* Anyone running Illumos/OI on an HP Z820?
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@ 2021-03-04 2:33 ` Reginald Beardsley
2021-03-04 2:41 ` [discuss] " Robert Mustacchi
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From: Reginald Beardsley @ 2021-03-04 2:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm contemplating buying a real beast as the off lease systems available via ebay, etc are quite staggering for the hardware you get.
They are Solaris 11 certified as well as Linux supported, but I don't care for Linux and Larry wants far too much for Solaris 11. Which leaves the device driver problem. I know people are running OI on Z800s, but I've not heard anyone mention a Z820.
Anyone have experience with one?
One other question. memorystock.com offers 8 GB DIMMS for the Z400, but HP only supports 4 GB DIMMS. Has anyone run 8 GB DIMMS in a Z400?
Thanks,
Reg
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* Re: [discuss] Anyone running Illumos/OI on an HP Z820?
2021-03-04 2:33 ` Anyone running Illumos/OI on an HP Z820? Reginald Beardsley
@ 2021-03-04 2:41 ` Robert Mustacchi
2021-03-04 2:52 ` Reginald Beardsley
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From: Robert Mustacchi @ 2021-03-04 2:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 3/3/21 6:33 PM, Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss wrote:
> I'm contemplating buying a real beast as the off lease systems available via ebay, etc are quite staggering for the hardware you get.
>
> They are Solaris 11 certified as well as Linux supported, but I don't care for Linux and Larry wants far too much for Solaris 11. Which leaves the device driver problem. I know people are running OI on Z800s, but I've not heard anyone mention a Z820.
>
> Anyone have experience with one?
>
> One other question. memorystock.com offers 8 GB DIMMS for the Z400, but HP only supports 4 GB DIMMS. Has anyone run 8 GB DIMMS in a Z400?
The core platform based on the HP quickspecs should be reasonably well
supported. It will come down to the specifics of the particular
configuration (e.g. SATA vs. SAS, GPUs, other NICs, etc.). Of those
peripherals, I'd expect the most problems and complications with the GPU.
Robert
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* Re: [discuss] Anyone running Illumos/OI on an HP Z820?
2021-03-04 2:41 ` [discuss] " Robert Mustacchi
@ 2021-03-04 2:52 ` Reginald Beardsley
2021-03-04 17:44 ` Sherman W
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From: Reginald Beardsley @ 2021-03-04 2:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: illumos-discuss
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I'm a number cruncher. I've got several nVidia Quadro FX1700/1800 cards so I'm not concerned about those. They are well supported. This would really be more compute server than workstation.
The appeal is having up to 512 GB of RAM and up to 20+ cores with a 10-20 TB RAIDZ3 disk array for very serious number crunching on seriously large datasets.
I wouldn't expect issues, but I'd hate to drop $2k and have Linux rammed down my throat.
Reg
On Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 08:42:21 PM CST, Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org> wrote:
On 3/3/21 6:33 PM, Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss wrote:
> I'm contemplating buying a real beast as the off lease systems available via ebay, etc are quite staggering for the hardware you get.
>
> They are Solaris 11 certified as well as Linux supported, but I don't care for Linux and Larry wants far too much for Solaris 11. Which leaves the device driver problem. I know people are running OI on Z800s, but I've not heard anyone mention a Z820.
>
> Anyone have experience with one?
>
> One other question. memorystock.com offers 8 GB DIMMS for the Z400, but HP only supports 4 GB DIMMS. Has anyone run 8 GB DIMMS in a Z400?
The core platform based on the HP quickspecs should be reasonably well
supported. It will come down to the specifics of the particular
configuration (e.g. SATA vs. SAS, GPUs, other NICs, etc.). Of those
peripherals, I'd expect the most problems and complications with the GPU.
Robert
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* Re: [discuss] Anyone running Illumos/OI on an HP Z820?
2021-03-04 2:52 ` Reginald Beardsley
@ 2021-03-04 17:44 ` Sherman W
2021-03-05 0:11 ` Reginald Beardsley
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I'm running OpenIndiana on a Z820 for pretty much the reason you specified
- good price-performance for an off lease system + upgrades via ebay. No
real issues I can think of, though I'm using a fairly limited subset of the
hardware -- all drives on the SAS controller, nVidia NVS 510 for the
display, and both NICs. If I remember correctly audio was working last
time I checked, but can't speak to the quality.
As a side note, Z840 heatsinks can be used on a Z820, and the extra
heatpipes on the Z840 heatsink should improve cooling and acoustics.
Sherman
On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 6:54 PM Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss <
discuss@lists.illumos.org> wrote:
>
>
> I'm a number cruncher. I've got several nVidia Quadro FX1700/1800 cards so
> I'm not concerned about those. They are well supported. This would really
> be more compute server than workstation.
