[OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

Wish I could help you, but I don't even know if our servers in our
datacenters have started to receive any Sandy Bridge-based Xeons.

Best suggestion would be to check Tyan and Intel server boards.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 18:15, Matt Connolly <matt.connolly.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/12/2011, at 6:41 AM, Geoff Flarity wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Lou Picciano <loupicciano at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Harry - You may be getting into SuperMicro mobo space at this point... (others here will have some specific recommendations for you).
>>>
>>> On the other hand - the latest Sandy Bridge Architectures will support 32 GB even on lower-end boards.
>>>
>>
>> Be aware that there's bug withSandy Bridge + KVM that will require
>> using a kernel parameter change work around. I forget the exact
>> details, see the SmartOS archives.
>
> I just set up a Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1230 on an Intel S1200BTL which supports 32GB ECC memory. It's a bit fussy about what memory it supports - make sure you get the right type. There appears to be no BMC driver at present, but other than that, it's running well.
>
> To get KVM to load without crashing, you need to add "set apix_enable=0" in /etc/system and reboot before installing kvm. It's also mentioned in an issue for illumos-kvm on github:
>
> https://github.com/joyent/illumos-kvm/issues/1


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