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I put the OCUK value ram (2x 4GB) into it and its working fine. Running Windows Server 2012 at the minute.

Does anyone know if there is a trick to getting the server to sleep and wake-on-lan? Mine just stays up 24/7 and I would like to make it sleep at night when it won't be used.
 
AMMUT said:
I put the OCUK value ram (2x 4GB) into it and its working fine. Running Windows Server 2012 at the minute.

Does anyone know if there is a trick to getting the server to sleep and wake-on-lan? Mine just stays up 24/7 and I would like to make it sleep at night when it won't be used.
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Would be good if someone could tell me how to get WOL to work over the WAN, I can wake my server up from the LAN using the WOL feature on my router, but if I try to do it over the WAN, using a third party app, or the WOL feature on my router at home to send a magic packet to my microserver, it will not wake.
 
WTB An elegant solution at a cheap price.

My itunes library is on my server with WHS 2011 and the itunes add in. I want to stream it in some way to my home cinema sound system but I cannot find a solution. I do have a WD Live Player but it does not like dealing with my library and regularly crashes. I have thought about buying an iPod and dock but that's not very elegant either.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks.
 
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Damn it, voicemail this afternoon, turns out my RAM wasnt in stock :( no playing around with ESXi tomorrow for me then :(
 
Sure you can, install 4.1 like I did and then run the esxi 5 installer when your new ram comes :)


You can also decrease the graphics ram allocation in the bios.
 
Sweet, well I may nip out to a store in cardiff to buy some tomorrow, if I cant grab it ill order this as I really wanted to have a play tomorrow night
 
Just a quick one for you ESXi heads, I am about to set this up as I now have 8GB ram, as mentioned before, I have a 250GB HDD which I am going to install on, I do have another 500GB HDD but this is partitioned and has data on

If I install ESXi on the 250GB, and leave the other drive unplugged, can I later plug in the 500GB drive and let ESXi see it? will my data be safe? I just want to continue using that 500GB drive as a data drive, I dont want for ESXi to format or wipe any data.

EDIT: ESXi is installed on my microserver, have created a virtual machine, just installing windows server 2008 R2
 
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I have been reading up on many forums about raid setup etc, like i have said my data needs to be safe i know that raid isnt 100% secure and backups is the only way but i feel having raid will secure my files even more.

i plan to do the following i still dont really know if this is the best solution tbh so anyone who thinks i can do better please say

Windows 7 - 4x2TB HDD software raid 1 - OS 60GB SSD windows backup to external HDD

My thinking is
2 x 2TB HDD have a constant backup if one dies - then simply replace disk all sorted
OS HDD also backed up incase of failure to that drive

I guess that if the OS HDD failure and i restored it to another drive it would pick up the raid setup? also does windows 7 support software raid 1+0?

I know people will say why not use hardware raid but the way i think is if one thing goes wrong a cable pulled bios reset etc its lost with no backup im hoping the windows route provides a more solid backup
 
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Just a quick one for you ESXi heads, I am about to set this up as I now have 8GB ram, as mentioned before, I have a 250GB HDD which I am going to install on, I do have another 500GB HDD but this is partitioned and has data on

If I install ESXi on the 250GB, and leave the other drive unplugged, can I later plug in the 500GB drive and let ESXi see it? will my data be safe? I just want to continue using that 500GB drive as a data drive, I dont want for ESXi to format or wipe any data.

EDIT: ESXi is installed on my microserver, have created a virtual machine, just installing windows server 2008 R2
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Put ESXi on a USB drive, there's an internal slot just for this :D But yes, if you plug the other one in later you don't need to format it. I think if you use RDM you can even attach it to any VM and it'll see all the data in-tact.
 
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Put ESXi on a USB drive, there's an internal slot just for this :D But yes, if you plug the other one in later you don't need to format it. I think if you use RDM you can even attach it to any VM and it'll see all the data in-tact.
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Tried to get RDM working last night, although I stopped at a stage because it said it was going to re-partition/wipe data on the drive I added with the data I do not wish to lose.

Not sure what I could be doing wrong?
 
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I have been reading up on many forums about raid setup etc, like i have said my data needs to be safe i know that raid isnt 100% secure and backups is the only way but i feel having raid will secure my files even more.

i plan to do the following i still dont really know if this is the best solution tbh so anyone who thinks i can do better please say

Windows 7 - 4x2TB HDD software raid 1 - OS 60GB SSD windows backup to external HDD

My thinking is
2 x 2TB HDD have a constant backup if one dies - then simply replace disk all sorted
OS HDD also backed up incase of failure to that drive

I guess that if the OS HDD failure and i restored it to another drive it would pick up the raid setup? also does windows 7 support software raid 1+0?

I know people will say why not use hardware raid but the way i think is if one thing goes wrong a cable pulled bios reset etc its lost with no backup im hoping the windows route provides a more solid backup
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Use the onboard RAID instead of windows RAID. No you won't lose any data if the bios gets wiped or even if the server dies you could take the drives out and put them in any windows PC and access the data fine. You could even take the drives out and put them in another microserver and the raid would work just as it did in your microserver.

When you create a RAID array the harddrives are marked as being part of a RAID array and the RAID bios detects this as it boots. So the only way you could lose you data really is if a power spike kills the harddrives dead or you get unlucky and 2 harddrives from the same array die before you can replace and rebuild the array after the first hdd death.

The only negative to using the onboard RAID over windows RAID is that windows can't spin down any of the drives so they turned on all the time.
 
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Here is the proof

esxi.jpg


:p

Still need to get some stuff sorted, lots to do and I have a gut feeling I will have to go back and do it all again but that's how we learn :)

Need to sort out how carry out RDM to a device with data on (That I dont want to lose!)

I must say the HP Microserver is handling this well at the moment with the Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10600 C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit, the processing also seems good
 
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