Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD

jpmonkey69 · 27 Nov 2011 at 20:55

challengedavid said:
hi,

all together now, few questions on whs2011

how or can i have a automatic shutdown timer not a sleep timer
say to automatic shutdown instead of sleep after 60mins?

whats the best free antivirus for it or do you need it?

is it best to give it a static ip address?

thanks

1) Set up a scheduled task at the specific time you want the countdown to start?...

"shutdown -s -f -t 3600"

should run a shutdown command, force running tasks to end in 3600 seconds (1 hour)

2) I use AVG, the free ones are all much of a muchness to be honest.

3) When you assign a static address to the server, make sure it is not in the DHCP range that your router assigns out to DHCP clients, otherwise you might get conflicting IP addresses.

Beans on toast Dave · 27 Nov 2011 at 21:32

thanks for that, for some reason i can only get the task to work if a user is logged on

lloydsj · 27 Nov 2011 at 22:20

IndieSchmindie said:
I've got one of these now.

Very please with it but I'm having a little trouble with getting 3TB drives working as RDM in ESXi. I followed the instructions in the thread and it seems to work, but within the VM's (Windows 7 as an example) it won't convert to a GPT disk as it says it's too small. If I view it in diskpart, it suggests it's only 512 bytes.

Any ideas?

i think it only supports 2TB hdd's max

IndieSchmindie · 27 Nov 2011 at 22:41

ESXi 5 supports up to 64TB on RDM I think.

lloydsj · 27 Nov 2011 at 22:51

IndieSchmindie said:
ESXi 5 supports up to 64TB on RDM I think.

The microserver itself i meant (assuming you're talking about 1 x 3TB disk).

Koalaboy · 27 Nov 2011 at 22:51

Does anyone know if it's possible to control the fan from linux ? I've installed the lm-sensors package on Debian, and get some readings, but I'm not sure if I can affect the fan (and I don't want to adversly affect it).

So far though, it's running beautifully

Ta.

IndieSchmindie · 27 Nov 2011 at 23:11

lloydsj said:
The microserver itself i meant (assuming you're talking about 1 x 3TB disk).

They are recognised in the SCSI controller OK. I'm pretty sure other people here have used them as well.

MikeHiow · 28 Nov 2011 at 01:14

How are you creating the RDM? Are you creating a physical RDM? (Method for this is listed in my post further up the page.

MehulLakhani · 28 Nov 2011 at 01:16

I am about to buy one of these machines for XBMC and WHS . Just wondering what video card people would recommend - Ati or Nvidia - every report I read seems to conflict with the last report ?!?!?!? :eek:

Thanks

Mehul

Sinbad · 28 Nov 2011 at 07:58

I'm considering upgrading the ram in my 40L system to 8GB.

Can someone recommend something suitable for me.

Thanks

IndieSchmindie · 28 Nov 2011 at 08:03

MikeHiow said:
How are you creating the RDM? Are you creating a physical RDM? (Method for this is listed in my post further up the page.

I'm following the guide and I'm sure I'm doing it right because I just tried with an old 120GB drive and it worked fine.

It's annoying because the drives are recognised in ESXi as 3TB fine. It's only I come to mount them in windows I get the problem.

Koalaboy · 28 Nov 2011 at 09:14

Sinbad said:
I'm considering upgrading the ram in my 40L system to 8GB.

Can someone recommend something suitable for me.

This is what's in mine:

KINGSTON 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM
Manufacturer Part Code: KVR1333D3N9/4G

Two sticks of, as provided/recommended by the supplier. Seems to work fine.

Sinbad · 28 Nov 2011 at 09:19

Thanks for that Koalaboy - exactly the detail I was looking for!

HEADRAT · 28 Nov 2011 at 09:25

Remember if your putting a 32bit OS on it won't be able to use 8GB

MikeHiow · 28 Nov 2011 at 11:18

IndieSchmindie said:
I'm following the guide and I'm sure I'm doing it right because I just tried with an old 120GB drive and it worked fine.

It's annoying because the drives are recognised in ESXi as 3TB fine. It's only I come to mount them in windows I get the problem.

Which guide?

We cannot help if we do not know exactly what you're doing

HEADRAT · 28 Nov 2011 at 11:36

Trying to find a legit copy of WHS v1, can't find it anywhere, everybody seems to be flogging 2011

kae2 · 28 Nov 2011 at 11:41

HEADRAT said:
Trying to find a legit copy of WHS v1, can't find it anywhere, everybody seems to be flogging 2011

I ended up buying it from the evil auction site, came as new with authentic code and disks. DE is just too good to pass up on for me!

HEADRAT · 28 Nov 2011 at 11:45

Yeah, I can't even find it on there

I guess I might have to go down the 2011 route!

IndieSchmindie · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:19

MikeHiow said:
Which guide?

We cannot help if we do not know exactly what you're doing

The one linked in the thread.

http://blog.davidwarburton.net/2010/10/25/rdm-mapping-of-local-sata-storage-for-esxi/

What I've found so far is.

1) Install windows directly to the micro server, it can see both the 3TB drives.
2) Install ESXi and follow the guide with a 120GB drive as RDM, everything is fine.
3) Install ESXi and follow the guide using the 3TB drives and everything seems fine in ESXi (The drives are correctly identified as 3TB) but when you come to add them in windows, it reads them as 512bytes.

Unless anyone else has managed to achieve this, I'm beginning to think it's just not possible, which is a shame as both the microserver BIOS and ESXi 5 both claim to support drives >2TB.

HEADRAT · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:24

Is there a BIOS for the N40L AHCI on the ESATA like there is for the N36L?