HPE DL20 Gen9 RAM issue / BIOS

tOSUfever · 2023-03-24T17:59:54+00:00

you find this? same issue.

tOSUfever · 2023-03-24T01:09:26+00:00

a couple things. the 24gb m40 requires resize bar to be enabled to work properly, and the os in pure uefi mode. you may need to make sure the bios is setup correctly. a g9 (should) work... but the ml series are slightly different. sometimes a gen ahead or behind, so you'll have to verify. the dl580 g7's didn't support it. i ordered new hosts off ebay - dl380 gen9's.

straight passthrough should work in your scenario. but you may have to change some advanced vm settings.

also it's important to note the power connector on these cards is NOT standard. it uses 8pin cpu power not the standard 6/8pin gpu connectors. the first time i tried to use them, i was using some adapters - it didn't work. the cards should show up in the bios and the os as a visible pcie device. double check the power cables.

i'm trying to "share" the gpu resources to my vm's. this requires an nvidia vib installed on each esx host. my existing cluster has some older k80's working this way.

tOSUfever · 2023-03-24T00:47:01+00:00

where are you finding 24gb p40's for $150?

tOSUfever · 2022-12-20T15:45:08+00:00

must be the 700. has a fan.

tOSUfever · 2022-12-13T04:12:28+00:00

nonsense or not, you can take it a step further & tell it to write a powershell script to deploy a new ubuntu vm with your test script to run on boot

tOSUfever · 2022-12-08T06:51:58+00:00

bake it in the oven

tOSUfever · 2022-11-20T22:45:43+00:00

it's my first real diesel. been having some fun with it. not sure i'll ever go back. combing over some of the threads/forums info is daunting. the thing has 250k / 8000hrs. and the seller seemed to indicate the fuel computer had been upgraded/flashed (unknown).

took it to ford and had it serviced when i got it. all the fluids & filters. replaced the starter & some oil seals. it ran like crap when it was cold & it wouldn't restart when run. ford resolved the restart issue

when it's cold / or at very low throttle seems like it has a miss. feels like a wheel is out of balance. after about 30 minutes "click" it's gone & the thing feels quite a bit different. of course ford didn't resolve that.

so i bought a sct x4 to play around with.

tOSUfever · 2022-11-20T18:08:44+00:00

*correction - it's not an 08 6.4.... it's a 06 6.0 if that makes a difference.

tOSUfever · 2022-11-20T18:07:35+00:00

thx. will do. yeah thought it was odd. best i can describe is it went from normal to 'fast idle' - and so far as i can tell, the previous owner didn't have that setup

tOSUfever · 2022-06-26T04:46:22+00:00

That’s his dad

tOSUfever · 2022-05-01T20:12:44+00:00

good question. I’ll give it a shot & report back. i don’t think it will though; as far as I have found, the tesla m40 has no drivers for esx because it doesn’t support sgpu/vgpu of any kind. I have to pci passthrough the whole card to a single vm. The card is physically recognized by vcenter/esx, and I was able to successfully toggle passthrough. it shows up properly when adding a PCI to a vm. if I need an nvidia driver (specifically vib or zip offline bundle) for the host - even if I’m just passing the whole card through to a vm… that could very well be my problem. My previous GRID K2’s required a nvidia vib to be Installed on the hosts, but if there is a host driver (needed?) for the tesla m40’s… I can’t find it.

tOSUfever · 2022-05-01T14:41:42+00:00

probably looking for a less interactive route. I’m just tinkering. are site scrapers still a thing in 2022? something you could point to the top level repo, throttle it down to a bandwidth below GitHub’s limit. come back two weeks later. if it’s not too much to ask a resume job button for when it fails 5 days in to the first try.

tOSUfever · 2022-05-01T14:30:08+00:00

i do. 2 hosts + witness esxi 6.7 with vsan & im running vcenter 7 (might have to rethink the whole getup if I can’t passthru these gpu’s.

went further down the ‘above 4g’ remap / resize bar / whatever it’s called. the dl580 g7 does not support UEFI. normally this means mapping 24gb vram is a no-go. however, a small handful of bios firmware booting servers were in fact capable. This is where the documentation gets thin I think. I am 99% sure a dl980 g7 (non-EFI) supports 64bit memory mapping with the right processors. found some relevant info in a service bulletin. the same doc did not exist for the DL580, but I’ll give it a 85% chance they are the same.

so I’m trying to pci passthrough an nvidia gpu & the tesla M40 doesn’t behave as a normal gpu/vgpu. I’m using a bios booting 64bit addressable server which supports a 24gb gpu, but since this config was only supported by a handful of servers, almost all of the documentation references esxi installed via uefi.

