Hardware question

[mitch.watson@scarrittgrou]

New to the forum, we are looking to build a Proxmox cluster on a Supermicro 2-node 2U Bigtwin Superserver. We are looking at Xenon Silver 4510 12 core procs. I asked Supermicro if they had any known compatibility issues, but they have not certified Proxmox yet. We are currently running Proxmox on 7-year-old hardware and have no issues. Does anyone have any feedback?

Thanks

 

[Dunuin]

No experience here with that specific hardware. But as a rule of thumb: If the hardware supports the latest Ubuntu LTS and Debian it should also run PVE. Because PVE is based on Debian but uses the Ubuntu LTS kernel. So you might want to have a look if that servers hardware is on the Ubuntu hardware compatability list.

 

[mitch.watson@scarrittgrou]

Well thanks I did not think of that, the system is not listed but there is another system just like it so I think we should be good.

 

[LnxBil]

Xenon Silver 4510 12 core

Why don't buy a faster Xeon CPU? I really hate that most people just buy many core yet slow cpus, that are in the end not utilized properly and the whole system could be so much faster with better single core performance. I see this in EVERY migration I did.

 

[mitch.watson@scarrittgrou]

I would agree with you except that cost comes into play at times.

 

[LnxBil]

I would agree with you except that cost comes into play at times.

Sure, yet in most machines i see, the CPU is not the major part of the costs, its the disks and the ram, so spending a little bit more on the cpu is feasible in my opinion, yet YMMV.