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

marcus2704 · 20 Jan 2011 at 10:12

Had fun and games yesterday with this. I have it running Freenas with 4 x 2TB drives in a ZFS Raid 5 array. I created a chunk of iSCSI storage so I could move my VMs there to allow me to ditch the internal hard drives from my Proliant ML115s. Everything seemed fine for about 3 hours, however the network connection started to drop every few minutes or so. Id made the hasty decision to move my DC into this shared storage area, meaning that my network was crippled as I couldnt boot it. I couldnt migrate the VMs back to their original locations using VCenter as this also was affected by the constant dropouts, I couldnt get it to boot in time let alone sit there moving the VMs back to their original hosts. Eventually I managed to download the VMDK files locally, and then manually uploaded them back to their original hosts. I may have to look to purchase a new NIC that is on the Freenas HCL, as shared storage is something Id really like to be using.

IAmATeaf · 21 Jan 2011 at 09:01

Has anybody actually received any monies so far? Loads of people including myself have posted to say yes the claim has been accepted but I've not seen a single post anywhere to say they've received a cheque.

kg648 · 21 Jan 2011 at 09:02

It won't be sent until Feb

the.m · 21 Jan 2011 at 11:23

I had my cheque last week

IAmATeaf · 21 Jan 2011 at 11:54

the.m said:
I had my cheque last week

First person whose had monies back then, when did you send off your claim?

the.m · 21 Jan 2011 at 12:03

IAmATeaf said:
First person whose had monies back then, when did you send off your claim?

I cant remember but they confirmed it on the 16th Dec.

Havn't cashed it yet

Berwhale · 21 Jan 2011 at 12:28

Crivens! How long is it going to take if they write them all out by hand :O

kingofbeans · 21 Jan 2011 at 13:37

Hi,

Anyone know which resellers are ok for getting this cashback? As there does still seem to be a couple of sellers around selling these, but I dont know if they are official HP resellers.

Thanks

the.m · 21 Jan 2011 at 13:58

kingofbeans said:
Hi,

Anyone know which resellers are ok for getting this cashback? As there does still seem to be a couple of sellers around selling these, but I dont know if they are official HP resellers.

Thanks

Doesnt matter where you buy it but for the cash back is must be part no
612275-421

mikeh501 · 21 Jan 2011 at 16:14

So I downloaded crystal disk mark that other people have been using to see disk performance. As posted back a few pages im having issues with buffering on a remote XBMC live box. It all worked fine prior to swapping the ml115 with the microserver.

Anyhow i cant see it being the disks. Im getting 303MB/s sequential read speeds. Is that measure the one which is most like reading a large file? it gets 30MB/s for 512kb chunks

Sh4rkie · 21 Jan 2011 at 16:23

mikeh501 said:
So I downloaded crystal disk mark that other people have been using to see disk performance. As posted back a few pages im having issues with buffering on a remote XBMC live box. It all worked fine prior to swapping the ml115 with the microserver.

Anyhow i cant see it being the disks. Im getting 303MB/s sequential read speeds. Is that measure the one which is most like reading a large file? it gets 30MB/s for 512kb chunks

Disable flow control on the NIC if it's enabled. I had problems streaming to my HTPC and flow control was enabled by default, grrr.

Might be worth using ATTO to bench the drives as well.

nikzGfx · 22 Jan 2011 at 10:23

Got my cheque today as well handwritten just like picture above :-D

Nikumba · 22 Jan 2011 at 10:53

Any chance when people get their cheques and post they got it also post the date they got the confirmation email, just so gives us an idea how long it takes

Kimbie

kingofbeans · 22 Jan 2011 at 11:55

the.m said:
Doesnt matter where you buy it but for the cash back is must be part no
612275-421

T&Cs say:

'The promotion is valid only on new units purchased and invoiced directly from HP or a UK HP authorised reseller.'

So I guess I want to know if there is somewhere on HPs site where I can find a list of UK HP authorised resellers?

Fourstar · 22 Jan 2011 at 12:20

Cheque arrived this morning.

Confirmation email: 21/12/10
Date on cheque: 18/01/11
Date on cover letter: 19/01/11

mikeh501 · 22 Jan 2011 at 12:25

Got my cheque this morning. Confirmed before Xmas.

smallstool · 22 Jan 2011 at 13:51

Me too!

Syx · 22 Jan 2011 at 14:35

kingofbeans said:
T&Cs say:

'The promotion is valid only on new units purchased and invoiced directly from HP or a UK HP authorised reseller.'

So I guess I want to know if there is somewhere on HPs site where I can find a list of UK HP authorised resellers?

I'm fairly sure that people on this forum have bought theirs from sellers far and wide due to the popularity of the item! The problem you're about to face is finding one in stock... especially if you're only looking at a list of resellers that HP has published.

I've had a few emails through recently of "We've got this item back in stock!", but they're all the newer 250GB models that don't qualify for the rebate - so be careful before you buy. Even a reseller on Amazon was doing the same IIRC.

DarkMatter · 24 Jan 2011 at 16:32

For some reason the NIC in mine has decided that it wants to work in 10/half mode :S making all my transfers VERY slow. Has anyone got any idea why this would be happening? I have tried swapping the routers around to give it a direct connection to my laptop and still

it gives me transfer speeds of 500kb/s or so.

joey1211 · 24 Jan 2011 at 16:37

crossover cable off the top of my head?