An overview of my Dell R710 server and how I use it in day to day operations. If you like this video please give it a thumbs up. If you find my videos informative and entertaining please subscribe.
Have you thought of making Storage Pools on you Xpenology. I am looking to load up my Synology DS1815+ with a lot of drives and with my 2 Dell T110's have only a boot ssd in both and access the Synology for all my VM storage.
Thanks for showing us your setup, i really like the poweredge as hypervisor solution. Iam running a microserver (X11SSL-F) with 32gigs of RAM and E-1230V3 , but i bought it for a lot more money... i am interested how they could be compared I want to get in your idea of a domain controller here on your hypervisor. If this VM got a software issue or your hypervisor got an issue to start VMs in any kind, you are locked out?! Whats the reason you need a domain controller on the hypervisor? I would highly recommend to not do that! Or your on big hope, that can work but it is on cost of luck. Iam running a lot on linux and i dont get the usage of a domain with less than 2 active users in the environment.
4k HD support ? The videos on R710 are terrific. Many thanks. One question - are there any raid controllers for R710 that support 4k sector size Hard Drives? The larger hard drives (4T and up) seem to mostly have converted to 4k sectors. What can be found online suggests that the Dell H730 and later raid controller is needed to support 4k. That the H700, H710 only support 512 byte sectors. Do you have any practical experience with the larger drives on R710? Do the HBA controllers (200 series) possibly provide 4k support?
It is my understanding that the Perc 6, H700 and H200 can all support drives larger than 3TB, but don't quote me on that as I have no experience with those larger drives on the Dell, perhaps some-one else could chime in. Thanks for watching :)
ESXi 6.5 does not support 4k sectors, while 6.7 does (according to the internet). Searching through WD disks, have found some large HDs (10T) that still use small sectors, so there is a solution. Thanks again for the wonderful videos. -- Tom
It does not have dual sd slots, however it has a single SD and single internal USB slots, say you were using vmware ESXI you could install the software to the USB or SD card and boot from there instead of using the SATA hard drives.
Got it, I was thinking the hypervisor ran from SD rather boot from it. It's just I've seen dual SD card slots inside for redundancy I guess for the hypervisor.
I prefer to use MS Server with a GUI, so I can run other things on the server in addition to virtualizing. I have used Vmware and Citrix, but always find myself coming back to HyperV. Thanks for watching.
how are these sop cheap, here it is like 300euro and server is stripped of ram, hdd caddies. about 180eur have psu and bezel pulled off even, everything costs extra
I think it is because there is a larger pool of units available here, they make so much profit from the orig sale/lease that they treat them as junk and give them away just to be rid of them.
If you know the model# you should be able to lookup the specs on the manufacturers website to see if supports both, the R710 supports both SATA and SAS on the backplane.
A bit sad now, bought my first ever rack server off eBay. Got it today but I didn't get what I ordered (I paid for a 6x3.5" one, but the one I got only had a 4x3.5" backplane and front). Now I wonder, exactly what tool do I need to remove the cover for the third bay seen in this picture? (Figuring I can buy an extra cable and new backplane to bring it up to speccs). www.tifozi.net/img/screws.jpg
Sorry, I would have them send me the parts and the tool to fix their mistake. They should make it right, it is too much of a pain to send them back that is for sure, hope it works out for you.
Those are star screws, you can find some toolkits on amazon that contain those star drivers, I just bought this one off of Amazon and it should contain the bit you need. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073RD5XBT/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
yes, i have an R710 with 2 5575's and 64 gb of ram running in raid 10. i use it for game servers from friends, voice server, etc. works great but there are much more space efficient servers out there. these are huge. so unless you have a rack, you dont need this.
Thank you for your quick response. Do you recommend any other server now since this video is an year old. Shopping for one but not able to decide. I need something that is quiet. Thanks again.
Hyper-v is kind of dumb considering you have to worry about windows updates on the host and the whole security issue. But if it's in your house and you can live with it who cares
