starknetwork Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Does anyone have any experience with this motherboard with unraid? Also, does anyone know if it is compatible with VT-d? (I plan to use a xeon e3 1230 v3) http://www.asrock.com/server/overview.asp?Model=E3C224-V%2B for a little more there is also a version with 4 LAN ports (http://www.asrock.com/server/overview.asp?Model=E3C224-4L). I am considering it over the Supermicro X10SLM since it has an extra PCI 1x plus two extra sata ports. I am also considering the Asrock C226 WS, but sadly this lovely board doesn't have IPMI otherwise would be perfect (http://www.asrock.com/server/overview.asp?Model=C226%20WS) Any thoughts? Thanks, Jake Quote Link to comment
Whatever Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 I'm pretty sure the E3C224-V+ doesn't have IPMI - only models E3C224 and E3C224-4L do. I would double check the MB's User Manual before ordering. And yes, it's a pitty the Asrock C226 WS doesn't have IPMI or vPro. It would become a clear winner for a home virtualization setup if it did. Quote Link to comment
starknetwork Posted February 17, 2014 Author Share Posted February 17, 2014 Ah you're right, E3C224-V+ does not have IPMI, thanks for pointing that out! So I just need to decide between E3C224 and E3C224-4L. Not sure I can think of a good use for 4 lan ports, even with virtualisation with xen. Jake Quote Link to comment
sgibbers17 Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 I have the ASRock C266 WS motherboard and I can confirm that it does not have IPMI but it is a solid board with plenty of PCIe slots for sata/SAS cards and other cards for virtualizing. It also has 10 SATA 3 ports (6 on the c266 and 2 on each of the 2 Marvell controllers). Quote Link to comment
starknetwork Posted February 17, 2014 Author Share Posted February 17, 2014 Ordered the following: Asrock E3C224-4L - thought I might as well have the extra LAN ports and IPMI was a must have, ruling out the C226 WS Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 - I know the graphics will be redundant on the system, ordered this over the 1230 mainly because it was in stock now (UK) 2* Kingston KVR16E11/8 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz ECC Corsair RM650 Gold Xcase RM 424s Jake Quote Link to comment
Whatever Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 How did it go? I read a report about AsRock's IPMI not being as good as SM's. Are you happy with the motherboard overall? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
starknetwork Posted May 6, 2014 Author Share Posted May 6, 2014 I'm pretty happy with the board so far. I still have a monitor plugged into it so not tested the ipmi that much and have never used supermicro ipmi so can't compare. It works, though once I did have an issue where the keyboard input wouldn't work through the java viewer.. I've managed to get pci passthrough working with a couple of vm's in xen after upgrading the bios (the bios update didn't mention anything regarding vt-d but graphics passthrough would crash within a minute or so before I did the upgrade). Biggest issue I have with the board which i didn't realise before buying is that the sata ports are at right angles on the edge of the board which gave me some issues with the case I have (x-case rm 424s). Finally, I have an issue where the bios for my two aoc-saslp-mv8 cards when both plugged in with drives attached hangs on booting, after a couple of minutes it times out and will continue booting into unraid, and drives work fine so just a bit of an annoyance. I have followed the post on the controller card forum board to disable RAID functionality in firmware .21 but this hasn't made a difference. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment
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