cpu replacement - pentium to xeon

[phier]

hello,
i am running old freenas 9x with Pentium, can i just replace cpu to xeon v3? Will it boot without issues?

thanks!

 

[ThreeDee]

You'd have to check the CPU compatibility list for your particular motherboard

 

[phier]

@ThreeDee hw wise its compatible, i am afraid if bootstick find other cpu if doesnt crash on kernel panic.

 

[mav@]

TrueNAS has very little ties to specific hardware. Mostly just network interface names in configuration, etc. CPUs definitely can be replaced. I am slightly worrying about mentioned 9.x version, it would be a long chain of updates.

 

[phier]

@mav@ sounds good. Well i want to build new machine in parallel with latest truenas and migrate. as these updates might not work properly etc.

 

[ddaenen1]

i have swapped out motherboards and CPU's on existing FreeNAS and TrueNAS installations. Never had any issues except for the NIC configuration since i had a LAGG configured which didn't play well with my router.