Oliveiras Posted April 5, 2016 #1 Posted April 5, 2016 Hello, I've been looking for this servers for some time now, along side the HP DL180 G6, but now I have a good deal for a pair of FS12-TY but the same seller also have the R510 with the exact same config ( 2xL5630 / 32GB (8x4GB) / H700 512mb / 1x750W ) but for 130€ more each. For what I've researched the R510 is more upgradable and it have better driver support and also is VMware 5.5 compatible instead of the 5.1 FS12-TY. I will use these servers for xpenology only to store backups or if they won't work for this in the future I might install Vmware in it later. Any advice on what to choose guys, the R510 or FS12-TY based C2100 ? Thanks Posted via Xpenology.us
Benoire Posted April 17, 2016 #2 Posted April 17, 2016 Which one did you choose in the end? I'm looking at C2100s as they're cheaper to import in to New Zealand for some reason but I want to run mine as a bare metal Xpenology build; if you got one, did the boot image work fine?
Oliveiras Posted May 28, 2016 Author #3 Posted May 28, 2016 Hi, I've choosed the C2100 FS12-TY (2x L5630 / 32GB DDR3 / H700) and I'm running xpenology DSM 5.2-5592 Update 2 baremetal since it have IPMI included and 2x 2.5" HDD inside for SSD and also 18 DDR3 slots for future upgrades or if I want to convert the machine to a VMware host. Been doing some tests and tune ups but everything works 90% OK till I sort everything up: -replaced H700 for a H310 crossflashed to LSI-9211-8i (done) -BIOS reverted to B16 so it can load VMware ESXi in the future (done) -BMC reverted to v1.70 for lower fan noise (done) -added mellanox 10GBe nic card (done) -CPU load in xpenology is allways at 10% don't know why, and CPU is not throtled back, is allways at 2.13Ghz (100%) at idle! -don't know how or if needed to activate write cache in xpenology (gives error), since I'm not having too good write speeds for 12x 3.5" HDD and H310 card (130 - 150 MB/s with 10GBe network) have to do more tests But it's working, not at 100% but it's ok.
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