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]](https://preview.ibb.co/f1PCov/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]](https://preview.ibb.co/fJbQ8v/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]](https://preview.ibb.co/majCov/PC_IPMI_2.png)
And this is the console, I'm running ESXi on this server:
![[Image: PC_3.png]](https://preview.ibb.co/g7zOva/PC_3.png)
As mentioned before, my playback system is a 3 way computer setup with:
- Music player running Snakeoil with squeezelite only (the square box with the blinding blue light above)
- LMS running on a computer that's running a host of other stuffs (Ubuntu)
- NAS storing all music (FreeNAS)
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]](https://www.snakeoil-os.net/forums/images/onion/confused.gif)