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New ransomware attack hits thousands of servers worldwide
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New ransomware attack hits thousands of servers worldwide by John Callaham Italy's National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) has sent out an alert stating that a ransomware attack has hit thousands of servers worldwide. Reuters (via Nikkei Asia) reports that a software vulnerability was used to hit the servers. Cybernews reports that the exploit was found in VMware software, but a patch to close the exploit was actually issued by the company in 2021. The report says that while the ransomware incident has compromised a number of Italy's servers, the same attack also hit servers in other European countries like France and Finland. In addition, it affected servers in the US and Canada, according to the report. A spokesperson for the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency stated that the government is working to find out how much of an impact the attacks have had, and will offer assistance to those companies affected by the attack. Cybernews reports that the group that's in charge of this attack are reportedly directing affected users to access an encrypted messaging service in order to pay the ransom. A follow-up report from Reuters does have a quote from an Italy government spokesperson, stating that it does not believe that this attack was sponsored by an enemy state. It added that so far that this incident has not affected any major companies or businesses that are a part of national security. Source: Reuters via Nikkei Asia Update: CISA has now provided a recovery script for the attack. -
Meta is upgrading its networks with PTP time sync protocol
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Meta is upgrading its networks with PTP time sync protocol by Anushe Fawaz Meta has announced the addition of a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) technology for its metaverse, which reduces the time lag between platforms and improves synchronization for different devices. PTP, launched in 2002, enables computer networks across multiple locations to sync down to nanoseconds. Initially, PTP helped synchronize computer clocks globally. It is different from its predecessor, Network Time Protocol, in terms of accuracy as PTP synchronizes clocks down to a millionth of a second. Meta argues the lack of sync can cause delays, network failures, and errors. It mentions how the addition of PTP to Meta’s data centers allows for more synchronization for users during texting and video calls, playing games online, or exploring the Meta Horizon Worlds in the metaverse. Meta adds: “With PTP, the clocks within servers can be synchronized down to nanoseconds. We believe that PTP has the potential to enable synchronization of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) across data centers, which could open up unprecedented AI capabilities that are difficult to achieve today. This level of accuracy will help ensure synchronization of not only the computers on our networks today, but also the advanced systems that will be on our networks in the future.” The company further shared that PTP will become a fundamental aspect of technologies powering the metaverse. According to the blog post, Meta mentions it open-sourced the software and hardware needed to support the inculcation of PTP to the company’s data centers. More details about the deployment of PTP by Meta can be found here. -
Samsung starts mass production of its 8th gen V-NAND memory
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Samsung starts mass production of its 8th gen V-NAND memory by Paul Hill Samsung has started mass-producing its latest 1 TB 8th generation V-NAND memory. According to the Korean company, this technology offers the industry’s highest bit density and at 1 TB also offers the highest storage capacity to date. It said that this will enable larger storage space in next-gen enterprise servers worldwide. Providing comment for the company, SungHoi Hur, Executive Vice President of Flash Product & Technology at Samsung Electronics, said: “As market demand for denser, greater-capacity storage pushes for higher V-NAND layer counts, Samsung has adopted its advanced 3D scaling technology to reduce surface area and height, while avoiding the cell-to-cell interference that normally occurs with scaling down. Our eighth-generation V-NAND will help meet rapidly growing market demand and better position us to deliver more differentiated products and solutions, which will be at the very foundation of future storage innovations.” With the latest generation of V-NAND memory from Samsung, customers can expect an input and output speed of up to 2.4 gigabits per second (Gbps), up from 2 Gbps in the seventh generation. Samsung says that this speed boost will help to meet the performance requirements of PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0. Aside from being used in enterprise servers to expand the available storage, Samsung says that 8th gen V-NAND will also be used in the automotive market and provide the required reliability. -
Intense heatwave across UK brings down Google, Oracle cloud infrastructure
