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This is a good, if not opinionated, guide. And to be fair, r/homelab and its ilk are so full of options that it's easy to become overwhelmed. Personally, I set
by sgarland 5y ago
This is a good, if not opinionated, guide. And to be fair, r/homelab and its ilk are so full of options that it's easy to become overwhelmed.
Personally, I settled on Supermicro because they're modular, and don't care what brand of stuff you throw in them (HP is notorious for spinning fans to turbo if you put non-HP disks into them), although I may be picking up two Dells to complement the one I have for a Proxmox HA/Ceph cluster.
- whalesalad 5y agoI love Dell. IDRAC is killer.
- sgarland 5y agoThe HTML5 interface is definitely very nice. I haven't had a chance to use Supermicro's HTML5 IPMI, as I have an X9 board, and to my knowledge the minimum support for it is X10.
- sjackso 5y agoI have a little experience with both the old and new Supermicro stuff. The new x10 IPMI experience is a lot like the old x9 java app experience, except you don't have to dig out an ancient computer to make it work. (Which feels great by comparison!)
- croutonwagon 5y agoI dont run server anything. I have dell 7050's running a VMware/virtualization lab. They can have 64GB of ram and can handle anything i throw at them. Not iKVM though. But i just walk across the room and hook up a monitor the one or two times a year i need to. Honestly Synology has been the best godsend. I was a SAN admin in a previous life. I have run freenas, openfiler, openfiler in HA, linux+NFS+iSCSI etc over the years. Synology generally makes it simple and totally integrated and allows me to play with other things rather than getting storage working.
- walterbell 5y agoDell 7050 may have vPro, which enables Intel AMT remote KVM access via Management Engine.