[OmniOS-discuss] supermicro A1SRM-2558F

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Michael Rasmussen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Anyone tried Omnios on this board?
>
> There is also an 8-core version A1SRM-2758F would the extra 4 cores be
> worth the extra money?

While there may be some rough-edges and disabled features for a while, 
Xeon D seems like a much better investment than an Atom CPU with an 
extra 4 cores.  This is also a low power SOC, but with quite a lot 
better performance than Atom and more/better integrated interfaces.

See:

   http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/#1667

I have a system with one of these motherboards on order but have not 
yet heard about specific issues with OmniOS except that the 10Gb-E 
interfaces will not be supported right away, and there was mention of 
"weirdness with asy port" with early hardware on an Illumos list. 
Hopefully I will have news within the next two weeks.

Bob
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