On 09/15/10 2:19 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Hi all,
I'm just curios and would like some input from the community on this
one. We're busy budgeting for a couple of new servers and I thought it
would be good to try out the Core i7 CPU's, but see the majority of
them don't offer VT-d, but just
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:24 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
Core I7 is the branding for the desktop CPU family. The Server
processors are branded Xeon 5500 and 5600 (for dual socket servers) and
Xeon 7000 for 4+ socket servers. Typically, desktop processors go with
desktop
On 09/16/10 12:16 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Yet the server vendors ship servers, with server chassis, hardware
RAID, redundant power supplies, etc offer Core i7 options. How does
that work?
low end servers, i guess. I'd have to see a specific model to comment
specifically.
most of the stuff
On Thursday, September 16, 2010 03:37:23 am John R Pierce wrote:
On 09/16/10 12:16 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Yet the server vendors ship servers, with server chassis, hardware
RAID, redundant power supplies, etc offer Core i7 options. How does
that work?
low end servers, i guess. I'd
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote:
On Thursday, September 16, 2010 03:37:23 am John R Pierce wrote:
On 09/16/10 12:16 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Yet the server vendors ship servers, with server chassis, hardware
RAID, redundant power supplies, etc offer Core i7
On 09/16/10 8:56 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Dell's PowerEdge R210 and R310 are available with Core i3.
But those aren't servers since the Core iX CPU's are desktop class CPU's ;)
those are low end servers in Dell's line.
I'd be looking at the R410 or R710 for virtualization hosts, along with
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:09 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
On 09/16/10 8:56 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Dell's PowerEdge R210 and R310 are available with Core i3.
But those aren't servers since the Core iX CPU's are desktop class CPU's
;)
those are low end servers in Dell's
On September 16, 2010 10:23:15 am Rudi Ahlers wrote:
But I'm convinced now that XEON's would be better even though they're
far more expensive. And at the same time our older Pentium IV,
Core2Duo Core2Quad machines work as well as our XEON machines, but
at much cheaper prices - which
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Alan Hodgson ahodg...@simkin.ca wrote:
On September 16, 2010 10:23:15 am Rudi Ahlers wrote:
But I'm convinced now that XEON's would be better even though they're
far more expensive. And at the same time our older Pentium IV,
Core2Duo Core2Quad machines work as
On 09/16/10 10:37 AM, Alan Hodgson wrote:
The 6 core Xeons are still kinda pricey though.
the new AMD 6-8 core Opteron stuff, OTOH, is relatively cheap, Dell
sells these as the Rx15 models, like the R715
they also support a LOT of ram.
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:19:38AM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Hi all,
I'm just curios and would like some input from the community on this
one. We're busy budgeting for a couple of new servers and I thought it
would be good to try out the Core i7 CPU's, but see the majority of
them don't
Hi all,
I'm just curios and would like some input from the community on this
one. We're busy budgeting for a couple of new servers and I thought it
would be good to try out the Core i7 CPU's, but see the majority of
them don't offer VT-d, but just VT-x. Looking at the LGA1366 range,
only the
So, if VT-d really necessary?
We mainly host XEN virtual machine for the hosting industry, i.e. we
don't need / use graphics rendering inside VM's, or need DAS on the
VM's, etc.
Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
SoftDux
VT-d is not a necessity in general. It all depends on the kind of
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote:
VT-d is not a necessity in general. It all depends on the kind of
virtualization you run. If you run only paravirtualized guests on Xen,
then there is not any need for VT-d (see [1]). If you fully virtualize for
Hi,
I'm just curios and would like some input from the community on this
one. We're busy budgeting for a couple of new servers and I thought it
would be good to try out the Core i7 CPU's, but see the majority of
them don't offer VT-d, but just VT-x. Looking at the LGA1366 range,
only the
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