Comments on: Lanner NCA-1515A Review This is the Home Lab Deal of the Year

By: Miguel Gonzalez

Miguel Gonzalez — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:09:39 +0000

I bought a unit Lanner 1515 A without IPMI card, where could I buy one of those IPMI Card ?
Thanks in advance

By: Joe Doss

Joe Doss — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 17:11:15 +0000

A quick follow up. I created a new IPMI admin user and all of my issues with IPMI went away. It is still a pretty buggy BMC firmware but at least I can use the HTML KVM.

By: Joe Doss

Joe Doss — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:09:24 +0000

I picked up a few of these for testing in my datacenter for a remote access appliance and so far the IPMI experience is pretty bad. You cannot log into the web UI with Firefox at all. Google Chrome works, but the KVM does not work. There is nothing on Lanner’s site for the NCA-1515A in terms of BMC firmware updates and Lanner’s support has been silent on any of my help requests.

The price is right on these for sure but I think you get what you pay for. Not having a working IPMI is kind of a show stopper for my usecase.

By: Chris Barbie

Chris Barbie — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:40:02 +0000

Does anyone know if the Sierra Wireless AirPrime EM7455 in this unit will work with pfSense or OPENSENSE?

By: Malvineous

Malvineous — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:32:32 +0000

The only thing that bothers me with things like this is what if you use it for real work and start to rely on it? Like I have a remote site I need LTE for, so what if I got this and set it up out there, and then a year later it breaks? It probably won’t be available for sale in a year’s time, so I won’t be able to buy another one and swap it over and keep going. I’ll have to find a different product, reconfigure everything (e.g. udev rules for the different LTE device in the new product) and basically set it up from scratch again, do all the testing to make sure everything works, etc.

It’s for this reason I’ve ended up going with Raspberry Pis and USB LTE adapters, because although they are slower and don’t have as much crammed into the same space, replacing any failed devices is much easier over the long term.

By: AldiK

AldiK — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 19:58:15 +0000

@casper but it ONLY wins when you’re talking CPU-only, and not about vCPUs in that. These do virtualization too.

@Jason I’ve got a few of those Qotom’s. You can easily virtualize on them and they’re making great lab systems. This is plenty to make a firewall, vpn endpoint, router, backup wwan appliance, and still have a few other VMs or containers on.