Re: [OmniOS-discuss] supermicro A1SRM-2558F

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016, Dave Pooser wrote:


On 8/1/15, 2:45 PM, "OmniOS-discuss on behalf of Bob Friesenhahn"
 wrote:


I have a system with one of these motherboards on order but have not
yet heard about specific issues with OmniOS except that the 10Gb-E
interfaces will not be supported right away, and there was mention of
"weirdness with asy port" with early hardware on an Illumos list.
Hopefully I will have news within the next two weeks


Any experiences to report? I'm curious about a low-poer box for my own
nefarious purposes


Other than the 10Gbit interfaces still not working, and the need to 
downgrade USB to USB 2.0, I have experienced nothing but joy from my 
X10SDV-TLN4F-based system in the past four months after a firmware 
update was applied.  The firmware update was necessary in order for 
the BIOS to discover and boot from M.2 SATA devices.


It is not as fast as systems taking 10X more power but should handle 
most medium-duty Internet services and file server duties without any 
problem at all.


The only real gripe I have found is that the IPMI Ethernet is bridged 
onto one of the LAN Ethernet interfaces (unfortunately the one I chose 
to point to the Internet), which causes a security concern. 
Apparently this is typical for SuperMicro hardware.


I would be happier if the SOC/motherboad supported 8 SATA interfaces 
rather than 6 since the chassis supports 8.  Some Xeon D motherboard 
vendors add a SAS chip for 8 SAS channels.


My system was purchased from SW Technology (https://www.swt.com/) 
which is off Greenville in Plano, Texas.  The system was delivered 
with OmniOS installed and working according to my specification.  The 
configurator page for the system I ordered (which includes an option 
to install OmniOS) is at "https://www.swt.com/xd04.php;.


Bob
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] supermicro A1SRM-2558F

[Dave Pooser]

On 8/1/15, 2:45 PM, "OmniOS-discuss on behalf of Bob Friesenhahn"
 wrote:

>I have a system with one of these motherboards on order but have not
>yet heard about specific issues with OmniOS except that the 10Gb-E
>interfaces will not be supported right away, and there was mention of
>"weirdness with asy port" with early hardware on an Illumos list.
>Hopefully I will have news within the next two weeks

Any experiences to report? I'm curious about a low-poer box for my own
nefarious purposes
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] supermicro A1SRM-2558F

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 13:32:39 +0200
Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote:

 
 Umm, roughly twice as many independent tasks, assuming you can saturate your 
 4 cores? Think compile farms, mail relays with antispam, webservers, 
 databases with parallelisable queries, zfs with compression, VMs, etc. Simply 
 many background processes (dormant zones and services) can require a bit of 
 overhead in context switching (and at a few thousand processes per core this 
 can become a fulltime job of its own); the more cores you have - the smaller 
 hit you get per each.
 
 Even if you do not have such loads running fullthrottle all the time, it is 
 possible that the moment you do - more cores can help reach your goals faster 
 in wallclock time.

This servers only job will primarily be exposing zvol's as iSCSI LUN's
and to a lesser extend shared storage via NFS for virtual servers. I
have one now doing the same job running on a 4 core Opteron (3350 HE)
and at no time it has been even close to saturate all 4 cores. I think
4 cores should suffice and for only 15W compared to 45w.

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] supermicro A1SRM-2558F

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 20:23:46 +0200
Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote:

 
 FWIW, Oracle boasted that Fishworks storage had a lot of cores that were 
 quite used in compression, perhaps dedup and encryption (not illumos case), 
 btw you can plug VFS filters like antivirus into zfs since almost forever, 
 etc. As well as processing work of all the server-services. At high loads 
 even interrupt processing has a noticeable cost.
 
No Windows© here so antivirus is not an issue;-)
No dedub either.
For encryption the CPU comes with Intel® QuickAssist Technology which
by the time encryption is in illumos will be supported to (my best
guess)

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] supermicro A1SRM-2558F

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Michael Rasmussen wrote:


Hi all,

Anyone tried Omnios on this board?

There is also an 8-core version A1SRM-2758F would the extra 4 cores be
worth the extra money?


While there may be some rough-edges and disabled features for a while, 
Xeon D seems like a much better investment than an Atom CPU with an 
extra 4 cores.  This is also a low power SOC, but with quite a lot 
better performance than Atom and more/better integrated interfaces.


See:

  http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/#1667

I have a system with one of these motherboards on order but have not 
yet heard about specific issues with OmniOS except that the 10Gb-E 
interfaces will not be supported right away, and there was mention of 
weirdness with asy port with early hardware on an Illumos list. 
Hopefully I will have news within the next two weeks.


Bob
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] supermicro A1SRM-2558F

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sat, 01 Aug 2015 15:54:59 -0400
Ottmar Klaas ottmarkl...@countermail.com wrote:

 I have been running OmniOS on the A1SRM-2758F-O since February. No 
 complaints, runs nicely.
 
But is 90€ more worth the money for extra 4 cores?

I wonder how much more load is acquired to see a difference between 4
and 8 cores?

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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] supermicro A1SRM-2558F

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 14:45:50 -0500 (CDT)
Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:

 
 While there may be some rough-edges and disabled features for a while, Xeon D 
 seems like a much better investment than an Atom CPU with an extra 4 cores.  
 This is also a low power SOC, but with quite a lot better performance than 
 Atom and more/better integrated interfaces.
 
Looks nice but only mini-itx. I need at least a PCIe x8 (HBA) and a
PCIe x4 (dual Infiniband nic)

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