[OmniOS-discuss] E5-2600 v3 Haswell

[Dan McDonald]

On Sep 11, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Jon Hull <jhull at jncs.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> On a Supermicro X10DRI with dual E5-2650V3 and 64GB DDR4 2133 RDIMM ram, I was able to install OmniOS r151010u with no noticeable problems.  
> 

Oh this is great news.  Both that the r151010u disk is working for someone else (older version of it had... brokenness), and that it installs on the Haswell-E platform.

> The board has 1g nics and those worked fine (igb). I was supposed to get a 10g version of the board but my boss sold it before I had a chance to test it out.

The "10g" may actually be a 40g with 4x 10G ports.  If it's the part I'm thinking about, it's the "i40e", which illumos does not yet support.  Do you know what 1GigE "igb" part it is?  Is it I350, or something newer?

> The sata ports worked in ahci mode.

As they should.  Excellent.  (How many do you get?)

> I was not able to try the USB3 but there was options in the bios to disable USB3. Not sure if this disables the ports altogether or just makes them USB2. 

It *should* just make them USB2, and I'm glad the BIOS lets you disable that.  We don't have USB3 in illumos yet either.

> For a pretty basic server board, everything seemed to work right on boot.

This is a dual-socket board, you said?  I'd be interested to know if you see any odd latencies - I've seen {Sandy,Ivy} Bridge-E boards occasionally exhibit odd latencies with 10GigE, but it was very difficult to characterize and reproduce.

Nonetheless, this is good news!

Thanks,
Dan