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Real server hardware shits the bed all the time.

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Sure, but nowhere near as often.

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So, is that an imaginary server?

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?? That doesn’t make sense…

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You said you prefer “real” servers, so are you saying your server isn’t real?

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Hah…you got me. Good one.

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Lol it does though.

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It whooshed over my head lol.

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I mean, what stops one from just using a good NIC? Doesn’t have to be in a “real server”…

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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.

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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

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Realtek + ESXi are hardly existing in the same equation. One upon time but not anymore.

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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.

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