I'm thinking about some of the things I want to do with my old lab equipment, and how I've changed it over the years...
I have several HP DL360p gen8 servers with dual 10 core processors, these are not x86_64 v3 processors which is going to matter soon. Each of these has 128GB of ECC DDR3 ram and a bunch of SATA drive bays that I can fill up for "fast" local storage. They also have dual 10gbps connections which will be important in a minute.
I have a low profile x8 card slot available (might be PCIE2.0, might be 3.0, need to check), might have an x16 but I need to open one and check to see how the drive controller is connected before I can confirm. I assume I'll put a GPU in this low profile slot, I have nVidia P620 I can use, but I'll probably want to buy something newer because the hardware encode/decode on the p620 is not great.
So which Linux distro is going to be best going forward? Prefer Debian like from ParrotOS or RHEL based with AlmaLinux 8 or 9 unless there are problems with these.
Do any of the Intel ARC cards work well for OBS? or should I stick to something nVidia? Suggestions on the half height (low profile) card?
Workflow will be mostly this:
As many sources and outputs as possible will be NDI across the network as I don't really have USB and no more room for a capture card of any kind. My lab has a Mikrotik CRS 326-24s+2q+ switch at it's heart, this is 24 ports of 10gbps SFP+ and 2 ports of 40gbps QSFP+. I'll eventually add a switch with POE++ to power some of the cameras, or at least something with POE+ for the same thing. I have many 1.25gbps SFP modules installed in the switch for slower copper connections. Current plans is only 3 cameras at 1080/60p which is 140mbps per camera, maybe a couple of laptops for powerpoint, maybe powerpoint running internally. I'll figure out how to play clips back, but that again might be from another computer with the VLC NDI plugin. Graphics will be internal, and audio will probably be from a USB 2 interface because it would be easier this way, I'll investigate audio over NDI as I have time, but it's not a mature solution yet.
I know Windows support might be better for me, but I'm not real interested in buying or stealing a Windows license right now, and don't want to go through the hoop jumping of running an Eval version. I may still test with Windows as it would be far easier for me to get up and running, my Linux skills are poor.
I know these are pretty newb questions, would appreciate the help.
I have several HP DL360p gen8 servers with dual 10 core processors, these are not x86_64 v3 processors which is going to matter soon. Each of these has 128GB of ECC DDR3 ram and a bunch of SATA drive bays that I can fill up for "fast" local storage. They also have dual 10gbps connections which will be important in a minute.
I have a low profile x8 card slot available (might be PCIE2.0, might be 3.0, need to check), might have an x16 but I need to open one and check to see how the drive controller is connected before I can confirm. I assume I'll put a GPU in this low profile slot, I have nVidia P620 I can use, but I'll probably want to buy something newer because the hardware encode/decode on the p620 is not great.
So which Linux distro is going to be best going forward? Prefer Debian like from ParrotOS or RHEL based with AlmaLinux 8 or 9 unless there are problems with these.
Do any of the Intel ARC cards work well for OBS? or should I stick to something nVidia? Suggestions on the half height (low profile) card?
Workflow will be mostly this:
As many sources and outputs as possible will be NDI across the network as I don't really have USB and no more room for a capture card of any kind. My lab has a Mikrotik CRS 326-24s+2q+ switch at it's heart, this is 24 ports of 10gbps SFP+ and 2 ports of 40gbps QSFP+. I'll eventually add a switch with POE++ to power some of the cameras, or at least something with POE+ for the same thing. I have many 1.25gbps SFP modules installed in the switch for slower copper connections. Current plans is only 3 cameras at 1080/60p which is 140mbps per camera, maybe a couple of laptops for powerpoint, maybe powerpoint running internally. I'll figure out how to play clips back, but that again might be from another computer with the VLC NDI plugin. Graphics will be internal, and audio will probably be from a USB 2 interface because it would be easier this way, I'll investigate audio over NDI as I have time, but it's not a mature solution yet.
I know Windows support might be better for me, but I'm not real interested in buying or stealing a Windows license right now, and don't want to go through the hoop jumping of running an Eval version. I may still test with Windows as it would be far easier for me to get up and running, my Linux skills are poor.
I know these are pretty newb questions, would appreciate the help.