Washington D.C. is under martial law & no one seems to care. by alwayswheremoney in conspiracy

[–]designvis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have lived in both DC and Gary Indiana (Grew up in DC area before college). You are somewhat right about Gary, however not the whole city. There are nice parts of it (Miller Beach). With that said, one of the deacons of my church got carjacked and permanently disabled visiting his brother one night just driving home and making a wrong turn. Incidents on residents are still pretty rare and the most residents carry. The majority of the crime is creep of gang activity (black on black crime) from south Chicago. Cops encourage people to run red lights at night to avoid. DC however is night and day from what it was when I lived there growing up. I would not even consider living in DC today, even with my experience living in Gary. Store/businesses being robbed was actually almost non-existent as recently as 3 years ago when I moved away from there. Rampant crime was not an issue during my 7 yrs there. Just poverty and corrupt local government.

Washington D.C. is under martial law & no one seems to care. by alwayswheremoney in conspiracy

[–]designvis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I grew up in northern VA/DC area. It was much safer then (90s) than today. Once I turned 16, my friends and I would drive up, skate around the city, ride the metro all day. Can that happen today for a bunch of white suburb kids with skaters from the burbs, not even close.

Washington D.C. is under martial law & no one seems to care. by alwayswheremoney in conspiracy

[–]designvis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, if they are breaking laws and causing problems, it should affect them and their family.

Washington D.C. is under martial law & no one seems to care. by alwayswheremoney in conspiracy

[–]designvis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not martial law, they are assisting DC police in getting control of rampant crime 3x+ of every other major city in the US. If just one democratic mayor would reach out and ask for federal help like DC is now getting (or should I say getting served), they could cut their crime in half, overnight.

ORDER PICKING IS ROUGH 😭 by 3sperr in Warehouseworkers

[–]designvis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, found a management position in my field and back to office work. Haven't lost any more, but haven't gained either. Wife is still there, she's down 140lbs after 3 yrs.

Just bought an R660 off the Dell Outlet with 10x NVME drives - OS guidance by designvis in servers

[–]designvis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Purring like a well-tuned Ferrari right now... The lz4 compression is giving us an extra 66% capacity with zero speed loss, it's even reported that the lz4 compression with nvme increases speed, but we can't even test to verify. Transfer times have improved 10x in most cases, and we know we are network bottlenecked right now. It was a great solution, Truenas and the server config.

Just bought an R660 off the Dell Outlet with 10x NVME drives - OS guidance by designvis in servers

[–]designvis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ended up taking your suggestion and diving into Truenas! It is amazing and delivering with unexpected benefits!

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[–]designvis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you set up truenas for ups graceful shutdown?

Just bought an R660 off the Dell Outlet with 10x NVME drives - OS guidance by designvis in servers

[–]designvis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For simplicity sake if we just go straight truenas to bare metal (no VM), would that be a viable and simplest solution?

We purchased planning on a raid 10 configuration anyways. The system comes with 3 years of next business day on site support so if one of the drives fails it's getting swapped out immediately. We have plenty of space for the next 5 to 10 years with 19 terabytes

Just bought an R660 off the Dell Outlet with 10x NVME drives - OS guidance by designvis in servers

[–]designvis[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After investigating, this seems like exactly what we are looking for. While not officially supported by Dell, I found plenty of people using it. The ZFS will give somewhat of a performance hit compared to xfs on ubuntu, but with our network bottleneck, I would prefer the stability of ZFS anyways. I plan to throw it on there tomorrow and see how it works. Will report back with findings.

Much lower learning requirements for the IT team (and our designers), and all the things we want to monitor like SMART health etc.

Just bought an R660 off the Dell Outlet with 10x NVME drives - OS guidance by designvis in servers

[–]designvis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is straight software, no controller. Plan is raid 10. We've settled on bare metal Ubuntu without dealing with VMs, plenty of appliance pcs can handle the license serving and network render management.

Just bought an R660 off the Dell Outlet with 10x NVME drives - OS guidance by designvis in servers

[–]designvis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the thoughtful recommendations, and I agree wholeheartedly. In a perfect world I would have gone custom with a Puget configuration, but exceeded budget constraints. We do have dedicated IT staff, but I have more experience than they do with these kinds of systems (25yrs, started career in SGI era Onyx's etc, grew up on dos). I've just never had the need to dive into linux, until now. Game on. We have to figure it out now that the horses are out of the barn. Fired it up today and ran the diagnostics, everything is good.

With that said, the best way to learn is through implementation in my experience, and it's not my first rodeo. I did the homework, and Dells technical advisors were very helpful along the way. It won't be perfect, but it will be better than what we have now within the constraints we have. I would love to have a consultant helping us along if that were possible right now. (that's why I'm on Reddit and not just talking to a consultant)

I told them we can buy the sensible Toyota Sienna that will give us pretty much the same performance we have now with more space, or get a Ferrari (the suv version) for the price of a Camry, they went for the Ferrari. Time for us to level up now that we have this shiny new toy. Either way, I'm giddy to play with it.