>
> The appeal is having up to 512 GB of RAM and up to 20+ cores with a 10-20
> TB RAIDZ3 disk array for very serious number crunching on seriously large
> datasets.
>
> I wouldn't expect issues, but I'd hate to drop $2k and have Linux rammed
> down my throat.
>
> Reg
> On Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 08:42:21 PM CST, Robert Mustacchi <
> rm@fingolfin.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/3/21 6:33 PM, Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss wrote:
>
> > I'm contemplating buying a real beast as the off lease systems available
> via ebay, etc are quite staggering for the hardware you get.
> >
> > They are Solaris 11 certified as well as Linux supported, but I don't
> care for Linux and Larry wants far too much for Solaris 11. Which leaves
> the device driver problem. I know people are running OI on Z800s, but I've
> not heard anyone mention a Z820.
> >
> > Anyone have experience with one?
> >
> > One other question. memorystock.com offers 8 GB DIMMS for the Z400,
> but HP only supports 4 GB DIMMS. Has anyone run 8 GB DIMMS in a Z400?
>
>
> The core platform based on the HP quickspecs should be reasonably well
> supported. It will come down to the specifics of the particular
> configuration (e.g. SATA vs. SAS, GPUs, other NICs, etc.). Of those
> peripherals, I'd expect the most problems and complications with the GPU.
>
> Robert
>
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* Re: [discuss] Anyone running Illumos/OI on an HP Z820?
2021-03-04 17:44 ` Sherman W
@ 2021-03-05 0:11 ` Reginald Beardsley
2025-03-30 3:29 ` me via illumos-discuss
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From: Reginald Beardsley @ 2021-03-05 0:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thanks. The Sun/Oracle HCL mentions audio issues (not supported for the C602 chipset) , but I'm not at all concerned about that. I'll probably run SATA in a RAIDZ3 configuration.
Reg
On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 11:46:47 AM CST, Sherman W <shermanw@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm running OpenIndiana on a Z820 for pretty much the reason you specified - good price-performance for an off lease system + upgrades via ebay. No real issues I can think of, though I'm using a fairly limited subset of the hardware -- all drives on the SAS controller, nVidia NVS 510 for the display, and both NICs. If I remember correctly audio was working last time I checked, but can't speak to the quality.
As a side note, Z840 heatsinks can be used on a Z820, and the extra heatpipes on the Z840 heatsink should improve cooling and acoustics.
Sherman
On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 6:54 PM Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss <discuss@lists.illumos.org> wrote:
I'm a number cruncher. I've got several nVidia Quadro FX1700/1800 cards so I'm not concerned about those. They are well supported. This would really be more compute server than workstation.
The appeal is having up to 512 GB of RAM and up to 20+ cores with a 10-20 TB RAIDZ3 disk array for very serious number crunching on seriously large datasets.
I wouldn't expect issues, but I'd hate to drop $2k and have Linux rammed down my throat.
Reg
On Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 08:42:21 PM CST, Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org> wrote:
On 3/3/21 6:33 PM, Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss wrote:
> I'm contemplating buying a real beast as the off lease systems available via ebay, etc are quite staggering for the hardware you get.
>
> They are Solaris 11 certified as well as Linux supported, but I don't care for Linux and Larry wants far too much for Solaris 11. Which leaves the device driver problem. I know people are running OI on Z800s, but I've not heard anyone mention a Z820.
>
> Anyone have experience with one?
>
> One other question. memorystock.com offers 8 GB DIMMS for the Z400, but HP only supports 4 GB DIMMS. Has anyone run 8 GB DIMMS in a Z400?
The core platform based on the HP quickspecs should be reasonably well
supported. It will come down to the specifics of the particular
configuration (e.g. SATA vs. SAS, GPUs, other NICs, etc.). Of those
peripherals, I'd expect the most problems and complications with the GPU.
Robert
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* Re: [discuss] Anyone running Illumos/OI on an HP Z820?
2021-03-05 0:11 ` Reginald Beardsley
@ 2025-03-30 3:29 ` me via illumos-discuss
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Sorry for rising this particular topic, but that seems to be my best option to find somebody with experience in running Illumos-based OS on HP Z820.
I got one recently, as it's still a good option in my area. It works, I've installed the latest SmartOS on it and I'm going to upgrade the hardware a bit, but I'm a bit troubled, as `prtdiag` and related utilities return nothing:
> prtdiag: failed to open SMBIOS: System does not export an SMBIOS table
So, is it that I just didn't find the right BIOS settings combination (I've tried some) or this particular chipset is *that* unsupported?
Any info or advice is highly appreciated.
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