SuperMicro X10SLH-F vs SuperMicro X10SAT

[rufik]

Hello

After huge investigation what exactly board take for my lab.
I'm confused about this two boards.

Main difference are:

IPMI for X10SLH-F
More PCI-E 3.0 slot for X10SAT

http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10SAT.cfm

Form Factor ATX

PCI-Express
3x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots -
Function as: 16/NA/NA or 8/8/NA or 8/4/4
3x PCI-E 2.0 x1 (in x4) slots

http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10SLH-F.cfm

Form Factor uATX

PCI-Express
1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 (in x16) slot
1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 slot
1x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8) slot


Please tell me, what mainbord you would to take ?
For virtualization lab IPMI is it important or not ?

I want to have all cool features, but there is hard to achieve that.


SuperMicro X10SLH-F or SuperMicro X10SAT ????

 

[_Gea]

Hello

After huge investigation what exactly board take for my lab.
I'm confused about this two boards.

Main difference are:

IPMI for X10SLH-F
More PCI-E 3.0 slot for X10SAT

http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10SAT.cfm

Form Factor ATX

PCI-Express
3x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots -
Function as: 16/NA/NA or 8/8/NA or 8/4/4
3x PCI-E 2.0 x1 (in x4) slots

http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10SLH-F.cfm

Form Factor uATX

PCI-Express
1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 (in x16) slot
1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 slot
1x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8) slot


Please tell me, what mainbord you would to take ?
For virtualization lab IPMI is it important or not ?

I want to have all cool features, but there is hard to achieve that.


SuperMicro X10SLH-F or SuperMicro X10SAT ????

For a virtualization lab, the server line is better suited than the workstation line
so I would prefer the boards with IPMI remote management.

For a virtualization lab, especially if you may consider All-In-One or storage solutions one day,
consider a X10SL7-F with one of the best LSI SAS controllers onboard or eventually a
X9SRH-7TF with max 512 GB RAM, the same LSI controller and Dual 10 GbE as well.

 

[rufik]

For a virtualization lab, the server line is better suited than the workstation line
so I would prefer the boards with IPMI remote management.

For a virtualization lab, especially if you may consider All-In-One or storage solutions one day,
consider a X10SL7-F with one of the best LSI SAS controllers onboard or eventually a
X9SRH-7TF with max 512 GB RAM, the same LSI controller and Dual 10 GbE as well.

Hi
For RAID soultion i have bought external LSI raid controller LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i
http://www.lsi.com/products/raid-controllers/pages/megaraid-sas-9271-8i.aspx

So basicly, i dont have so much pressure for on board raid controller

 

[rufik]

So is there any conclusion ?

 

[DanaG]

The description page for the X10SAT actually specifies that it has a Thunderbolt port, interestingly enough.

In terms of remote access, the X10SAT claims to have Intel AMT/vPro. Assuming Supermicro hasn't done anything stupid, this means it has built-in Serial-over-LAN and KVM. You can even make it listen on the standard VNC port, out-of-band, while preserving Intel's real GPU. This sure beats the crappy Java viewer and ASPEED (more like ASLOW) controller in many servers.

About the only downside I can think of for vPro is that it lacks logging, e-mail alerting, and SNMP features.

 

[rufik]

not enought...

 

[DanaG]

I found a few more disadvantages of Intel vPro: No NMI switch function, and no way to send "break" (for Magic SysRq) over the Serial-over-LAN interface.