Looking at a few 14thgen i7 workstations infront of me, running on Asus ProArt Z790-CREATOR WIFI
boards, and had nothing but trouble.
Onbaord Marvell AQtion 10Gb Ethernet is super flaky
Bought into the promised land of the asus pcie IPMI EXPANSION CARD
which has more caveats and bugs that I care to go into here. Anyone else got this working?
Intel 14th gen.
So given Intel CPUs are coming out the factory rusty, I’m looking at a migration to Team Red - R7x3d workstations. Need fast ~16/24 cores. Don’t need lots of pcie lanes or cores. So EPYC and Threadripper are beyond spec - but we can dream.
But I need an IPMI solution that works, and ideally inbuilt 10gig. Deploying an x100 pikvms sounds like a nightmare I don’t want to think about. Spacially distributed pcs, not all one rack.
Anybody know of any new mobo’s on the horizon that fit this bill. AM5+IPMI (,+10g) ?
I saw what looked like some good stuff at computex coverage, but not seen any product listings.
is the ol’ asrockrack B650D4U the only game in town? and can anybody vouch for its use on mass in an enterprise-light env?
why Ipmi? Remote power/reboot, & kvm for bios control needed.
Follow up on PiKVm. My reservations are how we handle HDMI. presently worsktations are conencted via DP to two nice high refresh montors. Can I put a piKvm in the middle of that that doesn’t degrade the at-desk screen experience in any way?
works great. however the barebones racks – asrock will make you a good deal on a volume buy. the 2u1g has a neat dynatron cooler and is rock solid, made for Big Honkin GPU, redundant power, etc. Also has ipmi.
note that ipmi cannot see the dGPU
There were good solutions from supermicro and tyan I saw at computex; asrock rack is already in extreme volume production though it seems.
Thanks!
hmm 2U1G. Very nice. Bit Loud and need a good rack to live in. Good potetial. Very Fair Spec & features.
If I could fit basically same in a deskside workstation chassis. & downgarade to a sigular (less loud) ATX PSU. That’s endgame. Ryzen chips and am5 platform is speedy. I just need some remote management and life is good. Or Threadripper comes for my wallet.
– impi web-kvm not seeing dGpu
is something I hate to be true. I’ve had fever dreams of hdmi splitters with inbuilt downscalers, & usb hdmi capture dongles… but I think I’ve gotten into madness. If network is down… I shall just heartlessly ipmi reboot it. (Bare Metal Windows OS). I maybe don’t need to see the gpu output
If this was one rack with short hdmi cable runs, a L1 techs KVM and a piKvm would probably work great for "remote - see the screen " debugging of multiple machines.
