Building out a Dell PowerEdge R430 for a future project/video
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Ran into some issues while building this. Mostly due to a low quality flash drive I was trying to use for esxi. Once I get it fully running the next step is to install TrueNAS, pfSense, PiHole, and Windows 10 VMs. Specs of this build:
Single Xeon E5-2609 v3 1.9GHz 6 core
64GB DDR4 memory
Perc H330
480GB Intel SSD
Four 2TB SAS HDDs
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Interesting nontheless! The struggle with ESXI ... been there, done that ...
@@jfkastner I need to make time to figure out pfsense and pihole. Idrac has been acting a little goofy though. I think it needed to be reset after the update.
Amazing to watch! From cats to computers, you do all things well👍
Great Luck to you young man in all you do! 👍😊🐾🐾
Did you stick with esxi? I've fallen in love with proxmox over the past couple years.
Yeah. I like how easy it is to manage esxi. No CLI necessary.
I bought one of these used, but I could not install Windows 2022 on bare metal due to issues with the Perc RAID Card. I installed Proxmox and everything worked well. Note, VMWare wants $500 dollars a year (more than 16 physicals CPUs).
Esxi has a core limit of 8 per vm, but I'm not aware of a core limit for the server if that is what you meant. Otherwise I'm not aware of a single server that has more than 8 sockets for CPUs.
@@computersales You are correct, I meant more than 16 cores. I have been happy with ProxMox. I was able to set up ZFS with disk mirroring.
@@timdion9527 I should learn proxmox one of these days. Just trying to work with esxi since it is more common in large datacenters
The excitement, passion, enthusiasm, and energy in this man's voice has me sooo very hyped for this video. He brings all of that together combined with an extremely dull and unexciting layout, length of time spent describing each part, the thought process behind them, why he got the server in the first place, why he plans to sell it, why building it out so cheaply, make a video at all? I feel sorry for this R430. No love.
I haven't officially finished the project but the video of where it went is up. 😁
ua-cam.com/video/hnMqWZpLLQU/v-deo.html
Did the R430 require RAID controller cross-flash to IT mode for TrueNAS install?
I let the raid controller do the work and virtualized TrueNAS in ESXi. I just gave TrueNAS a virtual drive basically. Otherwise looks like you may have to flash firmware depending on your setup.
www.truenas.com/community/threads/problem-with-a-h330-and-ssds.94663/
@@computersales ok thanks for the info
When it comes to replacing the optical drive the only cables i have availabile seem to be 2 sata cables. Where is your power cable coming from for the ssd your installing on the board. Stupid question but i am bit baffled as mines refurbished and came with no optical drive
You should have a SATA cable, and a mini SATA power cable. The mini SATA power cable will look like a SATA cable, but it will have a black and red wire coming out of it. The both run off the motherboard.
@@computersales I have the 2 sata ports on the motherboard but where is the power port for the mini sata power on it? Couldn't find reference to it on the owners manual.
@@computersales it would be what's labeled as ODD_PWR_CONN would it?
@@Kadetto30 yeah should say odd power or something like that.
@@Kadetto30 Item 37 on the motherboard towards the front left corner of the board.
www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-r430/r430ownersmanual/system-board-connectors?guid=guid-6f15eec2-5f27-42d0-82c3-02eba23631b0&lang=en-us
Hi, just wondering what is the noise level of R430 ? i had R610 and it was really quiet.
I don't recall it being particularly noisy. I never really loaded it down though.
@@computersales wow 84W on idle ? that is amazing.
how much you spend on this one ?
@@wilsonsony you should be able to build something like that for around $300 USD right now.
@@wilsonsony Just for some input I just picked two up with dual v4's for 150 ea. on r/homelabsales