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Intense heatwave across UK brings down Google, Oracle cloud infrastructure by Anushe Fawaz Europe, including the U.K., has been in the grip of an unprecedented heatwave that has reportedly caused widespread droughts and wildfires. The soaring temperatures have taken their toll on the hardware equipment in Google and Oracle data centres in the London and Europe-west regions. Their cooling systems have malfunctioned, causing latencies and disruptions in cloud services, as they went offline for some hours yesterday. Nikos Christidis, a climate attribution scientist at the UK Met Office, while warning data service providers about future climate changes, stated, "Climate change has already influenced the likelihood of temperature extremes in the UK. The chances of seeing 40°C days in the UK could be as much as 10 times more likely in the current climate than under a natural climate unaffected by human influence. The likelihood of exceeding 40°C anywhere in the UK in a given year has also been rapidly increasing, and, even with current pledges on emissions reductions, such extremes could be taking place every 15 years in the climate of 2100." Google had reported the incident and its causes, along with the timeline of events. During this period, multiple Google products and services were experiencing elevated error rates, latency, and outright absence of service in some regions. This included BigQuery, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Firestore, Compute, Google Kubernetes Engine, Bigtable, App Engine, Data Fusion, and Composer. Following up, the company has now reported that most of its systems have been restored to normal. Similarly, Oracle has also confirmed now that issues emanating from cooling infrastructure failure have been resolved and its customers using multiple services should now experience recovery across the board. Earlier, it had to power down some systems of service to prevent uncontrolled hardware failures from heat build-up. For this, non-critical hardware had to be switched off before carrying out cooling systems repairs. Via: News Nine -
Quad9 DNS coverage gets a boost in Europe through i3D.net partnership
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Quad9 DNS coverage gets a boost in Europe through i3D.net partnership by Paul Hill Quad9, the popular DNS service, has announced that it has partnered with i3D.net (which was previously acquired by Ubisoft) to boost its coverage in Europe. It said that the additional servers provided by i3D.net in Europe will allow it to deliver a safer and more stable DNS experience for users around the world. Quad9 said the servers are being provided by i3D.net in the form of a corporate sponsorship. The low-latency network consists of thousands of servers spread over six continents. Commenting on the partnership, Danielle Deibler, Chief Security Officer for Quad9, said: “We’re excited to add i3D.net’s robust network capacity to the Quad9 global footprint. Their generous sponsorship gives Quad9 users increased performance and extends DNS protection for the whole Internet. We can attribute about 30 million blocking events in the past month to these i3D.net sites.” Aside from making Quad9’s DNS services more stable, they also boost security as the additional capacity increases the threat intelligence in the Quad9 ecosystem. If the latest development has sparked your interest in Quad9’s DNS offering, you can learn how to set up the DNS service on different devices or your router. -
Gigabyte servers will be certified for use with Ubuntu Server
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Gigabyte servers will be certified for use with Ubuntu Server by Paul Hill Gigabyte has announced a partnership with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, which will see its server hardware receive certification to capably run Ubuntu Server. The certification will allow customers to reliably install Ubuntu Server on Gigabyte hardware and allow Gigabyte to provide better support for end-users. Ubuntu Server is one of the most popular operating systems for people to install on server hardware so by ensuring its hardware is compatible with Ubuntu Server, it’s likely that Gigabyte will receive more custom. Unlike desktop systems, where Windows is dominant, Linux dominates on servers. One of the most popular Linux server distros happens to be Ubuntu Server so this certification drive is important. Explaining what needs to be done to be certified, Gigabyte said: “To receive certification from Canonical, systems must meet a number of performance and reliability criteria. Hardware and operating system tests ensure compatibility with Ubuntu Server OS for the two most recent Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) versions. It should be possible to provision the server with an operating system using metal as a service (MAAS) to change bare metal into an elastic cloud-like resource. Additional criteria cover stress testing, network bandwidth and storage I/O testing.” As servers become certified, they’ll be added to a list of devices over on the Ubuntu website, Gigabyte said that if customers want specific servers certified then they can get in touch directly through server.grp@gigabyte.com. -
AMD unveils its third-gen EPYC server CPUs with Zen 3 cores
