Your Supermicro demo room visits are the best! Also if you get a chance to compare the HoneyBadger vs the AOC-SHG3-4M2P with M.2 drives you showed off, that would definitely be an amazing video. (Partly because Honey Badger says they have some secret sauce in the PCIE switch that makes the I/O better)
Its very right of you to disclose the funding for this video. Its ethical. A lot of others dont disclose even if their videos are completely controlled by the corporates, they forget that they are on the customer side and not on the company's side. Keep it up STH.
The flexibility of this node is quite impressive. 64 lanes for PCIE (4 x 16 or 8 x 8), 32 lanes for AIOM (OCP), and 24 lanes 6 direct connected NVME - very nicely done. MB can support 8 NVME but space seems to be an issue and leaving some dedicated processing is fine too. Thanks for video.
I have been longing for USB-C KVMs and KVM ports on servers. Imagine, an isolated management network, served up by the same cable, that provides USB, video, and power for the BMC in case of a catastrophic failure, also, personally, i'd be using them for working on dozens of laptops at once, and dont want to have a huge bundle of power cables along with the USB-C KVM. a 2U KVM with a 1500w PSU would be awesome. Would aso be cool for those little 30w LEnovo and Dell micro PCs like the M90N and that little PC that fits inside of the Dell monitor stands
Talking about the IPMI @3:37 " ... that's the only networking port you'll see on the BACK of the system ... " - that is the FRONT of it ;-) Great review, as always! Thank you.
Yes. The four videos we shot were unscripted. Literally picked some machines out and put them on a cart in the demo room and started talking about them.
Looks really cool except for the proprietary, or non-standard, pcie hot swap slots (AIOM). Lenovo/IBM use to do something similar and it really kills the reusability and upgradeability of a system.
@@ServeTheHomeVideo It's a different, albeit similar, form factor though. I had to do a little digging and while the connection is OCP 3.0 compliant the slot itself is not the same size. You would need a sled and/or face plate for anything not Supermicro AIOM specific. At least from what I can find is there doesn't seem to be a lot of accessible information on this.
I don't understand that LAST feature you mentioned: Service tags on the Front AND Back....I didn't see any types of tags anywhere lol maybe I'm missing something... I guess it would help if I wasn't playing catch-up since I last went to school for network admin stuff about 22 years ago.
Yeah, the b-roll on that part is a little bit unfortunate as the service tags wasn't actually pulled out, but you can see the pullout tabs for the tags (over the left most drivebay & then to the right side of the right most expansion bay)
@@ServeTheHomeVideo Thanks for the heads up. Sounds pretty ridiculous on their part to make a system being sold as modular, non reversible considering the power supplies, cables, and NIC cards are less likely to need swapping over storage drives, I mean you'd have to pull out and disassemble the system anyways to swap the 8 PCI-E devices so in the long run it's not really saving the IT person too much time over the lifetime of the server.
@@festro1000 I think the point is prioritising the connections, not swapping the cards themselves. There's likely a model just like this in the reverse config just as you want.
@@ServeTheHomeVideoIt's really upsetting when the algorithm makes these kinds of choices for me. Guess I have to binge a bunch of your content to bring you back into the feed. I wonder who I'll lose from my feed as a result. Very silly system TH-cam has
2000w on a C14 plug? If it weren't for the fact that these systems are very niche, and going to DC's that know what they are doing, i'd be concerned. The C13/14/15 plugs aren't usually used for this power level, C19/20 is. Most C13/14/15 cables you find in a datacenter, does not have the wire gauge to handle 2000W, even at 230v, let alone 120v. So if you plugged this server in with "normal" C13/14/15 cables, you could easily have molten cables. AWG 18 and 20, and 0.75 and 1.0mm2 is what is usually is found on these cables, neither is suited for 2000w at 120v, 18AWG and 1.0mm2 is JUST enough at 230w, but the cables WILL get hot. Ideally you should use 14 or 12AWG cables for this server, which is common for C19/20 but not C13/14/15.
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Your Supermicro demo room visits are the best! Also if you get a chance to compare the HoneyBadger vs the AOC-SHG3-4M2P with M.2 drives you showed off, that would definitely be an amazing video. (Partly because Honey Badger says they have some secret sauce in the PCIE switch that makes the I/O better)
Its very right of you to disclose the funding for this video. Its ethical. A lot of others dont disclose even if their videos are completely controlled by the corporates, they forget that they are on the customer side and not on the company's side. Keep it up STH.
The flexibility of this node is quite impressive. 64 lanes for PCIE (4 x 16 or 8 x 8), 32 lanes for AIOM (OCP), and 24 lanes 6 direct connected NVME - very nicely done. MB can support 8 NVME but space seems to be an issue and leaving some dedicated processing is fine too. Thanks for video.
