jrmunday
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I am pretty disappointed with the R815's myself. I replaced 10x HP DL380 G5 hosts with 6x Dell R815 hosts ... so far, I've replaced 3x motherboards, CPU and RAM. On the plus side, the R815's downfalls have been responsible for exposing some flaws in the ESXi builds (which have been resolved by VMware).

The C1E flags should remain unchanged with the BIOS upgrades, but from version 2.8.2 HPC mode is added - I have enabled this on my hosts;

http://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER00955427M/1/PER815-030004BIOS.txt

* Added High Performance Computing (HPC) mode support for AMD Opteron 6200 series processor

Processor HPC Mode—Information Update

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/per715/en/TS/HPC_EN.pdf

AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series Processor Quick Reference Guide

http://www.amd.com/us/Documents/Opteron_6000_QRG.pdf

Cheers,

Jon


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