Hardware: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 21:55, 25 June 2024

We have upgraded to a Dell PowerEdge T430, here are the new specs:

2x Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2667 v4 @ 3.20GHz (Broadwell) (8-cores each, 8-threads each, 32 logical cores total)
128GB ECC RAM
2x 10/100/1Gb Broadcom In-built Network Card (1x Connected @ 1Gb)
10/100/1Gb Realtek PCIe Network Card (Connected @ 1Gb for KVM Virtual Machine/FreePBX)
1x480GB SATA 3.0 Solid State Drive, mounted as / (Btrfs without snapshots, GPT)
8x8TB 7200RPM SAS-3 Hard Drives using Dell PERC H730P hardware controller with RAID-5, mounted as /storage (Btrfs, GPT, 50TB Total) with 2GB battery back-up cache
Dell iDRAC 8 system management

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-This is the list of hardware available for this server:
+We have upgraded to a Dell PowerEdge T430, here are the new specs:
-* Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (45nm Wolfdale Core, 2 cores)
+* 2x Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2667 v4 @ 3.20GHz (Broadwell) (8-cores each, 8-threads each, 32 logical cores total)
-* 8GB RAM
+* 128GB ECC RAM
-* 10/100/1Gb In-built Network Card (Connected @ 1Gb)
+* 2x 10/100/1Gb Broadcom In-built Network Card (1x Connected @ 1Gb)
-* 10/100/1Gb PCIe Network Card (Connected @ 1Gb for Xen)
+* 10/100/1Gb Realtek PCIe Network Card (Connected @ 1Gb for KVM Virtual Machine/[[FreePBX]])
-* 1x120GB SATA-III Solid State Drive, mounted as / (Btrfs without snapshots, MSDOS due to boot issues)
+* 1x480GB SATA 3.0 Solid State Drive, mounted as / (Btrfs without snapshots, GPT)
-* 3x1TB 7200 SATA Hard Drives using MD software RAID-5, mounted as /storage (ext4, GPT)
+* 8x8TB 7200RPM SAS-3 Hard Drives using Dell PERC H730P hardware controller with RAID-5, mounted as /storage (Btrfs, GPT, 50TB Total) with 2GB battery back-up cache
-* LG DVD-RW drive
+* Dell iDRAC 8 system management
-* NVIDIA GeForce FX 8500GT Silent card
-We are considering procuring a new IBM ThinkServer TS140 with a Xeon processor - watch this space!