This is not a shopping question. I want to know if my basis for technical dependencies is correct. In other words, I should investigate CPU support for certain features before getting lost in a myriad of motherboards.
I need something that supports…
I would like to convert a half-height PCI card to full-height card, so some sort of metal bracket is needed.
Does anyone know what such a converter is called?
I would need an help to solve a problem.
I work on a system based on CompactPCI platform. The system is composed by:
3U CompactPCI CPU Blades (based on Pentium M processor)
3U CompactPCI proprietary board equipped with PLX PCI9050…
My laptop lenovo legion r7000 2020 env (with amd r7 4800h cpu):
$ uname -a
Linux CzgArch 6.3.8-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 14 Jun 2023 20:10:31 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Recently when I searched for NUMA, I found this Q&A, then I get the…
We unfortunately have a very expensive ($10K) full-length 5 volt PCI card that we would like to use in the same system as another expensive PCI-X card. As luck would have it, it seems that PCI-X is not backwards compatible with 5v PCI cards. It…
I have to NIC devices on the host:
# list Ethernet PCI devices to find out names
lspci -nn | grep Ethernet
# 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168]…
I wanted to find out if my Linux server supports PCI passthrough.
For that, I need to know if my CPU has VT-d or IOMMU enabled or not, but I couldn't find the way.
The following is the lscpu command output:
Blockquote
Architecture: …
I know how to check how many PCI slots are not used yet on my server, by using dmidecode and looking for Available slots:
# dmidecode
[...]
Handle 0x0014, DMI type 9, 13 bytes
System Slot Information
Designation: PCI1
Type: 32-bit PCI
…
I want better graphics on a Dell 2900 server, to replace onboard 16M vga.
The machine has PCI-E 4X and 8X sockets but no 16X socket (so most graphics cards are excluded immediately). However it does have 2 old PCI sockets.
I've tried a GeForce…
We have a PCI requirement to conduct scans for rogue/unauthorized WAPs quarterly. Below are the properties I'm looking for.
Simple to conduct. We have a satellite office, in addition to our main office, so we need something simple enough to be…
I have successfully completed NVIDIA Tesla P100 Grid Setup on the vSphere Host Server with VMware ESXI 6.7.While trying to add PCI devices in the VM, the option to choose PCI devices is shown as in the “Add Other Hardware” setting in “Virtual…
We ran PCI DSS External Vulnerability Scan on our website and the scan failed with many vulnerabilities, all of them are PCI severity: Low except one medium and another one high.
The high one is:
Threat: An SSL Certificate associates an entity…
I want to install a dual- or quad-port gigabit NIC card in a Dell riser card. The full-height slot is already populated with a Dell SAS HBA (green card in the photo.) Can I use the other side of the riser card for a half-height NIC?
The reason I'm…
Is there any compatibility list published for Intel X25-E/M SSDs and various RAID controllers? In particular, I am looking to retrofit some Intel X25s to an XW9300, so I need to find a PCI-X SAS/SATA RAID controller (e.g. Adaptec ASR-4800) that…
I currently have a problem with an supermicro-server with an intel xeon phi installed. Its an old server, but when I am logging in and checking for the xeon phi it is still recognized. When I am trying to reboot the system there is a "Bios Popup…