Re: Re : Suggestions home server

2017-12-17 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling 
Agree with the j1900 experiences. The n3160's can be had for roughly
same price (2 port) variants and are a generation newer 14nm and
support AES-NI and are far more capable for mixed workloads.

On 18 December 2017 at 11:48, Oliver Marugg  wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2017, at 20:24, gro...@grompf.net wrote:
>
>> Bonjour,
>>
>> For my own personal purpose, i'm using coolermaster 110, 120, 130 cases
>> with some asrock low cost and low power mini-itx boards.All other parts
>> are common ones. It's not the «best & most power full setup» but it's
>> silent and my small ups announces 5 days of autonomy with openbsd on
>> this. Anyway it's very well supported as long as you don't select
>> braswell and alike cpus.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eric
>
>
> Thanks Eric, I verified this option with a J1900 or equivalent low power
> cpus/boards. I think to use vmm in future they seem a bit underpowered for
> my purpose.
>

Re: Suggestions home server

2017-12-17 Thread Oliver Marugg 

On 15 Dec 2017, at 10:24, Alex Waite wrote:


I am considering buying a not so expensive home server.
[snip]
This might be a bit above "not so expensive" (~1,200), but I've been 
running this at home for just under a year and have been very pleased: 
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midtower/5028/sys-5028d-tn4t.cfm


Caveat: I'm running SmartOS on the metal and OpenBSD (and other OSs) 
in zones/KVM.


---Alex


Thanks Alex. I went for an ASRock DeskMini 110, equipped it with a i5 
Skylake. The chassis is small in size, but it will take a M2 and 2 SSDs, 
perfect for my needs (max TDP 65 Watt).

Re: Suggestions home server

2017-12-17 Thread Oliver Marugg 

On 15 Dec 2017, at 9:11, Noth wrote:


On 14/12/17 20:40, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 07:23:51PM +0100, Oliver Marugg wrote:
The HPE Gen10 MicroServer (but BIOS only with contract or under 
warranty)
could be as a possible solution (does anyone using it with 
OpenBSD?).
The Gen8 works fine once you set the disk controller to plain SATA 
mode

instead of the default hardware raid mode.

Haven't had a chance to try the newer versions, but I wouldn't expect
any trouble

Unfortunately it's barely more powerful and the Marvell RAID/S-ATA 
controller seems to be really buggy on opensource OSes. And no iLO. 
It's closer to the G7 than the G8 in design. At least it does 32Gb of 
ram.


Next step up is the Supermicro, but it's also a step up in budget : 
https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midtower/5028/SYS-5028D-TN4T.cfm 
128Gb of ram, and a Xeon-D 1541 included. It can be boosted to a Xeon 
1567 for 4 extra cores.


I decided to boost my MicroServer G8 to the max whilst I save up for 
the SuperMicro...


Noth


Thanks Noth, I use the SYS-5018D-FN4T with a XeonD1541 as power 
efficient webserver 
(https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/5018/sys-5018d-fn4t.cfm), 
which is great. The 5028D is the tower variant and too big for my 
purpose hren, and it is really a step up to my budget.

Re: Suggestions home server

2017-12-17 Thread Oliver Marugg 

On 14 Dec 2017, at 20:40, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:


On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 07:23:51PM +0100, Oliver Marugg wrote:
The HPE Gen10 MicroServer (but BIOS only with contract or under 
warranty)

could be as a possible solution (does anyone using it with OpenBSD?).


The Gen8 works fine once you set the disk controller to plain SATA 
mode

instead of the default hardware raid mode.

Haven't had a chance to try the newer versions, but I wouldn't expect
any trouble

--
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 
seconds.


Thanks Peter, I verified the Gen10, to much storage and I do not like 
the BIOS story (warranty or contract) with the Gen10.

Re: Re : Suggestions home server

2017-12-17 Thread Oliver Marugg 

On 14 Dec 2017, at 20:24, gro...@grompf.net wrote:


Bonjour,

For my own personal purpose, i'm using coolermaster 110, 120, 130 
cases
with some asrock low cost and low power mini-itx boards.All other 
parts
are common ones. It's not the «best & most power full setup» but 
it's

silent and my small ups announces 5 days of autonomy with openbsd on
this. Anyway it's very well supported as long as you don't select
braswell and alike cpus.

Regards,
Eric


Thanks Eric, I verified this option with a J1900 or equivalent low power 
cpus/boards. I think to use vmm in future they seem a bit underpowered 
for my purpose.

Re: Suggestions home server

2017-12-15 Thread Alex Waite 

I am considering buying a not so expensive home server.
[snip]
This might be a bit above "not so expensive" (~1,200), but I've been 
running this at home for just under a year and have been very pleased: 
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midtower/5028/sys-5028d-tn4t.cfm


Caveat: I'm running SmartOS on the metal and OpenBSD (and other OSs) in 
zones/KVM.


---Alex

Re: Suggestions home server

2017-12-15 Thread Noth 



On 14/12/17 20:40, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 07:23:51PM +0100, Oliver Marugg wrote:

The HPE Gen10 MicroServer (but BIOS only with contract or under warranty)
could be as a possible solution (does anyone using it with OpenBSD?).

The Gen8 works fine once you set the disk controller to plain SATA mode
instead of the default hardware raid mode.

Haven't had a chance to try the newer versions, but I wouldn't expect
any trouble

Unfortunately it's barely more powerful and the Marvell RAID/S-ATA 
controller seems to be really buggy on opensource OSes. And no iLO. It's 
closer to the G7 than the G8 in design. At least it does 32Gb of ram.


Next step up is the Supermicro, but it's also a step up in budget : 
https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midtower/5028/SYS-5028D-TN4T.cfm 
128Gb of ram, and a Xeon-D 1541 included. It can be boosted to a Xeon 
1567 for 4 extra cores.


I decided to boost my MicroServer G8 to the max whilst I save up for the 
SuperMicro...


Noth

Re: Suggestions home server

2017-12-14 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen 
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 07:23:51PM +0100, Oliver Marugg wrote:
> The HPE Gen10 MicroServer (but BIOS only with contract or under warranty)
> could be as a possible solution (does anyone using it with OpenBSD?).

The Gen8 works fine once you set the disk controller to plain SATA mode
instead of the default hardware raid mode. 

Haven't had a chance to try the newer versions, but I wouldn't expect
any trouble 

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.

Re : Suggestions home server

2017-12-14 Thread gro...@grompf.net 
Bonjour,

For my own personal purpose, i'm using coolermaster 110, 120, 130 cases
with some asrock low cost and low power mini-itx boards.All other parts
are common ones. It's not the «best & most power full setup» but it's
silent and my small ups announces 5 days of autonomy with openbsd on
this. Anyway it's very well supported as long as you don't select
braswell and alike cpus.

Regards,
Eric