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

Vanilla said:
About the same but hardware accelration can be enabled in XBMC just fine - wont work otherwise!
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Having some strange issues here. Xbmc hardware acceleration doesn't have an effect and looks like its ignoring the card. The CCC utilities also claim that the driver isn't installed correctly even though it is.

Think it's time for Win7 to go on as it's doing my head in. The only reason for WHS was for the remote file access but I can achieve that with an FTP server on my VM. Pain but never mind.
 
jamesfreddie said:
Have you used Server 2008 before?

Would you be better using WHS 2011?
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Played with before so should be comfortable, can't really afford WHS at the moment. It would be the better choice, but if this will do the job (albeit a bit more tricky) I'll use it for the time being :)
 
steinooo said:
There's no way of getting ESXi to passthrough the power of a GPU to a VM is there? I'm guessing that's pie in the sky....
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There is, but not on the Microserver. You need a chipset that supports Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU.
It's called VM Directpath, lets you pass two PCI-E devices directly through to the VM - GPU's, NIC's, RAID controllers, USB controllers you name it.

My Microserver ESXi host has a Pink Screen of Death problem atm, probably a dodgy USB stick. I'll take the opportunity to upgrade to ESXi-5 at the time. Need to get back home and find my external CD Drive first as I seem to recall having issues installing ESXi from one USB onto another last time.
 
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Zarf said:
There is, but not on the Microserver. You need a chipset that supports Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU.
It's called VM Directpath, lets you pass two PCI-E devices directly through to the VM - GPU's, NIC's, RAID controllers, USB controllers you name it.
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wow, learn something new every day! didn't know you could do that.

ah well, I'm happy with a dual boot system, one usb stick for ESXi and one for XBMC :) I've got it ready to open now :D
 
Help, I'm trying to upgrade the RAM but there's a black plug on the left side that will not budge so I can't get the mobo out, Any idea how to get it to move. I can't tell you what it is as I've never seen one before.
 
It's probably the Sata breakout cable and is known to be a pig to remove sometimes. Try pushing the plug all the way in and then pushing and holding the silver metal part of the plug in as far as it it will go which will push the lugs in on the plug and pull the plug up and hopefully it will release from the socket.
 
Got it now, thanks for the tip, used a small screwdriver to help me out in the end. Cheers
Now trying to install esxi but I get to a screen asking to confirm something or press something and neither do anything, in fact I can't even get the caps lock light on and off, it works until esxi installer boots. Is it cause I'm using my gaming keyboard (I don't have another usb keyboard in the house).
 
Cooners said:
Got it now, thanks for the tip, used a small screwdriver to help me out in the end. Cheers
Now trying to install esxi but I get to a screen asking to confirm something or press something and neither do anything, in fact I can't even get the caps lock light on and off, it works until esxi installer boots. Is it cause I'm using my gaming keyboard (I don't have another usb keyboard in the house).
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GOTCHA!!!

It got me too.

You need a bog standard USB keyboard. Anything fancy and it won't work! :D

Thankfully any computer shop will have one for a couple of quid. :)
 
Hey,

Im looking to buy one of these for CCTV recording (standard def), hosting a small Minecraft Server (no more than 4players) and Multimedia streaming across the network. It will be a wierd network 100mb+. Just wondering if the server could handle all of this at any one time.

And could someone send me some links to a graphics card, and more ram (8gb).

Thanks for any help :)
 
lennshow66 said:
Hey,

Im looking to buy one of these for CCTV recording (standard def), hosting a small Minecraft Server (no more than 4players) and Multimedia streaming across the network. It will be a wierd network 100mb+. Just wondering if the server could handle all of this at any one time.

And could someone send me some links to a graphics card, and more ram (8gb).

Thanks for any help :)
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Why do you want a VGA card?

Just google 4GB DDR3 Kingston you should find the ram everyone uses.
 
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