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

I received my microserver yesterday with whs 2011. I'm just using it as a NAS with the single 250gb drive that comes with it. Is there a way to hide the shares that users don't have access to?
 
Cd1986 said:
I received my microserver yesterday with whs 2011. I'm just using it as a NAS with the single 250gb drive that comes with it. Is there a way to hide the shares that users don't have access to?
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I haven't used whs but usually with windows shares you can add a $ to the end of the share name which will hide it from everyone but those with permissions can still map to it, for example 'p0rn$'
 
Lol, just to be clear, it's to hide the default shares that won't be used. I will need to add lots of new shares and the default will be unused and therefore just annoying clutter.

Will try adding the $ though, thanks
 
I was thinking of using a USB external hard drive to backup the server. Might even mount it in the optical drive bay and plug it into the internal USB port. Does that sound like a good idea?
 
tbz_ck said:
The main benefit of a hypervisor is to enable you to run multiple OSes simultaneously on the same hardware. That's the bottom line.

Since I am an IT Consultant/MSP the Microserver forms part of my test lab for developing/testing solutions that I would deploy at a customer's site.

If all you intend to run is WHS 2011 on it then there is no need to run a hypervisor etc.

On mine at the moment I have WHS 2011, Windows 8 Client, SBS Essentials 2011, and an Ubuntu client running Ubiquiti Unifi controller :) Not all of them are running at the same time at the moment.

Without virtualisation I would need a separate box for each of those OS'es.

The other benefit for me is that once I have tested/proved a potential solution, I can document it so that when I come to do it at a customer site I'm likely to do it right first time. Massive benefit for me as a one-man band :)
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh now I get it

Thanks for taking the time out to answer :)

Just that I've seen this ESXi/HyperV stuff throughout this thread. And I understand more why so many guys seem to be running it now. Test Labs etc.

I use VM's (VirtualBox), on one of my dual booting rigs, to run test out's of OS's before installing to rigs full term. So I guess it's very much along the same lines.

Thanks once again. :)
 
Cd1986 said:
I was thinking of using a USB external hard drive to backup the server. Might even mount it in the optical drive bay and plug it into the internal USB port. Does that sound like a good idea?
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Nah... not really

Keep it external .. that way you can remove it and place it in another secure place away from the server location
 
Should do, but I don't know if it will be 2D/3D accelerated. I run mine all headless anyhow and media is served to different devices around the house. I don't have a 3D card in the Microserver. However there is some experimental 3D support within ESXi 5 Update 1 (its a tick box under the properties of the video card in the VM settings page).

I'd read up on it.

or.....try it and report back ! :)
 
Don't forgot to try turning on write caching in the bios if your seeing performance issues. Just be aware of the data loss if the box goes down suddenly.
 
tododo said:
So the ubuntu and whs will both be virtual machines - will xbmc still output to hdmi as currently - just trying to get right in my head before attempting on the weekend

Thanks again
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I'm afraid that since the Microserver doesn't have a chipset that supports passing PCI-E devices through to VM's (VT-d or IOMMU), your Ubuntu/XBMC VM won't use the graphics card at all, neither for decode acceleration nor HDMI output.
 
Zarf said:
I'm afraid that since the Microserver doesn't have a chipset that supports passing PCI-E devices through to VM's (VT-d or IOMMU), your Ubuntu/XBMC VM won't use the graphics card at all, neither for decode acceleration nor HDMI output.
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Excellent thanks.... that rules out the idea altogether then - dont want to lose xbmc ability at all - thats what the box is mainly used for
 
tododo said:
Excellent thanks.... that rules out the idea altogether then - dont want to lose xbmc ability at all - thats what the box is mainly used for
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That's a shame then. As I said I've never installed a 3D card in any of my Microserver installations so didn't know whether ESXi would work for you.
 
tododo said:
Excellent thanks.... that rules out the idea altogether then - dont want to lose xbmc ability at all - thats what the box is mainly used for
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There are other ways to virtualize, and whilst you may not be able to pass through, you should still be able to run what you need on the host, whilst guests handle whatever you need from them. At otherwise stated, there are perofrmance hits with virtualization, so it may not be in your best interests, but if you just want to play, use raw KVM on ubuntu.
 
Hi all,

I seem to remember when I got this server that I really wanted an additional NIC, but now that I have one I don't can't remember why I wanted it :D
 
first rookie mistake for me :D

dont have a molex to sata for the dvd rom i need to install lol! trust me to forget the dvd rom is sata power connection only

ah well looks like it will be a few more days till ill get mine up and running
 
OK, upgraded to 8GB, whacked some disks in, installed WHS 2011

Got SABNZB runnig well, and Sickbeard , couchpotato next.

Problems I am having are:

1)The shares to my photo and music directory wokred straight away, PS3 and laptop can see them no problem...but...no matter what i do I cant seem to be able to either open the video folder (No eprmission on laptop) or see any files within it....arghhhh help

2)PS3 media server, got nothing happening on this at all, mucho fed up, am i best running it as an app or a service?

Thanks
 
MikeB said:
OK, upgraded to 8GB, whacked some disks in, installed WHS 2011

Got SABNZB runnig well, and Sickbeard , couchpotato next.

Problems I am having are:

1)The shares to my photo and music directory wokred straight away, PS3 and laptop can see them no problem...but...no matter what i do I cant seem to be able to either open the video folder (No eprmission on laptop) or see any files within it....arghhhh help

2)PS3 media server, got nothing happening on this at all, mucho fed up, am i best running it as an app or a service?

Thanks
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Check the NTFS permissions on the folders you want to share. You might need to add the Guest account.
 
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