@fox I have plenty of DDR4 ECC ram i can move around my hosts.
There are some real good pricing with Refurb resellers.
Rather than getting more DDR4, I need to start with some DDR5 if i want a platform where i can leverage PCIe v5.
My ratio comparing refurb DDR4 2666MT/s vs the same amount of ram in DDR5 is 2.5x price change
#homelab #HomeDC
#HomeDC #maintenance
Sounds silly, but once every 5-6 years its worth to replace the #cr2032 battery to ensure BIOS integrity.
#HomeDC maintenance. Installing new #vSAN ESA NVMe disks (Samsung PM9A3) and #ESX9 NVMe Memory Tiering (Intel/solodigm Optane) in host.
NVMe Memory Tiering will double the 384GB host memory.
#HomeDC maintenance. Clean-up to add #ThermalGrizzly #Carbonaut 51x68 between the Xeon CPU and the CPU cooler.
Time to upgrade the BMC Firmware & BIOS just before installing the next version of #ESXi in the #homelab #HomeDC.
Thank you #supermicro for releasing updates & patches for motherboards released in 2017
Just another preview of the @mikrotik #RDS2216 NVMe over TCP performance with a RAID10 of 4 Samsung PM9A3. The Linux VM maxed out the NIC when running the fio test for large files.
#HomeDC #homelab #NVMeOF
@erik @mikrotik As for the NVMe over TCP to the #vSphere host, i’m working on it, but needed 💤
#HomeDC #homelab #RDS2216 #NVMeOF
@mikrotik The #RDS2216 ROSE arrived.
Time to load the NVMe 2.5” 7mm drives and NVMe M.2 2280 drives in their sleds.
#HomeDC #homelab #NVMeOF
Getting goosebumps… my @mikrotik #RDS2216 has shipped…
expanding the #homelab with NVMe-over-TCP capabilities. #HomeDC
ROSE Data server (RDS) | MikroTik

RDS is a high-performance, all-in-one storage, 100G networking, and container platform designed for enterprise environments. Featuring 20 U.2 NVMe storage slots and a special RouterOS Edition for Storage & Compute (ROSE).