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

I've noticed quite a few people are using the microserver for torrents/newsgroups, do you run these clients as virtual machines or are you running these off the direct hardware?

I'm not sure whether to go for a NAS4free vm + general purpose VM (clients etc). Or just install NAS4Free and try manual installs of the clients.
 
DiscoDave said:
I've noticed quite a few people are using the microserver for torrents/newsgroups, do you run these clients as virtual machines or are you running these off the direct hardware?

I'm not sure whether to go for a NAS4free vm + general purpose VM (clients etc). Or just install NAS4Free and try manual installs of the clients.
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Ubuntu Server for me with SABnzbd. I don't do much in the way of torrents so I haven't really looked at installing anything for that.
 
Rossi~ said:
But these AMD Turions have a dual channel memory controller. Have HP done something to only utilise one channel somehow? must have gone right out of their way to do so.
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My apologies. It appears I have been misinformed.

I spent a lot (probably too much!) time reading up on these machines before buying one and I saw several references to it not being dual channel capable. Since your comment I've looked into it further and it seems those comments were wrong, and so was I to repeat it.

That'll teach me not to believe everything I read on the internet :D
 
i got an itch yesterday, didnt know what to buy so i bought a

HP ProLiant G7 N54L 2.2GHz MicroServer

now... what do i do with it :P i bought a rasberry pi at the same time, as i really dont know what i want the server for.

any tips/tricks/things i MUST do for it to be a worth while purchase?
 
MagicBoy said:
Read the thread. :D
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funnily enough ive read quite a lot of it, but with it being a 3 year thread, there is a lot of old info that im guessing no longer applies, thats not covered later on in the thread :P :D

i *think* i know what im going to do when i get it, but a quick rundown of what you guys have done might help me decide easier, hence the post ;)
 
The "What do you use your home server for?" thread will give you some ideas. Link here

Basically, though I'd set up your Raspberry Pi to use OpenELEC and stream films/tv/music from the internet and your Microserver.

Then for the Microserver the typical thing to do is OwnCloud/NAS for the RPI to stream from and general backup. Web/software development servers with Apache/MySQL/git or some similar setup. Perhaps something like Amahi/Zentyal to run your network. You could leave it downloading torrents, games, whatever else interests you. It could be a TeamSpeak or game server for Minecraft, Counter Strike or whatever.

That's basically what I am/will be doing with mine. Apart from the fact I've also got it set up as a HTPC with a HD6450. It will play back from itself but also stream the movies etc to a RPI in the other room.
 
Has anyone been able to present 3TB hard drives as RDM's to a ESXi VM on a Microserver?

it seems regardless of which software I use (Freenas, nas4free, etc, I get "Invalid Block Size" errors.
 
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