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AMD unveils its third-gen EPYC server CPUs with Zen 3 cores by João Carrasqueira As the company had announced a few days ago, AMD today took the wraps off the third generation of EPYC CPUs, geared towards the server market. These are the first EPYC processors based on the Zen 3 core architecture that debuted with the Ryzen 5000 series, and they promise up to a 19% increase in instructions per clock compared to the previous generation. The lineup includes processors with anywhere from eight to 64 cores, and between 16 and 128 threads, and they include support for things like 4-6-8 channel memory interleaving. AMD is claiming to have the highest performing server CPU - the 64-core EPYC 7763 - as well as the highest performance per core, though that refers to the eight-core EPYC 72F3 in a dual-socket system. AMD shared some performance numbers comparing its lineup to Intel offerings, which show that AMD is ahead in performance in multiple categories, though it's worth noting that the CPUs used in each of the comparisons don't cost the same. For example, the Intel Xeon Gold 6258R costs $3,950 (based on thousand-unit purchases) compared to the $4,860 for the AMD EPYC 75F3 used in the fourth comparison. Here's the full lineup of EPYC 7003 processors: AMD highlighted a number of partners, specifically in the cloud market, including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, and Tencent Cloud, which are all planning to start deploying third-generation EPYC processors. You can learn more about EPYC processors on AMD's website. -
Gigabyte launches new servers with new AMD EPYC 7003 processors
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Gigabyte launches new servers with new AMD EPYC 7003 processors by Paul Hill Gigabyte Technology has announced over 40 servers and server motherboards that come with or support the new AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors. The firm said that these new servers are exceptional in high-performance computing (HPC), HCI virtualization, cloud, and data analytics and that they’re suitable for on-premises or cloud data centers. The latest generation of Gigabyte servers have been tested and are ready for AMD’s latest EPYC processors. Gigabyte has several series in their server line-up including the R-series, H-series, G-series, S-series, and M-series. The full list of devices is as follows: R-series R152-Z30, R152-Z31, R152-Z32, R152-Z33, R162-ZA0, R162-Z10, R162-Z11, R182-Z90, R182-Z91, R182-Z92, R182-Z93, R262-ZA0, R272-Z30, R272-Z31, R272-Z32, R272-Z34, R282-Z90, R282-Z91, R282-Z92, R282-Z93, R282-Z94 H-series H242-Z10, H242-Z11, H252-Z10, H252-Z12, H262-Z61, H262-Z62, H262-Z63, H262-Z66, H262-Z6A, H262-Z6B G-series G242-Z10, G242-Z11, G292-Z20, G292-Z22, G292-Z24, G292-Z40, G292-Z42, G292-Z43, G292-Z44, G492-Z51 S-series S452-Z30 M-series MZ32-AR0, MZ72-HB0 Each of the new products from Gigabyte supports up to 64 cores and 128 threads, up to 4TB of DDR4 memory (up to 3200MHz) can be installed in each socket, and there are 128 to 160 PCIe 4.0 lanes available between the CPU and drives or accelerators. As part of its offering, Gigabyte provides Gigabyte Management Console (GMC) for BMC server management via a platform accessible through a web browser. Gigabyte Server Management (GSM) software is also available for download and allows you to monitor and manage several servers easily. -
Welcome to the Servers 2017 thread! If you want to show your fellow Neowinians what your server looks like, this is the place to do it. When posting, please note the following: If you plan to img-embed your picture, please try to keep it under 100k. Actually, it's best if you just link to it externally. If you are going to quote, there isn't a need to quote an img-embeded picture - Just don't do it. Please just reference the post by page number/page link/etc. The moderators of this forum reserve the right to edit or remove your posts as necessary in order that they will comply with the Community Rules. The Servers 2017 thread is not to be used as a means to post images of a pornographic or otherwise provocative nature, so please be mindful of the images that may appear on your desktop. Please help to keep the thread relevant and safe to browse for everyone. Last year's Servers thread is here. ---- Edit: We only had one reply in 2017 so I think we'll keep this current topic until we see an uptake in participation before moving to annual stickies. Thanks
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AMD adds three new EPYC processors to the lineup, promising higher performance per core
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AMD adds three new EPYC processors to the lineup, promising higher performance per core by João Carrasqueira AMD's second-generation EPYC lineup of server processors is getting three new members starting today. The company has announced the EPYC 7F32, 7F52, and 7F72 processors, with 8, 16, and 24 cores, respectively. The new processors promise the highest performance per core of any x86 server CPU, edging out AMD's own EPYC 7262, which was the top-rated CPU by the SPEC. It also promises 17% higher performance for SQL Server workloads and 47% higher performance in VMmark compared to the competition. The processors also include support for PCIe 4.0, and the AMD Infinity, which helps with overall performance. “AMD EPYC continues to redefine the modern data center, and with the addition of three powerful new processors we are enabling our customers to unlock even better outcomes at the heart of the enterprise market,” said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager of the server business unit at AMD. “With our trusted partners, together we are pushing the limits of per core performance and value in hyperconverged infrastructure, commercial HPC and relational database workloads.” For those interested, here are the specs of the three new EPYC processors: Processor Cores/Threads TDP Base Frequency / Max Boost Frequency L3 Cache (per core) Price 7F32 8/16 180W 3.7GHz/~3.9GHz 128MB (16MB) $2,100 7F52 16/32 240W 3.5GHz/~3.9GHz 256MB (16MB) $3,100 7F72 24/48 240W 3.2GHz/~3.7GHz 192MB (8MB) $2,450 The processors are available now through a multitude of OEM partners. -
