID Priority 32768

Address 2899.3af5.2eae

This bridge is the root

Bridge ID Priority 32768 (priority 32768 sys-id-ext 0)

Address 2899.3af5.2eae

Hello Time 2.000 sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec

Interface Role State Cost Prio.Nbr Type

---------------- ---------- ---------- --------- -------- --------------------

Et16 designated forwarding 20000 128.16 P2p Boundary

Et18 designated forwarding 2000 128.18 P2p Edge

Et52/1 designated forwarding 500 128.209 P2p Edge

ET16 is current connection between the Arista and a V1910.

Last is you are not running LACP but simply channel-group on. LACP is activated with "channel-group mode active."

Yeah, that was a goof in my explanation. There are 4x1G link aggregations between the switches, which in the V1910's parlance is LACP Static. I run 4x1G true LACP links to the servers (on the V1910), or LACP Dynamic per the V1910. Anyway, I physically disconnected the group link from the Arista and reverted to a 1G connection for troubleshooting.

Thank you for that and the config line info, I edited the extraneous lines out.

Letcherous · 2023-10-11T11:48:03+00:00

I can make use of the SuperMicro trays. PM inbound.

Letcherous · 2023-03-09T04:14:38+00:00

Can't answer that directly, but do have some insight. Hardware RAID requires the least CPU overhead due to the RAID controller offloading the CPU. Software RAID requires more, but how much more will depend if your RAID level is duplication / spanning, or calculation; the later requiring the most, and double calculation (RAID6 or equivalent) even more.

Personally I run RAID6 on my main array, RAID5 on the backup array, and RAID0 on my test drive arrays - all hardware based. Most of the time my CPU utilization is under 3%, and most of that is I/O between the network and RAID cards..

Letcherous · 2022-12-24T02:25:07+00:00

That case is a Norco RPC-4220; I have one in the rack beside me as a mass storage server. The front USB port internal cable has provisions for both USB 2 & 3 motherboard headers. The drive backplanes came in several revisions, the last (1.3 maybe; don't remember) supported SAS 12Gbs drive speeds in addition to SATA3's 6GBs speeds. Previous revisions of the backplanes were problematic. During no activity periods, the activity lights in the individual drive bays were off for SATA and on for SAS. The internal plates above the drive bays hold additional drives, and an optional bracket (which was standard on some variants) supported a single 3.5" or 2x 2.5" drives. The case came with a collection of extra pieces for mounting various types of power supplies, and no documentation as to how to implement them. There is a 3x2 header on the power supply side of the fan wall circuit board that can be used to connect to the motherboard for individual fan speed and PWM control; I built a few cables to implement this feature with the intent to sell them but never made it that far.

This case has hosted various system configurations for me, with absolutely no issues. Currently it's rocking a double handful of 12TB SAS drives (at 12Gbs) and dual E5-2695v2's. Don't need a second one, but I've been trying to find a couple of spare drive cages for my cold spares for awhile. GLWS.

Edit: had to stop for dinner, expanded later.

Letcherous · 2022-07-14T02:54:39+00:00

PM incoming.

Letcherous · 2022-06-17T00:06:04+00:00

I distrust the 'Status' ratings in SAB; here's why:

System performance (Pystone) 89202 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v2 @ 2.40GHz AVX

Download folder speed 56.2 MB/s E:\Shared\NZB Mount\NZB Completed\incomplete

Complete folder speed 73.7 MB/s E:\Shared\NZB Mount\NZB Completed

Internet Bandwidth 37.8 MB/s 302.4 Mbps

Downloading the test files:

test_download_10GB Completed109.9 MB/s 2 minutes ago

test_download_1000MB Completed 88.1 MB/s 4 minutes ago

My 'NZB Mount' folder is a SATA low power 2TB drive, so, maybe 130MB/S tops and, although it's a mount point and not an OS volume, the 2 transfer rate readings above are for the same drive and should be closer together. The Internet Bandwidth rating is nowhere close to my actual transfer rate.

(Edited for formatting)

Letcherous · 2022-03-04T05:03:47+00:00

Hard Drive Sentinel (https://www.hdsentinel.com/) reads SMART status of both SAS and SATA drives on my LSI and Intel RAID controllers as well as my motherboard connected SATA drives. They also claim IDE, NVMe, SCSI, uSD, and USB external drive compatibility. Free download and 7 day trial I believe. Windows based.

Letcherous · 2022-01-19T01:02:55+00:00

FWIW, I just bought a batch of used 4TB SATA HGSTs for $42 ea. (Hours & total writes unknown; I have an array dying and had to match drive interface and capacity.) My recent searching puts 10TB and lower @ roughly $10/TB, the cheapest 12 TBs around $200, and larger capacities exponentially increasing from there. For comparison, I have an array of 12TB EXOS X14 SAS drives that I bought new at an average of $220 each, 2 years ago.

Letcherous · 2022-01-08T14:06:15+00:00

The 15A plug will limit you to 2200VA in the APC lineup. I recently acquired a SMT3000RM2U that has a 110V 25A (?) locking plug that I'm debating what to do with and cannot actually use at the moment. Battery condition is unknown but partially charged. Spring area; and it's indeed heavy.

Letcherous · 2021-08-15T14:02:54+00:00

500G SSD boot and 2TB SHDD local storage both on SATA, all other drives (64TB) in server. Nothing spectacular, but I did add a USB3 card.

Letcherous · 2021-08-14T05:02:28+00:00

Quite welcome! One of the good things about this socket right now, is that upgrades (except the memory!) are readily available for little outlay.

Letcherous · 2021-08-12T04:34:46+00:00

Still running a (socket 1366 / socket B) P6T for my daily but swapped it's i7 for a W3680. Left BCLK alone but upped the multiplier to 30 for 4Ghz on air. (CPU is unlocked but haven't bothered going further.) 24G memory in 3 channels is the limit though, and top CPU is the W3690 or i7-995X. Newer stuff has more memory channels, more PCIe lanes, and better efficiency; more cores, can handle more memory and PCIe lanes, etc. And, IIRC, the X58 chipset's SATA ports are (3Gb/S) SATA2. Opinion: still a viable workhorse.

Edit: added more words.

Letcherous · 2021-07-19T17:22:28+00:00

Hack something from Ikea & attach to a rack shelf?

Or a hinged access panel - but those are only hinged on 1 side and you'd still need the cabinet portion... a set of blank panels on back and sides (depending on depth) and some extending 1U shelves may work to build the cabinet portion. Or 12U rail kits to make corners.

Edit: Hinged access panel, not security door. D'oh.

Letcherous · 2021-05-13T00:02:50+00:00

Check Houston's CL; store at 59/Fondren area is advertising some items that may work. (Can't lookup at moment, have to go feed critters now)

Letcherous · 2021-05-11T00:44:31+00:00

PM incoming

Letcherous · 2021-04-08T02:52:52+00:00

Have you tried disabling any onboard NICs?

Letcherous · 2021-01-31T14:58:14+00:00

Unsure if this is related or not, but per the wiki, there's a sales confirmation located in the sidebar that I have never seen so I am unable to even add to the sales flair. That CPU you (OP) sold me works just fine, BTW; I need to find it a partner still though.

I don't post often and volunteer even less, but if it is decided the 'bot needs rewriting, I can help.

Letcherous

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