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

Bought mine last week, paid £262 inc shipping.. confirmation of my £100 cash back being accepted arrived this morning.
 
Hang on guys can I ask something about this Hyper-V product then....

Is this which appears to be free, a copy of Win Server 2k8 with Hyper-V installed, or is it the equivalent of ESXi?

Another question - is it possible to install Hyper-V on top of Win server 2k8 R2 if you for free if you already have a license for 2k8
 
steinooo said:
Hang on guys can I ask something about this Hyper-V product then....

Is this which appears to be free, a copy of Win Server 2k8 with Hyper-V installed, or is it the equivalent of ESXi?

More like ESXi. It's Server 2008 stripped of almost everything except the hypervisor role (mostly command line)

Another question - is it possible to install Hyper-V on top of Win server 2k8 R2 if you for free if you already have a license for 2k8

Yes. Just add Hyper-V as a server role
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twe said:
How much did you pay for the server?
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£254 inc delivery. It's got a Borg decal skin on it as well, just fancied something a bit different. Only got stock photos because, like I say, won't get my hands on it for 2 weeks, just sitting there at home, waiting! lol.

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I'm having problems booting from an eSata drive, anyone got any tips for me please? I can't even see eSata mentioned in the BIOS? I'm on the original BIOS btw
 
Hi - ordered my N40L, 8Gb RAM and 3xWD 2TB green drives. I am split between going with judt openmediavault or esxi with openmediavault and Ubuntu so I can play on the Ubuntu side while having a separate nas.

If I go with openmediavault as the host os I can use its software RAID5. If I go with esxi I will need to buy a hardware raid5 controller. Can anyone recommend a cheap but reliable raid controller that works with the N40L?
 
My hard drives arrived today - just waiting for the N40L itself now. Does the microserver come with the cables you need to connect the hard drives? If not then do you just use standard sata cables? What length ones do you recommend?
 
On the N36L you just fix the HDDs into the removable holder and then slide it into the bay. I imagine the N40L is the same, no extra cables needed
 
dubcat said:
If I go with openmediavault as the host os I can use its software RAID5. If I go with esxi I will need to buy a hardware raid5 controller. Can anyone recommend a cheap but reliable raid controller that works with the N40L?
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There is nothing stopping you from doing software RAID5 in OpenMediaVault within ESXi.
You could create a vdisk on at least 3 of the physical disks and present and RAID5 those.

Just keep in mind that when you install OMV it will only create a 1Gb partition on the disk - everything else on there goes to waste. This is pretty simple on ESXi, if you wanted to use OMV as the base OS a USB stick will be your best bet.
 
Ghosteh said:
£254 inc delivery. It's got a Borg decal skin on it as well, just fancied something a bit different. Only got stock photos because, like I say, won't get my hands on it for 2 weeks, just sitting there at home, waiting! lol.
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I was going to order that one, did you get free delivery? May wait a little bit before deciding on buying, just spent a lot this month.....

Yeh can't see anyone posting photos of it so only seen stock too.....
 
just about to order one now, can someone confirm if the N40L still requires the BIOS update to get full speeds from ports 5/6?
 
Little_Crow said:
There is nothing stopping you from doing software RAID5 in OpenMediaVault within ESXi.
You could create a vdisk on at least 3 of the physical disks and present and RAID5 those.

Just keep in mind that when you install OMV it will only create a 1Gb partition on the disk - everything else on there goes to waste. This is pretty simple on ESXi, if you wanted to use OMV as the base OS a USB stick will be your best bet.
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Yup to be honest I want to boot off USB whether I go with ubuntu server or omv. I am thinking I will just go with one OS now and stuff the hypervisor.

I don't quite understand how OMV (or any other OS come to that) can do software raid 5 inside of a VM. Surely the VM is presented with a virtualised representation of the available storage via the hypervisor - no? I am a noob so please go gentle with me - if i need to start another thread let me know and i will do so.
 
dubcat said:
I don't quite understand how OMV (or any other OS come to that) can do software raid 5 inside of a VM.
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The OS in a VM only sees what you configure it to see - memory, disk space etc

When you create a vdisk for a VM you are actually only creating a file of that amount of space - the OS however sees it as a physical disk.

Carve out 3 vDisks (from seperate phyiscal disks to actually give yourself resiliency) and the OS just sees 3 physical disks - the minimum you need to setup RAID5.
I don't vouch for the performance of a RAID5 array setup this way, but it is doable.
 
Ah ok that does make perfect sense now. Thanks very much! :) Thinking about it - i think I will just keep things simple and install ubuntu on my usb drive, try to minimise writes to the flash drive, and skip the virtualisation thing. If i want to have a go later i will just use KVM.
 
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