AMD adds EPYC 7662 & 7532 to its processor portfolio by Paul Hill AMD has announced the expansion of its AMD EPYC processor portfolio with the addition of the AMD EPYC 7662 and the AMD EPYC 7532. The American firm said it wants to make sure there are EPYC products for the different types of workloads that customers need to run. The AMD EPYC 7662 is the company’s fifth 64 core processor in the 2nd generation EPYC stack. It said that the product is great for those who are just coming into the 64-core market as it offers the same performance as Zen 2 cores but at a lower price point when compared to other AMD EPYC 64 core processors. As for the AMD EPYC 7532, customers will benefit from a high performance 32 core processor that has 256MB of L3 cache. Discussing the ideal use cases for this product, AMD said: “The AMD EPYC 7532 is great for cache sensitive workloads, like ANSYS CFX, giving each core access up to 8MB of L3 cache. On average across all ANSYS CFX benchmarks, the AMD EPYC 7532 has 111% better performance compared to the Intel Xeon 6248.” The full specs can be seen here: Model Default TDP (W) Cores Threads Base Frequency (GHz) Max. Boost Frequency (GHz) L3 $ (MB) 7662 225W 64 128 2.0GHz Up to 3.3GHz 256MB 7532 200W 32 64 2.4GHz Up to 3.3GHz 256MB In terms of the common properties, they both include 128 lanes of PCIe 4.0, support for 3200MHz memory and include advanced security features such as an integrated, dedicated, security processor that provides the foundation for Secure Boot, support for Secure Memory Encryption (SME), and Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). Dell and Supermicro will be the first partners supporting this hardware, both processors are available on the Dell EMC PowerEdge R6515, R7515, R6525, R7525 and C6525 servers as well as Supermicro A+ servers. Supermicro’s “Big Twin” server also supports the AMD EPYC 7532. In the coming months, HPE and Lenovo will also add support for these two processors.
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Huawei releases new Kunpeng 920 CPU and TaiShan servers by Boyd Chan Despite Huawei having its products banned from use within the US Government and the latter's attempts to dissuade its allies use of Huawei-built telecommunications equipment, the company still released its Mate 20 handset featuring its in-house SoC, the Kirin 980. At the time, the Chinese manufacturer claimed that the Kirin 980 to be faster than Apple's A12 Bionic chip and markedly improved over its predecessor, the Kirin 970. While much attention on ARM-based CPUs occurs in the mobile space, there's some traction being gained in the server market. To this end, Huawei has announced the Kunpeng 920, an ARM CPU for servers, along with three TaiShan server models. The Kunpeng 920 is beefier than its mobile counterparts, featuring 64 cores clocked at 2.6GHz, and chipset support for eight-channel DDR4 RAM, PCIe Gen4 and CCIX interconnects. It'll also be manufactured using a 7nm process and is based on the licensed ARMv8 architecture. According to the company's SPECint benchmarks, the Kunpeng 920 managed to score over 930, a result "25% higher than the industry benchmark" while boasting 30% improved power efficiency over its competitors. With respect to the announcement, William Xu, Huawei Chief Strategy Marketing Officer said: "Huawei has continuously innovated in the computing domain in order to create customer value. We believe that, with the advent of the intelligent society, the computing market will see continuous growth in the future. Currently, the diversity of applications and data is driving heterogeneous computing requirements. Huawei has long partnered with Intel to make great achievements. Together we have contributed to the development of the ICT industry. Huawei and Intel will continue our long-term strategic partnerships and continue to innovate together." The CPU will also feature in its TaiShan server also announced today, with specific models catering for storage, high-density, and combined scenarios where high core counts and performance per watt are desirable. The company's own "Huawei Cloud" leverages TaiShan infrastructure to deliver "elastic cloud services, bare metal services, and cloud phone services" while citing a "20% computing performance boost" in big data implementations. Alongside the release of the Kunpeng 920 and TaiShan servers, Huawei also took the opportunity to highlight its collaborative involvement in ecosystems, hardware, and software, cooperating with organizations and platforms including Linaro, OpenStack, and the Green Computing Consortium. Acknowledging the heterogeneity of computing environments, William Xu noted that the company will "work with our customers and partners to build a fully connected, intelligent world."
