Lots of misleading discussion about this online. My test rig is a new Dell Poweredge T140 with the latest 2.4.1 BIOS. The aim is to boot the server from a brand new NVMe SSD presented on the PCI-E bus via an m.2 interface. There is a lot of confusion with the difference between SATA SSDs
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Quick script to setup kerberos migration between a list of nodes
We have a need for a large amount of online storage to use as a staging area for backups and we happen to have a 2950 with 16Gb of RAM about to be scrapped. This is an old server but has a 6×3.5 SAS backplate and with modern drives hitting 12Tb+ it could be stop
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Installed the PHP driver for MS SQL on a vanilla Debian 10 VM, using: As per the docs. Then connecting gives this error in PHP: And this on the server (SQL Server 2012): Lots of chat about this on the forums ( https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1021 ) but this comment by miktea is the key: Thanks https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57265913/error-tcp-provider-error-code-0x2746-during-the-sql-setup-in-linux-through-te/59503719#59503719
Background Commodity NVIDIA cards such as the GeForce 1080Ti are not intended by their manufacturer to be used in virtualized environments. Specifically there are features built into the drivers that make passing the PCI-E devices through from the host into the VM a challenge. This is possible to bypass if the host is running Linux/KVM
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