Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-06 Thread Robin Axelsson
So it seems that on the Intel side, only systems with Xeon CPUs support ECC RAM, so none of Intel's current line of i3/i5/i7 CPUs support ECC. When it comes to VT-d extensions (or IOMMU on the AMD side) for virtualization, the following page might be a good help:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-05 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Dec 4, 2011 7:21 PM, Joshua M. Clulow j...@sysmgr.org wrote: On 5 December 2011 10:41, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Stay away from AMD if you're hoping to use this system with KVM. There's no AMD support yet, and who knows when there will be. Depending on how much

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc writes: I have one of these running OI b151a without issue. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 I only have 12 Gb of ram installed, but it goes to 24 Gb. At neweggs page with specs I don't see any mention of ECC memory. Do you know if it is supported?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-05 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 22:56, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Are there instructions anywhere on how to compile and use an Illumos kernel? I'm not afraid to compile it, but I'm not sure I'd know what to do the result afterwards :)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-05 Thread James C. McPherson
On 6/12/11 07:56 AM, Geoff Flarity wrote: ... Ok, I ask because I know the Intel port is very specific (Nahelm, Westemere and Sandy Bridge only). I have an old Athalon II I believe so I can give it shot sometime. obpedant If you could manage to spell the chip name correctly, other people

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-05 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On 6 December 2011 00:34, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 4, 2011 7:21 PM, Joshua M. Clulow j...@sysmgr.org wrote: On 5 December 2011 10:41, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Stay away from AMD if you're hoping to use this system with KVM. There's no AMD

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-05 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-12-05 22:20, Harry Putnam wrote: Jerry Kempsun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc writes: I have one of these running OI b151a without issue. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 I only have 12 Gb of ram installed, but it goes to 24 Gb. At neweggs page with specs I don't see any mention of ECC memory. Do you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Humphreys
The ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution paired-with a Xeon-class Server processor. It's a bit of an older chipset; but, it supports 24GB of RAM. http://usa.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/P6T6_WS_Revolution/#specifications It does support ECC memory, though with the following caveats:** 6 x DIMM,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Hoping to save any more googling and pawing thru specs etc by letting someone that knows just name motherboards that allow 24 gb max ram and have option for ECC memory too. This will be for a zfs server but will also be the home of many installed guest vms... hence the high ram spec. I've looked

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Lou Picciano
Putnam rea...@newsguy.com To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2011 2:57:19 PM Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC Hoping to save any more googling and pawing thru specs etc by letting someone that knows just name motherboards

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Geoff Flarity
@openindiana.org Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2011 2:57:19 PM Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC Hoping to save any more googling and pawing thru specs etc by letting someone that knows just name motherboards that allow 24 gb max ram and have option for ECC memory

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 12/04/11 11:57, Harry Putnam wrote: Hoping to save any more googling and pawing thru specs etc by letting someone that knows just name motherboards that allow 24 gb max ram and have option for ECC memory too. I just built a system around a Supermicro X8SAX and a 56xx Xeon CPU. The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Jerry Kemp
I have one of these running OI b151a without issue. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 I only have 12 Gb of ram installed, but it goes to 24 Gb. Jerry On 12/04/11 13:57, Harry Putnam wrote: Hoping to save any more googling and pawing thru specs etc by letting someone that knows just name motherboards

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread John McEntee
Hoping to save any more googling and pawing thru specs etc by letting someone that knows just name motherboards that allow 24 gb max ram and have option for ECC memory too. I've looked at quite a few asus boards which seem to have ECC option more or less by default (unlike most others). But

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
If you are considering AMD hardware, most 990FX motherboards support both ECC and up to 32GB of memory. They also have support for IOMMU. I can confirm that for example the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 supports all of the above. I can also recall that I have seen screenshots of ECC options in one

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Matt Connolly
, 2011 2:57:19 PM Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC Hoping to save any more googling and pawing thru specs etc by letting someone that knows just name motherboards that allow 24 gb max ram and have option for ECC memory too. This will be for a zfs server

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Wish I could help you, but I don't even know if our servers in our datacenters have started to receive any Sandy Bridge-based Xeons. Best suggestion would be to check Tyan and Intel server boards. On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 18:15, Matt Connolly matt.connolly...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/12/2011, at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Ivar Janmaat
The AMD FX 8150 (8 core) in combination with a ASUS Crasshair V (has Intel networkinterface) might be interesting for you. The 8 GB unbuffered ddr3 dimms are hard to get and expensive. Maybe start with 16 GB en upgrade later? Ivar Robin Axelsson schreef: If you are considering AMD hardware,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Geoff Flarity
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Ivar Janmaat ijanm...@xs4all.nl wrote: The AMD FX 8150 (8 core) in combination with a ASUS Crasshair V (has Intel networkinterface) might be interesting for you. The 8 GB unbuffered ddr3 dimms are hard to get and expensive. Maybe start with 16 GB en upgrade

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On 5 December 2011 10:41, Geoff Flarity geoff.flar...@gmail.com wrote: Stay away from AMD if you're hoping to use this system with KVM. There's no AMD support yet, and who knows when there will be. Depending on how much stuffing around you're up for, richlowe and I have done some preliminary