Real server hardware shits the bed all the time.
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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Sure, but nowhere near as often.
I mean, what stops one from just using a good NIC? Doesn't have to be in a "real server"...
Onboard NICs in servers are pretty much either going to be Intel or Broadcoms, so it's just something I just don't even need to think about.
So, is that an imaginary server?
?? That doesn't make sense...
You said you prefer “real” servers, so are you saying your server isn’t real?
Hah...you got me. Good one.
Lol it does though.
It whooshed over my head lol.
Looks like you don't understand the concept of a server, a server is not a physical representation of any device, I can make anything a server whenever I so please.
If you get crappy motherboards (server grade) or crappy servers with motherboards they can have any kind of NIC, also they can be connected directly or indirectly to your CPU using or not using PCI lanes.
Here it seemed that you made a poor decision on what you call a server, no labgore here imho.
I've used ASUS motherboards with both intel and Realtek NICs (for some reason dual-NIC MBs never have the same chipset).. in a number of years, tugging along in my ESXi cluster hosting 50 VMs - no issues
Realtek + ESXi are hardly existing in the same equation. One upon time but not anymore.
what is your platform?
This is a i7-8700 on an Asus Prime H310M-E motherboard.
All I could afford at the time unfortunately.
Soo you are saying you draw a random ass conclusion from an issue which would not exist if you would have made the right hardware choise? got it. Well done.
I don't understand what I see
Yes, this seems to happen more frequent with brands like realtek. All hardware has failure rates, generally speaking more expensive and enterprise gear fails with less frequency, but can still fail. Personally, I don't enjoy hardware failure, so I invest in stable clean power and great hardware. It may cost more in the overall power budget but is less headache because things just don't fail as often.
This is a software issue anyway with this Realtek NIC.
Not the first time it's happened so I have mitigations in place, unfortunately because I shuffled some VMs around yesterday due to a power outage, the mitigations failed. That has since been sorted.