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Intel announces Cascade Lake and Xeon E-2100 processors by Paul Hill Image via Intel Intel has announced two new processors lineups; Cascade Lake for advanced performance, and the Intel Xeon E-2100 processor family for entry-level servers. Cascade Lake is due for release in the first half of next year, while the Intel Xeon E-2100 is being made available from today. The firm re-iterated that these products build on 20 years worth of history of Intel Xeon “platform leadership” and give customers more options to better fit their needs. Lisa Spelman, Intel vice president and general manager of Intel Xeon products and data center marketing had this to say about the new products: “We remain highly focused on delivering a wide range of workload-optimized solutions that best meet our customers’ system requirements. The addition of Cascade Lake advanced performance CPUs and Xeon E-2100 processors to our Intel Xeon processor lineup once again demonstrates our commitment to delivering performance-optimized solutions to a wide range of customers.” Cascade Lake is a Scalable processor aimed at high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and infrastructure-as-a-service workloads. It includes up to 48 cores per CPU and 12 DDR4 memory channels per socket, according to the firm. In the Linpack benchmark test, its performance was 1.21 times that of the Intel Xeon Scalable 8180 processor and 3.4 times that of the AMD EPYC 7601. As for the Intel Xeon E-2100, these processors are aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses and cloud service providers. They deliver hardware-based security and manageability features which provide additional security for data and applications. Intel said the processor family is capable of supporting workloads suitable for entry-level servers, for example, businesses will be able to run “the latest file-sharing, storage and backup, virtualization, and employee productivity solutions” with the hardware. As was mentioned earlier, the Intel Xeon E-2100 is available today, those interested can get it directly from Intel or through leading distributors.
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Welcome to the Servers 2016 thread! If you want to show your fellow Neowinians what your server looks like, this is the place to do it. When posting, please note the following: If you plan to img-embed your picture, please try to keep it under 100k. Actually, it's best if you just link to it externally. If you are going to quote, there isn't a need to quote an img-embeded picture - Just don't do it. Please just reference the post by page number/page link/etc. The moderators of this forum reserve the right to edit or remove your posts as necessary in order that they will comply with the Community Rules. The Servers 2016 thread is not to be used as a means to post images of a pornographic or otherwise provocative nature, so please be mindful of the images that may appear on your battlestation. Please help to keep the thread relevant and safe to browse for everyone. Last year's Servers thread is here.
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Hello, I have way to much tinkering with servers... thats it.
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Founder of Debian Linux passes away at 42 by Paul Hill It has been announced that the founder of the popular Debian Linux distribution, Ian Murdock, passed away on Monday night at the age of 42. Both his latest employer - Docker - and the Debian project posted obituaries to their respective blogs praising his accomplishments and asking press to give his family privacy at this time. The obituary from Debian opened with the following words, "With a heavy heart Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock, stalwart proponent of Free Open Source Software, Father, Son and the 'ian' in Debian." Murdock announced the Debian project in 1993 and became the project's leader until 1996, the same year that the first release was made available to the public. In the following years, Debian has become a rock solid Linux distribution and is used as a base for other popular distributions including Ubuntu, Linux Mint (built from an Ubuntu base), and SteamOS. Billions of people are also using Debian when they connect to websites online, as many servers run the software. Debian was also chosen for use in space aboard the International Space Station, where it replaced Windows XP. Ian's friends from Docker wrote, "We consider ourselves lucky to have known Ian and worked with him. He amazed everyone whom he worked with for the depth of his thinking, passion and experience. He was truly brilliant and an inspiration to many of us; his death is a loss to all whom he has known and touched." Condolences can be sent to in-memoriam-ian@debian.org where they will be kept and archived by the Debian project. Source: Bits from Debian and Docker
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Welcome to the server photos thread. In this thread you may post pics of your server. Please be mindful of our members on dial-up and try to keep the dimensions of the pics and the size of the files to a respectable size for 1024 x 768 viewers. Please refrain from quoting images in your replies. I will also ask that you link to images on your own space, as much as possible. The usual forum rules also apply. The last thread can be found here.
