we have one

If that is the case then I am going to Synergy. Otherwise no Synergy.

No MS MVP meetings this year

i will be testing out the ubnt 10g with a few different hci products so will let you all know how it goes

They moved it to March 2018.

Really, so then we need to get MVPs by then @Jarian Gibson 🙂

@User prague here 🙂

I'm doing 1 day CTP, Synergy and E2E, flying out Friday night

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@User shop mellanox sx6036

Last Thurs., picked one SX6036 up on ebay for $400

WHAT, that was stolen from where 😉

The seller had 3 for sale. http://www.ebay.com/itm/222396212081?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Already sold!

Damn...I knew I should have bought 2 & resold 1

anyone ever built a nutanix CE cluster based on dell r710/720? dell raid controllers seem to be a bit tricky. undecided if it's worth the time/trouble and $$$ to try or just stick with XenServer 😉

No but I really want to. I have some of that hardware laying around. I think for the SSD you need a specific controller model. I forget which one.

PERC H700 and H710p here, seems to be some sort rebranded LSI

That's exactly what those are - along with the custom Dell RAID controller stuff and inflated price tag. 😠

We have SSDs on older R710/720 no problem. Perc 6,7,8 work fine.

@User do you run serial ATA or SAS in your 710/720?

FYI : https://community.mellanox.com/docs/DOC-2726

@dready : SAS.

@User also for SSD?

Actually, the controllers will do a mix of either or. We have both SAS and SATA, mostly SAS.

"The real problem here is the raid card, perc6ir is currently no good for SSDs in a nutanix install, youll need something that will do IT mode/passthrough which seems to be every other raid controller except perc6ir"

something for you @dready - https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/5gxdai/rate_my_rack_nutanix_ce_cluster/

"... so look for something with a h700 or similar", seems that the h700/710p should work so. 🙂

The 7XX series is much newer, so should certainly work I would imagine. We have mixed SAS/SATA on an R715 that has the same Perc 6 I think as the 710. Even though it's a SAS controller, it has SATA capabilities.

Ah, good point. Only the old H310 does passthrough -- maybe the newest 7XX model, I'm not sure. That or buy an LSI controller that does support passthrough and use it. Works in standard PCI slots. I'd have to look up the model we use for our SDS solution.