My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory

Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by snuxoll on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:48PM (#20688342)

Sure, but the licenses to unlock them are easy to acquire.

Dell ties them to the service tag, which is quite easy to set via racadm and you can buy a license off eBay. Older Dell systems required a $30 part you can find on eBay. HP just uses a key they send you on paper.

Hell, many times these decoms still have the license applied to them. I have 2xR210 II’s, a R320, R520 and formerly had a HP ML10 and a Lenovo TD340. The Lenovo was the biggest pain to get VKVM because of the stupid hard to find dongle.

Don’t buy Lenovo servers for a homelab; BTW. Dell lets you override the ramp in fan speed when a non-Dell branded PCIe card is installed, newer Lenovo servers ramp them up to 100% and you can’t turn it off (I had to leave my TD340 on the initial BIOS revision with security issues because of this).

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by bubblethink on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:40PM (#20688919)

The 100% fan on non-whitelisted card is such a dick move. Is there a single legit reason for this ? Did someone's building burn down because they didn't buy the quadro gpu that Dell sells ?

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by snuxoll on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:35PM (#20689426)

It’s not even limited to GPU’s, a quad-port Intel NIC in my TD340 causes it to max fan speeds if I’m not running the A01 BIOS.

The argument is they don’t know the thermal requirements of the card because it’s not OEM-branded so they max the fans “to be safe”, but not letting you override it is just bullshit.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by sitkack on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @11:26PM (#20692495)

They do something similar on Chromebooks and 3rd party mini pcie WiFi cards. If you insert a non Lenovo branded card, it will fail to even enter the bios screen with a Dick Move error.

Also, same stupid justification,”this configuration hasn’t passed FCC EMI tests” when the cards a qualified directly, they are the FCC certification boundary.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by bubblethink on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:49AM (#20693479)

I think lenovo has stopped doing that recently. However, we now have soldered wifi cards.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by lozaning on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:54PM (#20688411)

Back when I was in the HP VAR game iLO licenses where some of my highest money makers. MSRP for those licenses was like $250.00. I was buying them grey market from ESISO for like $35 a pop.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by vbezhenar on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:58PM (#20690169)

I bought ilo advanced license for my microserver for $5 at ebay. It worked just fine.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by gsich on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:34PM (#20690516)

Probably from a keygen or duplicate use. But won't matter anyway. The ILO (or HP) will never know.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by mey on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:21PM (#20688741)

I have some principals with my homelab. Not doing grey market licensing is one of them. That's my personal preference, but just wanted to point out that iDRAC enterprise is additional.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by louwrentius on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:21PM (#20690380)

> Hell, many times these decoms still have the license applied to them

I was indeed that lucky. Thank you <bank>.

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