Awesome Tips I wanted to try this for years, but no one would let me
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Booting all your computers off of one server sounds like a great idea, right? In theory, yes. In practice, though? Not so much. But that’s why we’re here to show you how iSCSI works, its benefits and disadvantages, and why KIOXIA is so awesome for sending us so many blazing-fast drives.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:23 How does this work?
3:17 Jake hates this server
5:09 Trust us, these drives make sense
6:03 The long term plan
6:35 This server is soooooo great
7:07 Time for software
10:05 The difference between iSCSI and SMB
11:00 Installing network cards
12:40 But where do we boot from?
14:30 Installing Windows
17:30 It’s ALIVEEEE
20:18 The disadvantages
21:48 Thanks KIOXIA!
22:25 Outro
Deals for Days. Big home savings are happening now.
"older than… Jake here" oof! 🔥🔥🔥
THIS JUST FREAKING HAPPENED TO ME!! MY BOOT SSD LITERALLY EXPLODED!! UGH….
I wonder if they turned on jumbo frames? iSCSI really likes packets 9k not little 1.5k packets. You'd have to enable it on all your nics and the switch.
17:47 what’s with that resolution? Is that just a test for the first boot?
A tad off topic but would love to know is Emily going to return to our screens . It's been a while and hope she is doing well
Yes asian Net Cafe uses network boot for decades
What if you go the other way around and load the server with GPU's with passthrough and local nvme ssd storage. Potentially even have some custom GPU profiles to run in some eco mode when not under load. I know they do all this for AI/ML workloads with Nvidia datacenter hardware just curious how it would run.
I hate "that thing", had to unbrick so many installations where users wipe their whole drive after cloning the installation or installing windows on the new drive…
iSCSI is not great, not horrible. But the speeds Linus got here are just crap, my single Samsung SSD behind a reasonable good Raid controller will do 800MB/s read and 550 MB/s write (that's kinda max you will get from an SSD)
I have all my steam games on an iSCSI share as my daily driver is an Apple mini with only 500GB NVME drive (spit between OSX and Windows) – hooked with an eGPU. Launching GTA does not take longer compared to if I would run it locally.
My setup is kind'a enterprise. I'm running ESOS as my SAN OS and it connects to my ESXi hosts with 32 Gigabit/s Fiber Channel doing muplti-path (4x8Gb) – My iSCSI LUN sits on a Windows Server that acts as my main NAS (SMB) but also currently runs the iSCSI (mainly as I don't have 10G ports on my ESOS hosts – its purpose is only to serve block over FC.
Now i'm tempted to PXE boot Windows over iSCSI and to see how well it could work 😀
Damn Jake, how do you know all of this?? What did you do before LMG??
So this is how it could be simular to running games in Gamepass or other cloud streaming platforms as the boot up seems simular to the experience you had during your boot times and latency, interesting that when scripting anythings single player into multi-player required me to write a minimal of 4 pages for boot up and execution of the files to designate when and where to set 1 person unless you don't mind stacking players, (very annoying and brakes things), yet booting the nvm drives through a substantialy different drive based on a Mac address or relative IP is pretty common I guess. The 4 paragraphs of boot idolacation seems pretty basic compared to if you ran each drive as it's on dedicated boot loaded with the exe to force easy boot times and less input lag. Idk food for thought I guess.
Screw ever trying anything like this. If you mega-nerds struggle, I would have zero hope.
Looking like a cute lesbian linus.. looking good
PLS do more of PXE things, also if theirs any information of how to do this one please share it. finally some hardcore videos
Linus has a serious problem with spending money on gaming pc's
PXE booting is cool and has its place, but yeah just RAID 1 a couple reasonably sized SSDs for booting is probably more practical. I would love to see some follow-up after adjusting networking and any tweaking needed on the starwind side.
Trying to share the game installs over SMB seems asking for failure. iSCSI target as your game install target storage would make more sense. (Multiple installs of the same game should be a big win for dedupe). Worst-case scenario, iSCSI attached storage as location to restore Steam backups from should be quite fast.
*However*, why the heck were you re-installing windows from scratch on each machine?!? That should have been a generic (syspreped) image – (heck the base could have been a ZFS snapshot for added fun) – at the very least, restoring a compressed .WIM image over iSCSI should be *fast*.
They didn't actually leave it like this right?!
Linus/Jake, Y U No Microsoft Intune on these things????
Some advice when it comes to windows and iSCSI: MPIO. We have seen some weird stuff on virtual machine guest mounted storage where windows only registers a single path and if that path is down because a network cable was moved or net config changes in between, it wouldn't automagically reconnect the drive. Might not need it but if you can have it, why not right?
uhm…why is Linus getting younger?
Oh god, we have come full circle. First, it was the remote terminal, then it was the PC, and now back to the remote terminal.
Why would you use nano… use vim.
he had great hair, then he went to his Btech Barber again and look at him now …
the best part is how few failing points it has
Can you do VDI ? If it will be cooler also haha
He plays Risk of Rain 2, based.
Okay, so I have a REALLY stupid question….. despite all the flaws of a system like this. Do you think this could this be a viable option for e-sports if there was "proper" networking? that way the machines could be better regulated? after reading some people sneak cheats or just blatantly do it. 🤷♂ I don't know, this is just my 3 braincells trying to construct a thought. (I meant "proper" as in having hardware that the boot system COULD recognize😅)
Have they heard ccboot? I think this is the common software being used here by the big internet cafes(even small ones) here in the Philippines. All they need is One powerful server and 10-15 clients. All good to go!
screw the 2:30 samsung ad
What’s crazy is I was trying to do this last week 😂😂
que atuação sintética estranha foi essa mano ??? não aguentei 1 min do video e sou fã do canal a 2673521538215 anos.
Access encoded…a gigabyte of RAM should do the trick. We’re in!
LTT is like the OG Top Gear show but with computers, it takes a lot of intellect and knowledge to push this braindead but interesting ideas.
Wen beard
So you turned your PC into a terminal(?)
Damn nobody noticing how Jake named the IQN "LinusReallySmells" at the very end @ 9:53 . Yes that's very correct jake, you really can set it to what ever you want 😂😂
surely you guys will put windows on a mac and mac os on a Microsoft laptop
great, now there is a way I can finally play call of duty
Is it just me or does Linus's audio on the wide shots sound different?
Jake has really come into his own on LTT, gets to shine with his server and networking knowledge, looks comfortable and like he’s having fun on camera. Dude’s killin it and it’s great😊
Hey Linus, when you break this thing at Christmas, any chance you can ship me the old one?
This channel is becoming more and more a live ad for whatever brand is popular in the last 24h in Linus camp… And the script? Yeah, no.
EDIT: 52K likes out of 1.5M views say enough
How many times is he going to plug in those drives.. lol