NEW Intel Xeon D-1500 SoC - ideal for high performance, low-power pfSense inst.?
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Looks really impressive…
SoC:
http://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-d-soc-changing-broadwell-de/Motherboards:
http://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-d-1500-platforms-supermicro-d-1540/
http://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-intel-xeon-d-platform/Hope that pfSense support will follow soon...
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That is wicked!
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Hope that pfSense support will follow soon…
Must… not... leak...
OK, what do you think the DPDK effort is about?
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could/would you elaborate on the impact of "DPDK" ?
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Please tell me we don't have another form factor…
Extended ITX
Looks like what i would call Micro ATX back in the day...
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I'm really excited about these. The existing E3 systems are capped at 32GB of RAM & 4 cores and that makes them more or less useless for virtualization, even in a dev environment.
One thing I'm not seeing here is QuickAssist. gonzopancho, any idea if that's included or if it would require a PCI-e accelerator?
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could/would you elaborate on the impact of "DPDK" ?
http://dpdk.org/
It's what will allow (fingers crossed) pfSense to forward packets at 10Gbe or faster.
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I'm really excited about these. The existing E3 systems are capped at 32GB of RAM & 4 cores and that makes them more or less useless for virtualization, even in a dev environment.
One thing I'm not seeing here is QuickAssist. gonzopancho, any idea if that's included or if it would require a PCI-e accelerator?
Yeah, that's POR. See blog post.
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overkill, but i like it 8)
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Overkill for a 100Mbps cable connection? Yes.
Overkill for multiple 10Gbps connections with DPI and IPsec? No.
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Overkill for smaller installs, even the 4-core variant. But yes, if you actually can utilize those 10GB interface, it hopefully will be able to keep up. The 8-core variant I'm here is somewhere around the $800-$1,000 price point, no specific dollar amount has been said about the 4-core board complete….though CPU list price is just under $400 less which would put the starting price around $400 (Avoton replacement?? just not atom) without 10GB...add probably an extra $80-100 for the 10GB.
I'm waiting for a few vendors to get on-board in Q2/Q3 and offer 1U barebone shallow-depth setups....pretty snazzy.