Any hardware recommendations? - consolidating desktop on server
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@Niko1 Some motherboards updated their BIOS for Windows 11 compatibility which may have automatically turned on secure boot, etc, etc.
I can't see any other reason Linux ISO's would all of a sudden fail to boot.
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@Pyroteq said in Any hardware recommendations? - consolidating desktop on server:
@Niko1 Some motherboards updated their BIOS for Windows 11 compatibility which may have automatically turned on secure boot, etc, etc.
I can't see any other reason Linux ISO's would all of a sudden fail to boot.
I’m not really sure. I assumed there must have been some way to get it to work, but given the other issues and Supermicro highlighting the very limited OS support, returning the motherboard seemed like the most prudent action. I got the AsRock board, and it’s working great so far. I’ll post my build and my AsRock experience once I have a chance to test more
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Just to close this out, here is my build so far. Everything works great. I’ve tried both moonlight and Steam remote play. Steam works much better with my upgraded setup than it did before, so for ease of use, I’ve been using that. I’ve been streaming in 4k without any issues so far
- AsRock Rack B650D4U
- AMD Ryzen 9 7950X - 16-Core
- 64GB ECC RAM Supermicro (Hynix) 32GB 288-Pin DDR5 4800 (PC5-38400) Server Memory (MEM-DR532MD-EU48)
- ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 4070 Twin Edge DLSS 3 12GB
So far, everything works as well as I could expect for game streaming. The performance hit seems minimal. Now I can get rid of my old windows Hades Canyon NUC.
I have an annoying issue when booting. Everything goes through IPMI until grub boots xcp-ng. I suspect it then redirects video to the physical vga port. I’ll post a separate thread for that since it’s not really related to VM gaming.
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@Niko1 Glad you're having a good experience with it!
I have more recently done GPU passthrough and it's been fantastic actually so I take back a bit of what I had said before. For some reason in the past I was having major issues with it and I think I may have had defective hardware (very hard to rule out in this situation though).
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I’ve been using XCP-NG 8.2 for a little while , and I’ve decided it may be time to upgrade my aging server hardware ASUS RS500A-E11-WOCPU006Z 1U Rackmount Server Barebone Socket SP3. One goal is to host about 20 windows pro 11 VM's, any suggestion for my project.?
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@Dosittec2020 Out of curiosity, why not checking the refurb market?
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@olivierlambert kindly this project will be a cpa office, i dont think refurb is good idea,?
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Depends. Dell refurb is pretty stable and well supported, with recent firmware updates and great track record of rock solid. Eg the 640 generation, even if pretty old is a true workhorse.
However, I can understand your hesitation, brand new hardware seems more appropriate at first glance, but decent refurb companies provide guarantee and even replacing part rather fast.
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@olivierlambert besides XCP-NG 8.3 is recommended to installed Xen Orchestra Web UI this is my fisrt big project using xcp-ng, i've beeing MS hypervisor, that why.
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XO is part of the Vates stack, so yes, they are made to be working together
