[rescue] Fujitsu PrimePower

[Joshua Boyd]

On 3/23/26 14:05, Phil Stracchino via rescue wrote:
>
> Understandable.  I'm also trying to find a home for a HP DL360pG8 that 
> has been sitting idle for the same reasons, and I've been considering 
> consolidating the services that now run on my two 1U Dells onto the 
> R740 NAS, in order to cut down on power usage (and the power *bill*) 
> now that I'm retired and can't really make the excuse that I need to 
> maintain my HA-DB-cluster chops any longer. 


I do find value in continuing to separate VMs from storage, and thus 
have been running one or more Proxmox machines and one TrueNAS machine 
for a long time.

The downside to the DL360pG8 is that a lot of stuff is starting to move 
to requiring x86-64-v3 (Haswell or newer on desktop, Xeon E5 v3 or newer 
on  DL360p style hardware), and for the Xeon's that means a change from 
DDR3 to DDR4 and they are choosing to make this requirements change 
right when the price of DDR4 and DDR5 are through the roof, that is 
expected to last for several years, and so being able to add stick with 
or add back more DDR3 systems would be really helpful.

One application on my currently one Proxmox server (Xeon E5 v4 
generation) is not playing well with sharing the hardware, and I've been 
contemplating getting an older DDR3 server to move everything else to.  
However, that makes it much harder to run Rocky 10 on top of the 
hypothetical older VM server.  I really wish I would have invested more 
in hardware upgrades in 2024.