Hi all,

 

My unraid is running on a Supermicro X9SRE and a Xeon E5-2650 @ 2.00GHz with 8 cores

I purchased a E5-2670 v2 which has 10 cores @ 2.5GHz for 120 USD (this looked like a good deal)

The bios is up to date and and the motherboard is compatible with that CPU.

 

I was wondering if there is any precaution to take in unraid when I swap the CPU since the new one has more cores. Especially on VMs because of the thread pairing. I was planning to update the CPU allocation on each VM but maybe there is something else to take care about.

 

Thanks for your help.

Edited March 28, 20188 yr by mathgoy

On 3/28/2018 at 12:02 AM, mathgoy said:

I was wondering if there is any precaution to take in unraid when I swap the CPU since the new one has more cores. Especially on VMs because of the thread pairing. I was planning to update the CPU allocation on each VM but maybe there is something else to take care about.

Nothing for unRAID itself, afaik. Your current plan on checking/updating your VM templates is about all I would do.  You already checked bios version and motherboard compatibility. 

 

EDIT: Oh any docker containers with CPU pins? Like handbrake, for example. That would be another thing to double check on before starting container.

Edited March 29, 20188 yr by Jcloud

On 30/03/2018 at 12:43 AM, Jcloud said:

Nothing for unRAID itself, afaik. Your current plan on checking/updating your VM templates is about all I would do.  You already checked bios version and motherboard compatibility. 

 

EDIT: Oh any docker containers with CPU pins? Like handbrake, for example. That would be another thing to double check on before starting container.

Thanks for your reply mate.

 

I will stick to the plan as I don't have docker containers with CPU pin.

 

Will let you know about how it will go!