XCP-ng + Mini PC setup
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Is there any people using XCP-ng with Mini PC?
Im planning to buy Asrock 4x4 Box 4800u later when its available,
In general how friendly the installer to hardware platform? Any specific reqs?
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Yes, we tested some of them (see https://xcp-ng.org/docs/ecosystem.html#edge-computing ).
Eager to know what about the Asrock 4x4 Box 4800u
Keep us posted, we'll try to help as we can if there's any trouble on it
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XCP-ng works on most hardware. I have a (literal) pile of HP ProDesk mini pc's on my desk, stacked on top of a Synology NAS for shared storage. Great little cluster, works perfectly. Only downside is: only one NIC, so you have to shared storage over the same NIC as the normal network.
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@haribo112 You could use USB NICs for additional PIFs if needed to seperate network and backup traffic. This comes at a price, but nevertheless works
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@gskger I could. I also have a very janky solution laying around, in the form of a Mini PCIe to PCIe adapter that could replace the ProDesk's Wifi card. I could then plug in a bog standard Intel PRO/1000e Quad Nic card. Haven't got around to trying that though.
