✧✦Catherine✦✧5d ago

i think if your network card has "UEFI secure boot" you have done something wrong. probably a lot of things

i counted at least 6 different pieces of firmware when looking at it component by component (if you can call a 128 GB eMMC with Ubuntu on it "firmware")

Show threadKevin Karhan

@whitequark Mayve said #NIC also includes these things on purpose as it's designed to be the main device a VPS host boots from and also connects to a Storage-LAN...

  • I've not only seen such combos for like 1U servers with 1-2 PCIe slots but also worked on setups that utilize these for massive compute setups.
    • We're talking 8-digit projects aka. "Cloud Exit" migrations to self-owned physical hardware that merely got colocated.

And yes, they saturated 100G-NICs with Ceph/iSCSI traffic…

Apr 8 at 1:20amWeb
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧5d ago
@kkarhan people i've talked to who used it didn't seem very enthusiastic about the capabilities of the card