I have been longing for USB-C KVMs and KVM ports on servers. Imagine, an isolated management network, served up by the same cable, that provides USB, video, and power for the BMC in case of a catastrophic failure, also, personally, i'd be using them for working on dozens of laptops at once, and dont want to have a huge bundle of power cables along with the USB-C KVM. a 2U KVM with a 1500w PSU would be awesome. Would aso be cool for those little 30w LEnovo and Dell micro PCs like the M90N and that little PC that fits inside of the Dell monitor stands
Amazing server , great overview!
Talking about the IPMI @3:37 " ... that's the only networking port you'll see on the BACK of the system ... " - that is the FRONT of it ;-)
Great review, as always! Thank you.
Yes. The four videos we shot were unscripted. Literally picked some machines out and put them on a cart in the demo room and started talking about them.
@@ServeTheHomeVideo It all looking so coherent is a combination of great presentation & great editing! Well done
Shower thought: Super, micro and hyper are all prefixes...
And "e", as in eMMC, eDRAM, eBay, eMail, ....
Patrick didn't bother to say the confusing Intel CPU SKUs, and I glad to know that.
Gotta respect the fact that supermicro didn't give you a script.
Amazing content once again, thank you!
That looks like itd be ideal for something like a telecom box, given how short it is
This is super cool but I have no idea what use case it would have outside of a dev lab.
I wonder if they'll to an epyc version of this?
Looks really cool except for the proprietary, or non-standard, pcie hot swap slots (AIOM). Lenovo/IBM use to do something similar and it really kills the reusability and upgradeability of a system.
AIOM is OCP NIC 3.0 compatible.
@@ServeTheHomeVideo It's a different, albeit similar, form factor though. I had to do a little digging and while the connection is OCP 3.0 compliant the slot itself is not the same size. You would need a sled and/or face plate for anything not Supermicro AIOM specific. At least from what I can find is there doesn't seem to be a lot of accessible information on this.
2:40 - The PSUs use a regular IEC C13/C14 power connector, but you say they're 2 kW. ==> 240V only?
9:26 - 10:34 New Xeon generation supports 8-channel DDR4-3200 with 128x PCIe 4.0?
THANK YOU, AMD!
EPYC or bust!
I don't understand that LAST feature you mentioned: Service tags on the Front AND Back....I didn't see any types of tags anywhere lol maybe I'm missing something... I guess it would help if I wasn't playing catch-up since I last went to school for network admin stuff about 22 years ago.
Yeah, the b-roll on that part is a little bit unfortunate as the service tags wasn't actually pulled out, but you can see the pullout tabs for the tags (over the left most drivebay & then to the right side of the right most expansion bay)
If only it would take rtx 3090 GPUs cause their enterprise counterparts are much more expensive. Cool system for sure.
I'm curious, lets say you wanted to have the fans and storage bays in front would it be easy if at all possible to swap the front and back?
You would probably get a different model instead of swapping.
@@ServeTheHomeVideo Thanks for the heads up. Sounds pretty ridiculous on their part to make a system being sold as modular, non reversible considering the power supplies, cables, and NIC cards are less likely to need swapping over storage drives, I mean you'd have to pull out and disassemble the system anyways to swap the 8 PCI-E devices so in the long run it's not really saving the IT person too much time over the lifetime of the server.
@@festro1000 I think the point is prioritising the connections, not swapping the cards themselves.
There's likely a model just like this in the reverse config just as you want.
Important question… did you touch anything that was _not_ cool at SuperMicro?
If it is not cool, it does not get a video.
Wonder how long till I see one of these in my lab 😂
Wait.. no road drive video? :)
Had to use the new studio's 2nd set for the first time here!
Oh you are still making videos, they just haven't been making it into my feed 😐
What can you do :-(
@@ServeTheHomeVideoIt's really upsetting when the algorithm makes these kinds of choices for me. Guess I have to binge a bunch of your content to bring you back into the feed. I wonder who I'll lose from my feed as a result. Very silly system TH-cam has
2000w on a C14 plug?
If it weren't for the fact that these systems are very niche, and going to DC's that know what they are doing, i'd be concerned.
The C13/14/15 plugs aren't usually used for this power level, C19/20 is.
Most C13/14/15 cables you find in a datacenter, does not have the wire gauge to handle 2000W, even at 230v, let alone 120v.
So if you plugged this server in with "normal" C13/14/15 cables, you could easily have molten cables.
AWG 18 and 20, and 0.75 and 1.0mm2 is what is usually is found on these cables, neither is suited for 2000w at 120v, 18AWG and 1.0mm2 is JUST enough at 230w, but the cables WILL get hot.
Ideally you should use 14 or 12AWG cables for this server, which is common for C19/20 but not C13/14/15.
Anyone know the brand of heat sinks for the NVMe cards?
404 on main site article :P - EDIT: WORKS NOW, and FIRST!
Looks like there was a few minutes between when YT published and the STH article published got synced on the web hosting side. Should be online.
FYI: NOBODY cares if you're the first comment 🤬
@@boomertsfx1 I never got that either. His girlfriend/boyfriend must be so proud ;)
Supermicro's demo lab sucks, no big scaffolding to hang servers from!
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