[mythtv-users] Small backend server with IPMI (remote virtual console access)?
Scott Knight
scott at scottknight.com
Wed Jul 17 13:20:52 UTC 2013
on 7/16/2013 4:23 PM Tom Harris carved the following into a picnic table:
> So, I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for IPMI enabled servers
> suitable for MythTV. My preference is to go as small as possible.
> My current backend is an Atom/Ion system with a couple USB drives.
> The candidates I've located thus far are:
<snip>
> 2. Supermicro SYS-5015A 1U Atom server. Excellent option, low power
> Atom-based. But, it's a rack mount form factor. So it's probably
> loud and it's larger than what I want.
I have never been happier with my servers since I built them out with
the bigger brother SuperMicro X9SCM-F mainboard:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCM-F.cfm
With a Xeon E3-2130 CPU and decent case, it is powerful, fairly low
power consumption (for a server) and very quiet. The IPMI is a godsend
and I will never go back to running a server without it. I come from a
world of Sun (SC/iLOM/aLOM) and Dell (DRAC/iDRAC) enterprise servers and
place the out of band access as one of the top requirements.
Fortunately, I have space for the 4U rack mount cases that have many
large PWM fans for cooling. I have never met a 1U server case that I
could stand using in my house. They are all just too loud. If I were
really that concerned about space, I would probably buy the raw
mainboard and fab up some kind of open frame system for cooling. With
external drives, you can probably just run this with a picoPSU and
ambient passive cooling. There are also a few A/V cases that would
probably work quite well. They are quite expensive, but I have always
been partial to the HDPLEX products.
Good luck, Scott
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