Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD
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Missed this thread... these two pull most of the weight at home now - I got them both in the last round of cashback offers, last September.
Both are N54L, 10GB RAM, 4x1TB Disk.
The left runs Hyper-V 2012R2 with 4 VM's on it. The right is a Microsoft DPM 2012R2 Server, hence the tape drive, also attached to the backup server, is a HP MSL2024 tape library.
Yo XL5, I asked in another thread but i'm not sure you've seen it, where did you get your server racks from, are they 12u?
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Looks like an HP rack to me, and was probably being chucked due to a huge virtualisation push.
Having a quick look back, I found his original purdy picture, and it's a 42U rack.
Having a quick look back, I found his original purdy picture, and it's a 42U rack.
Thanks for the insight, there's a 'post your rack' thread, in which he posted some pictures of 3 or so 12u racks, which I think look pretty cute, wouldn't mind getting a couple but they're pretty pricey ~£250 new...
Had a look on the 'bay & gumtree but they're all huge 25/42u racks which are a bit big for my place!
Nice, but tape is sooooo yesteryear
D2D to butt man......
You're right - at work that's what I do. But I have over 100 LTO2 tapes, and three LTO2 drives. Paying for cloud seems like a waste of money.
Yo XL5, I asked in another thread but i'm not sure you've seen it, where did you get your server racks from, are they 12u?
This one is a HP 10000 series 42U rack. Got on ebay for about £150.
I know this isnt the same but i had an NL36 an upgraded to an NL54
I imaged the 250gb disk then flashed that onto and SSD and kept my storage disks and array through drivebender and all, everyithing worked well.
Whs2011, i dont think it even knew
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Bios Upgrade
Hi
Ive tried to do the bios upgrade, but keeps coming up with Invalid system disk, yes I have the USB on priority 1 of the boot order.
ive looked at the following websites which goes through the procedure and these have been followed correctly.
I think it may be down to the usb key im using anyone else having the same issues
http://ntcn.net/blog/?p=7064
http://terfmop.co.uk/blog/2013/07/3...-guide-allow-hot-plug-sata-and-5th-sata-port/
http://homeservershow.com/hp-proliant-n40l-microserver-build-and-bios-modification-revisited.html
Mine is a N54L im assuming that the bios is the same for all the microserver range.
Many thanks
Hi
Ive tried to do the bios upgrade, but keeps coming up with Invalid system disk, yes I have the USB on priority 1 of the boot order.
ive looked at the following websites which goes through the procedure and these have been followed correctly.
I think it may be down to the usb key im using anyone else having the same issues
http://ntcn.net/blog/?p=7064
http://terfmop.co.uk/blog/2013/07/3...-guide-allow-hot-plug-sata-and-5th-sata-port/
http://homeservershow.com/hp-proliant-n40l-microserver-build-and-bios-modification-revisited.html
Mine is a N54L im assuming that the bios is the same for all the microserver range.
Many thanks
All of those links look a bit outdated. The latest version was made 01/12/2013 and can be found from post #10748 here.
The latest version of the official BIOS flash can be found at HPs website but requires an active warranty to download. The link to the download is http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/psi/swdHome/?lang=en&cc=us&sp4ts.oid=4310887
You then replace the official O41100113.ROM file as in the other instructions.
It should still work with the old one though I would've thought. It sounds like your USB is dodgy
Got another one to try with?
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I'm sure I had this same issue, and from memory it's one of 2 things:
1. You actually didn't quite put the files onto the USB in the right way (I can try to look up the details but it's similar to the difference between extracting the file you downloaded or not, or something like that)... You might actually be able to find a post by me in this thread where someone pointed this out to me if you search
2. I think the USB has to be formatted as a slightly non-standard filesystem (i.e. not FAT-32 or NTFS)
Sorry I can't be more helpful - if that doesn't give you a poke in the right direction let me know and I can look up the details again
Finally got my server setup in its permanent location today.
Went from (excuse the sorry looking cupboard, it got neglected when the room was last decorated).
To
1 SSD and 4 HDDs in the Server
5 HDDs in the DAS to the right
2 HDDs in the DAS to the left
Now just to decide what to put on the extra shelves.
Went from (excuse the sorry looking cupboard, it got neglected when the room was last decorated).
To
1 SSD and 4 HDDs in the Server
5 HDDs in the DAS to the right
2 HDDs in the DAS to the left
Now just to decide what to put on the extra shelves.
Duh! More Microservers!
The top two drives might get quite warm. Be careful.
That's the same link to the German site that has the link to the crappy file hosting site.
Annoyingly I had the bios mod last week as I updated one of my servers, but have since wiped the memory stick and deleted the files. I also need the bios mod again to flash my other server but can't download from that link
Does anyone have it handy?
That's the same link to the German site that has the link to the crappy file hosting site.
Annoyingly I had the bios mod last week as I updated one of my servers, but have since wiped the memory stick and deleted the files. I also need the bios mod again to flash my other server but can't download from that link
Does anyone have it handy?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0kglfln65a9i40/O41100113.ROM
There you go.