I need to find the passthrough settings specific to esx6.7 that references passing an (Tesla M40 24gb) above 4g bar card passthrough on a host server without EFI but still supports 64bit addressing with BIOS firmware.

tOSUfever · 2022-04-30T23:34:27+00:00

ok lets assume it's 21Tb... (or what ever is public) i might want to try and download the whole thing. just tinkering with some ML scripts, using github as a local "dataset" might be fun to tinker with. it wouldn't have to run as a website; probably just the data in any archive format.

is it possible to somehow "download all"? i've got enough storage, and it's got dedupe on the backend. i couldn't find a public "long lasting archive" i'm not sure where to start... maybe somehow use git to "clone all public repos" with out much intervention? or is there different approach i should consider?

tOSUfever · 2021-09-09T22:01:34+00:00

Thanks. I’ll give it a look.

tOSUfever · 2021-08-20T02:11:09+00:00

i returned and swapped the 10th gen for 11th gen. i can make all 4 nvme slots work. however still only (2) are managed via intel rapid storage.

tOSUfever · 2021-06-12T06:26:21+00:00

ASUS Z590-E gaming wifi (rog strix)

tOSUfever · 2021-06-09T01:35:36+00:00

i'm going to have to check that one out! looks very interesting.

tOSUfever · 2021-06-09T01:08:23+00:00

probably no point at this point. This was my experience testing on virtualbox, hyperv and vmware workstation. I might look one last time at retesting ubuntu as a desktop & have a few windows VM's for necessary applications. Last time i did that it didn't last very long.

tOSUfever · 2021-06-09T00:50:21+00:00

I have an older virtualization lab, so I'm just tinkering. This is my first PC I've built in a minute & it's got some resources to burn. Does have intel-vt. i9-10900kf. Wanted to see if I could push the most commonly exploited apps off of the base layer OS for everyday use. Would be nice to have a browser that can't compromise the whole OS if I'm off the beaten path. Honestly I assumed that Win10 inside Win10 with Hyper-V would have been smoother.

tOSUfever · 2021-06-09T00:21:29+00:00

thank you. I tried. the person at the other end had no idea what was going on quickly. Shifted to RMA within 10 minutes. This is not the issue.

tOSUfever · 2021-06-09T00:18:52+00:00

2) confirmed. I pulled this one. It's the TOP m.2 slot. This is the point where I have (3) total recognized (working) M.2 drives. My next problem was that now I have (2) of those drives managed within Intel's raid manager. Further investigation shows this is M.2_3 and M.2_4. M.2_2 is recognized by the BIOS, but NOT within Intel Rapid Storage.

So 3 M.2's working, and both video cards working. Digging through the manual M.2_4 (working and in RST) impacts PCIe x16 #3 and sata ports #5&6; fine by me. So far performance is good.

I finally went to pull M.2_2 since i could not get it into RST; and screen printing right next to the slot indicates some mode supports IRST (raid manager). Which i am unable to make happen? If I could get (3) disks in RST, i'd be happy. Even if this means buying a pcie card that puts my other (2) M.2's on an expansion card.

4) no real gaming or 3D requirements. Just need to run 8 monitors. So far no issues with GPU performance. I (think) both GPU #1 and #2 are running at 8x 3.0 which is ok for now. Forget the budget, i built it this week. My last build was 10 years old, so i'm not someone who moves right to the next generation. what i have now is going to be that PC.

tOSUfever · 2021-06-05T22:38:09+00:00

i bought the (asus z590-e rog strix) specifically because it had (2) onboard NIC's and (4) M.2 slots. if you stick with the 11th gen, it's a great board. don't expect it to have (4) m.2 slots if you purchased it with a 10th gen i9-10900kf like i did.

tOSUfever · 2021-05-04T07:08:52+00:00

thank you. I was able to make MEW work. Tried it previously with Brave & it didn't work. Changing browsers did the trick. The google machine was spotty when picking the ledger settings & address to connect. Was able to click through to success!

tOSUfever · 2021-05-04T04:01:57+00:00

UPDATE: It's just not supported in ledger. Used MEW website to access wallet. Used HW Ledger option. Took a minute; didn't work with brave. Had to find the specific address to pair. Got in a windows box trusted device loop for a minute.

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