The HP Proliant Microserver thread

[Mazdarese]

Y'all

Just about to order one of these and thought I'd share the deal with you.

£212 for the server, £100 cash back. Use the code MYVWIN25 at checkout for a further 2.5% off, meaning it's £112 delivered after the cash back.

£90 for another 4gb and you've got yourself a decent-ish server, which I will be running VSphere on myself.

[va1o]

Looks good for the money, but I'm always a bit suspect of these cashback type deals! Would make a nice small server though.

[Mattt]

Seems it would make a good NAS, seems a bit underpowered for a server.

[furs307c]

Weve just got one of these at work, for the price its really nice, well built etc, ours runs sbs 08

[john_p]

furs307c said:

Weve just got one of these at work, for the price its really nice, well built etc, ours runs sbs 08

Is it noisy?

[MrAdaam]

I dont suppose you'll be opening it up will you? Might be interested myself but will want a different processor in. Seems quite under-powered.

[furs307c]

Its not too noisy at all really, although our office has quite alot of ambient noise, only 1 fan for the whole system at the back pulling air from the front too which is good. Its pretty easy to remove the motherboard, as we added some more ram, but not shure if the CPU is user changable im afraid.

[detchibe]

Just ordered two, needed a new box to run SBS 08 for a couple of users

[BliarOut]

I'd be interested to hear how it handles SBS.

[mikeh501]

mine arrived yesterday. very nicely screwed together little box, and unbeatable pricing. I intend using it as a home NAS running possibly ubuntu server (maybe) serving up 8tb of storage

[BliarOut]

I'm currently running SBS 2008 on an AMD, it's unbelievably slow to do anything locally but fine across apps across the wire.

Index: CPU0
Manufacturer: AuthenticAMD
Type: AMD64 Family 15 Model 95 Stepping 3
Model: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000
Socket Type: Socket 940 (Socket AM2 )
Max Speed MHz: 2611
Current Speed MHz: 2611
External Clock: 200
Current Voltage: 13


4 x 1 GB of 667 DIMMs.

[BigJonMcQuimm]

Hi

What are the dimensions?

Also interested for a 8TB nas!

thanks

[MaximumJed]

Tempted to use one of these as a NAS and run Linux from the internal USB slot. Would that be feasible? Any point in putting software RAID across all four drives and maybe a fifth via esata?

[mikeh501]

MaximumJed said:

Tempted to use one of these as a NAS and run Linux from the internal USB slot. Would that be feasible? Any point in putting software RAID across all four drives and maybe a fifth via esata?

Thats how I intend running mine. ive read a number of people using the CDROM slot as a fifth drive too (and can confirm it has the power and extra sata slot ready to go); not sure about the esata connection. I heard the esata is not multi point either, so just a single disk.

[onlynik]

BigJonMcQuimm said:

Hi

What are the dimensions?

Also interested for a 8TB nas!

thanks

Dimensions (WxDxH): 21 cm x 26 cm x 26.7 cm
Weight: 6 kg

[MaximumJed]

mikeh501 said:

MaximumJed said:

Tempted to use one of these as a NAS and run Linux from the internal USB slot. Would that be feasible? Any point in putting software RAID across all four drives and maybe a fifth via esata?

Thats how I intend running mine. ive read a number of people using the CDROM slot as a fifth drive too (and can confirm it has the power and extra sata slot ready to go); not sure about the esata connection. I heard the esata is not multi point either, so just a single disk.

Hadn't thought of that. I've currently got about 5Tb of data spread across a couple of servers and I have to create maps to each drive - would much rather have a Raid 5 or 6 that appears as a single data store to all users. I'm hoping to manage it with this and a Linux server install, though I've not been too successful with Linux before.

[mikeh501]

MaximumJed said:

mikeh501 said:

MaximumJed said:

Tempted to use one of these as a NAS and run Linux from the internal USB slot. Would that be feasible? Any point in putting software RAID across all four drives and maybe a fifth via esata?

Thats how I intend running mine. ive read a number of people using the CDROM slot as a fifth drive too (and can confirm it has the power and extra sata slot ready to go); not sure about the esata connection. I heard the esata is not multi point either, so just a single disk.

Hadn't thought of that. I've currently got about 5Tb of data spread across a couple of servers and I have to create maps to each drive - would much rather have a Raid 5 or 6 that appears as a single data store to all users. I'm hoping to manage it with this and a Linux server install, though I've not been too successful with Linux before.

Ive also heard some people struggling with linux software raid too, although its not entirely substantiated. Heard good things about solaris ZFS for NAS use too.

[MaximumJed]

I am considering installing FreeNAS on it, sounds like just what I need and it supports ZFS too.

[paddyhasneeds]

I'll likely be ordering one of these tomorrow as I need something as cheap as possible to sit in a closet and run vSphere to run a cluster manager VM.

Looks fabulous for the money.

[BliarOut]

Will you alternative OS boys sod off, I want to hear from the SBS fraternity