Comments on: Supermicro: Analysis of the best Home Lab Server 2020 – Supermicro M11SDV-8C+-LN4F

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By: jorgeuk

jorgeuk — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:31:51 +0000

In reply to polachz.

Hello,
Is this the only server you will get? If so, plenty of space to expand, etc. With the Noctua fans, and this AMD, you will not hear a thing, as the temperature control is amazing. A tiny small humm but nothing for real. I have it now with other servers on a rack, so I can not take it out and show you, but the Noctua fans are great.

Best regards

By: polachz

polachz — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:34:46 +0000

Hallo. Your build interested me a lot. But I have one important question. What about the noise? Can you hear the server ? Due my old house limitations, I need to put the server to my bedroom. So, is possible to sleep with this server on ? I’m afraid that fanless run is not possible here…
Thank you a lot for the answer

By: jorgeuk

jorgeuk — Mon, 03 May 2021 12:50:54 +0000

In reply to Javier Fuentes.

Hi Javier,
There are a few fans here, the ones on the chassis, all good and no problem, the one on top of the CPU, I am just using the flexible plastic screws that came with the fan, and using them like that. It can be unstable if you move the server a lot, but as it is just on top of the heatsink, so far, so good, I have done that with my old Supermicro and it is here with me for years, no issues so far.

The server is amazing, the speed is great, the only downside is the lack of 10GbE, which you will need PCIe for it, and that some virtual appliances are meant to work only on Intel, like Nutanix AHV CE, Dell EMC Unity, etc. The rest, it is the best server on my cluster without a doubt and keeps much cooler than the other Supermicro with Intel.

By: Javier Fuentes

Javier Fuentes — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:28:55 +0000

Hi there

Very interesting. Right now I’m in the process of buying a homelab server and I chose exactly the same mobo and chassis.
I have a couple of questions regarding the cpu fans… How do you attached them to the motherboard? Are you perfectly happy with the results?

Thanks for your post 😉

By: jorgeuk

jorgeuk — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:45:50 +0000

In reply to Shaf. Hello Shaf, Now just ESXi7, but even the latest 7.0U2. It went well, detected everything and working like a charm, not issues so far.

By: Shaf

Shaf — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:40:21 +0000

Hi,

Good read, thanks for sharing, just a quick question though, you mentioned you used the EXSI7 on it. How did that go, as this series is missing from VMware HCL?