I too am also interested in a solution as I've just pulled the trigger on this mother board.
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2eleven -- Does 4.1 support both NICs (with or without Chilly's fix)? I run 4.1 in production and if it is more...
I've the same problem. I work in a school district, and support close to 2000 pc's. In addition to re-imaging computers for virues we re-image every machine during the summer.
The solution I use is the Microsoft Deployment toolkit, along with Windows Deployment Services (boots computer...
FYI on the x9scm-f. It has 4 pin fan connectors on the motherboard. So you may need to replace the fans in your case (no big deal). SuperMicro does not recommend mixing fan types.
Shnelson:
The x9SCM only supports unregistered memory, and you just can't get 8 GB unregisted DIMMS. So I think I'm going to try to get it done with 16 GB (4 x 4GB). Registed DIMMS won't work on this motherboard.
As for the number of images, that's very flexible.
Using other...
It actually get a little slicker when we do the actual deployment to the desktops. I work in a school district and over the summer we have to clean (disinfect and blow out the dust bunnies) and re-image over 2000 computers.
We prepopulate the SQL database for each computer based on the...
It actually gets slicker when we do the actual deployments to the desktops. I work in a school district and over the summer we clean the computers (blow out the dust bunnies), and wipe and reload the os. We have to to approx 2000 machines. We prep a sql server database with the what we want...
Thanks for the quick replies.
mayhem87
Yes, I understand that the two boards have different sockets. One is a Lynnfeild, and the other is a Sandy Bridge.
shnelson
The benefit to me of the X9SCM-F board is that it has the C204 chipset that supports 2 6GB sata devices. Since the...
Some advice please..
I'm currently running vmWare workstation on a Core 2 Duo (12 GB RAM) laptop with 256 GB SSD.
I'm running 4 Windows Server 2008 R2 VMs that are used to build images (additional VMs) for deployment. These four servers include:
SQL Server 2008
Active Directory, DHCP...