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Hi, We're looking for a solution where we can dial a phone number if power to our servers was cut off. We have a pair of APC battery backup units that will give us about an hour of power for our servers and then just shut off. I know the units can send out an email and can also turn some hardware off (not all) but we'd rather have a solution whereby the system rings our phone (an email isn't going to wake up anyone at 2am in the morning!). Does anyone know of a solution they can recommend? Cheers,
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Welcome to the server photos thread. In this thread you may post pics of your server. Please be mindful of our members on dial-up and try to keep the dimensions of the pics and the size of the files to a respectable size for 1024 x 768 viewers. Please refrain from quoting images in your replies. I will also ask that you link to images on your own space, as much as possible. The usual forum rules also apply. The last thread can be found here.
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Hey All, I'm a final year undergraduate student and I've been hearing a lot about Amazon Web Services lately, mainly from prospective companies that may employ me. The EC2 service is one that is mentioned frequently. What is the best way to get started and get use to some of AWS products. I've got limited funds, and 0 AWS experience. Tim
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Welcome to the server photos thread. In this thread you may post pics of your server. Please be mindful of our members on dial-up and try to keep the dimensions of the pics and the size of the files to a respectable size for 1024 x 768 viewers. Please refrain from quoting images in your replies. I will also ask that you link to images on your own space, as much as possible. The usual forum rules also apply. The last thread can be found here.
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We have an Asus RS920-E7/RS8 or RS926-E7/RS8 at my work (purchased through a third party vendor). Yesterday, after a scheduled reboot, the machine stopped posting suddenly. Upon investigation it appeared that 4 RAM modules (out of the 16 modules @ 8GB each) are suddenly bad. Moreover the particular sockets where the failed modules failed correspond to an interesting configuration. It is one per NUMA node or processor. And it appears to be what would correspond to the same socket on each node if you assume that there are 8 sockets per node. I find it hard to believe that 4 modules which previously worked independently failed at the same time. Given the particular circumstances I have a suspicion that the the board itself is faulty and damaged the modules somehow. Currently, based on the layout, I am guessing that these particular modules shared some kind of voltage source on the board. Does this sound plausible/any other ideas? For reference: The modules failed in sockets L1, N1, F1, and D1. Here is the manual: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/415003/Asus-Rs920-E7-Rs8.html?page=31#manual
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I have been trying to be pretty good about backups. I have made the mistake of using RAID 1 as a way of protecting my files (I know it was dumb ... ). I mistakenly corrupted the file system (updated RAID drivers, which apparently freaked out the the array) and had to recover data (in a very painful way). So now I am looking for a better solution. I have two laptops (OSX and Windows 7), two desktops (Windows 7), and one server (Windows Server 2008 R2). My server is where most of my files will reside (music, videos, and pictures that I want accessible from all computers are exclusively stored there). The server will also host the desktop and laptop backups (I figured I could just set up a SAMBA share and use my Windows 7 backup util to backup to the network folder, not sure what to use for my OS X machine). On my server I want to break the RAID. My question here is what is a good way to store files and then back them up on the other hard drive? I could manually write a script to 7zip the files and archive them on the other drive, or simply just copy the files to the other drive, but then I feel I would be misssing out on a good incremental backup recovery system. I am open to commericial software, like Acronis Trueimage. At least a few people liked that in the Definitive Best Backup Sofwater 2012 Thread. Another problem is adding storage. I did like the concept of Windows Home Server (before Vail) of the drive extender. You could choose to make files redundant on other drives and it would extend your pool. Both very useful features. Right now having separate drives means I would have to manually shuffle files around between drives, and make sure that each is backed up. It certainly is doable, but are there any commericially available software packages that emulate the drive extender? Or how do you guys handle adding storage? I have two 2TB drives now (and since they are mirrored, an effective storage pool of 2TB). I expect that will last another year and a half, but then I'd like to pick up some 3TB drives for a storage pool of 5TB. Eventually I'll probably also subscribe to an online backup service to protect against a house fire or something. Right now I want to focus on streamlining my backups now. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
