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Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup
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Been so busy with the new job lately I havn't had time for any Snakeoil development. 

Recently I've acquired a second hand Xeon machine, and my intention is to run ESXi on it, and spin up a VM running LMS. Not sure how the SQ will be like, but very interested to find out. And the little time I had after work, I'm working on this new Xeon board.

Here's the picture of the new machine (Xeon 1230 V3 with 32 GB of ECC RAM, and water cooled).
[Image: PC_1.jpg]

The motherboard is a Supermicro X10SLL-F, it's a server board with out of band management. This means I can run this computer headless (don't connect keyboard/mouse to this machine). Control of this machine is done remotely from another computer via a web browser. This is the login screen:
[Image: PC_IPMI.png]

Once logged in, I can start a remote console (this is similar to Windows remote desktop or vncviewer), by clicking the "Launch Console":

[Image: PC_IPMI_2.png]

And this is the console, I'm running ESXi on this server:

[Image: PC_3.png]

As mentioned before, my playback system is a 3 way computer setup with: 
  1. Music player running Snakeoil with squeezelite only (the square box with the blinding blue light above)
  2. LMS running on a computer that's running a host of other stuffs (Ubuntu)
  3. NAS storing all music (FreeNAS)
My intention is to run LMS in a virtual machine on this new server running ESXi (along with my Snakeoil development VMs), to replace machine 2 above.

Also have a second server Atom motherboard (donated by tp1). Once I've finished setting up this Xeon machine, I'd re-purpose the Atom Xeon and replace machine 1 in the above list.

When completed, I'd be running server grade hardware on my 3-way computer playback system, all running on ECC RAM.

The beauty of these server board is ease of management. There was a problem with this Xeon motherboard initially, the CPU fan speed is not spinning right. This issue is fixed by upgrading the BIOS via the web interface. And I can mount ISO images virtually and install software via the web interface. All this means a better platform for Snakeoil development.
How will this new setup sound when finished? [Image: confused.gif] Hopefully in time I can find out.
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Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup - by agent_kith - 30-May-2016, 11:31 AM
RE: Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup - by Leonard - 02-Jun-2016, 07:39 AM
RE: Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup - by Leonard - 07-Jun-2016, 10:01 PM
RE: Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup - by agent_kith - 16-Aug-2016, 09:10 PM
RE: Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup - by Gannaway - 04-Feb-2018, 05:38 PM
RE: Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup - by Bromf - 30-May-2018, 05:21 PM
RE: Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup - by Snoopy8 - 02-Apr-2019, 05:09 AM
RE: Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup - by Snoopy8 - 25-Apr-2019, 06:53 AM
RE: Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup - by Snoopy8 - 16-Jul-2020, 06:41 PM
RE: Snakeoil Salesman 2 channel setup - by Bromf - 15-Jul-2020, 04:05 PM

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