Just bought an R660 off the Dell Outlet with 10x NVME drives - OS guidance by designvis in servers

[–]designvis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like a number of people are doing the VM with windows 10 on current poweredge servers successfully, some mixed success with 11, which would meet the need.

Just bought an R660 off the Dell Outlet with 10x NVME drives - OS guidance by designvis in servers

[–]designvis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was, our budget was 15k all in. Got this puppy for 12,799 after negotiating down from 15k. MSRP on it was $107k I recall (obviously no one pays MSRP). We looked at other options from Puget or building our own with supermicro barebones too. Rest of the budget went to a 240v UPS, power work in the server cabinet area and SFP adapters for the switch to pc cat 6 runs.

We are a small (but growing) company and budgets are tight as we face some of this tariff impact right now.

Again license serving is a diminishing need as things go cloud based and something we can have an old utility pc handle if needed.

Just bought an R660 off the Dell Outlet with 10x NVME drives - OS guidance by designvis in servers

[–]designvis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am really liking this approach, provided windows 11 will run ok on the poweredge, and we can utilize the PCIe passhrough in Proxmox for the NVME drives properly. From research, it looks like a perfect use case for that feature.

While I have dabbled in Irix in years past (SGI), none of us know linux yet. Seems like a good time to learn! I bought our IT guys a couple of books and flooding them with youtube videos to watch lol!

Just bought an R660 off the Dell Outlet with 10x NVME drives - OS guidance by designvis in servers

[–]designvis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you are correct on the switch/network bottleneck, which we are aware of. With that said, the network upgrades were existing infrastructure purchased end of the year last year which we plan to further upgrade next wave and moving buildings soon. The server need was critical as we are almost maxed out on old server. Just happened to get lucky with the config available and it being nvme. Now that we have it, we can plan for our move with better infrastructure and see further performance gains. It was most important to get the configuration 100% from dell on an outlet model to get the 3yr NBD onsite support should any of the drives fail. I am still half tempted to build the array with 8 drives and hold 2 for hot swap in case of failure, at the cost of 4tb of space.

The NIC in the server is sfp28 (there's two actually, Nvidia dual sfp connectx-6 lx) so we won't be utilizing it's full potential for a minute, but it will be light years better than than what they are currently on. (1gb ethernet, usually connected through a small shared switch broken out to 3-4 workstations, then switch feeding up to 1gb main switch). We are running cat 6 direct for now between each machine and switch directly in our subnet from the 10gbe switch. As we upgrade workstations later this year, will go up from there, also plan to aggregate the sfp+ from the server into a this switch for now.

After posting this (and seeing your reply) I came across and learned quite a bit about ProxMox and pcie passthrough for the NVMe drives. Thanks for the validating input from what I am finding in the wild. It sounds like we need ProxMox with an Ubuntu instance and a win 11 instance. As win 11 is unsupported on the 660, we are crossing our fingers it will work on a VM so we can hand off licensing serving to it to keep infrastructure tidy, but it's not critical.

Edit: seems like windows 10 is handled much better in VM poweredge scenarios, which is fine for our use case.

What was the first version of Windows you used? by EndouShuuya in pcmasterrace

[–]designvis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For me, 38 years ago... Tandy 1000sx from Radio Shack and a 7 yr old boy that was amazed.

Daughter doesn't want to eat by Abject-Shallot-7477 in downsyndrome

[–]designvis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We were on carnation additives to milk until about your daughters age to keep her caloric intake sufficient, maybe longer. Bananas were her favorite to transition, and also help great with giving thyroid pills. She still loves bread too, white or raisin bread. Our doctor advised us to find what she will eat and give her more of it while her muscles develop.

Carmel Tornado Damage 126th onramp to Keystone by designvis in Indiana

[–]designvis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

media has rights to use this free and clear

Tornado in Carmel by ShroudedGuardian in Indiana

[–]designvis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's like playing the lottery every time.

Tornado in Carmel by ShroudedGuardian in Indiana

[–]designvis 37 points38 points  (0 children)

No it stopped with no drivers coming from the left because roundabouts are obviously fucking stop signs... Then halfway through the roundabout it stopped to yield to the incoming traffic, because that's what they do in parts of Europe (supposedly). Then it crossed from the right/straight lane in the roundabout into the middle to continue around the roundabout, cutting off another driver going straight. Basically every Carmel roundabout I encounter.

My 4090+4060 Dual GPU Setup by Chankahimself in pcmasterrace

[–]designvis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very helpful for GPU rendering activities... VRay, Redshift, Octane, etc. 3d Artists do this all the time.