I've got three SuperMicro 5018A-FTN4's deployed at towers as anycast
DNS/NTP/RADIUS/etc nodes. Plenty fast and pull only about 20-25W. The
fan is nearly silent unless you kick it up to full speed. Single SSD and
16GB of RAM. You get IPMI and quad Intel NICs. Just note it takes ECC
SO-DIMMs.
I've bought some stuff from these guys too:
https://www.theserverstore.com/ Grabbed a $4k dual-node server from them
and one of the m/b's won't boot, but it was only $325 and I was more
interested in the chassis since I have spare boards anyway, so I didn't
even bother with the DOA warranty. Came super clean, almost brand new
looking, and no damage at all.
On 1/15/2018 9:57 AM, Nate Burke wrote:
I'm working at a site with Dual WAN feeds (from 3rd parties), I think
one of them is acting up, not packet loss, but other weird browsing
issues, websites half loading, video buffering, but speedtests are
fine. I'd like to put a PC there, and test/troubleshoot the
troublesome link remotely so I'm not sitting cramped in a closet. By
not having my access to the PC over the IP and default gateway of the
PC, and multiple NICs in the PC, I can remotely switch the PC between
the WAN feeds to prove that it is an issue with that single feed.
IP KVM's are coming up around the $300-$400 range. Maybe I should
just drop a Supermicro server in there.
On 1/15/2018 9:33 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
dual NICs with teamviewer is what i use to manage our office rack
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 9:25 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This sounds like a goofy use case.
Maybe a raspberry pi with a usb NIC?
What are you needing this for?
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Nate Burke <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I'm looking to put a PC at a site, but I want true out of Band
management
> for it, I.E. Be able to turn off the Ethernet Interfaces or
Change IP
> Addresses without dropping management connectivity. I'm used to
working with
> the Supermicro motherboards built in IPMI Functionality, which
is awesome,
> but I just need a simple PC at a site for a couple weeks, not a
whole
> server. Is there a brand/model that works well without
breaking the bank?
> VGA video, and USB keyboard/mouse. It's been several years
since I've last
> used one, so I'm sure they are better now than they used to
be. They were
> very flaky then.
>
> Nate
