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

easyrider said:
Does the 54L support jumbo frames on the onboard nic?
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Just checked my N54L running the default Windows Server 2012 R2 driver -- no jumbo frame setting. Would have to find someone that is using the HP driver to see if that setting is surfaced (assuming the NIC supports jumbo frames).

By the way, jumbo frames have to be supported on every single device in your network that is going to talk directly to, or provide a path to, that server. So every switch, wifi access point, and end device (PC, laptop, phone, tablet, printer).

Also, see this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_frame#Obsolescence
 
XpEnology

Hi

Im looking to do the XPEnology and esxi installation. as per guide from http://cyanlabs.co.uk/news/how-to-install-esxi-on-n54l-and-xpenology-on-esxi#comment-4108

However, within ESXI the onboard raid is not detected, im assuming that this will be the case within XPEnology. Is there anyway of raiding the hard drives together within these programs or configuring it to.

Yes as you have guessed, I did the modified bios to get the extra sata connections working.

Or is it a case of getting a good raid card installed, if so any good ones for the N54L out there that people recommend
 
ESXi does not need to see the RAID card, it just needs to see the storage. ESX will definitely see the storage once configured as that's how mine is set up.

Set up your raid through the BIOS before you start the install if you want to do it that way. Note that the modified BIOS will NOT let you use those extra ports in the RAID. RAID is limited to the main 4 drive slots.
 
Im currently running WHS2011, would i see any benefit from installing win 8.1? the machine is basically setup to store my media files (2*3tb raid 1) and i use it to run XBMC.

Ta
 
Tinders said:
Im currently running WHS2011, would i see any benefit from installing win 8.1? the machine is basically setup to store my media files (2*3tb raid 1) and i use it to run XBMC.

Ta
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No

Stick with WHS 2011... it's stable and works just fine... after running Win 8.1 on a 2nd Micro within ESXi ... I would rather shoot myself in the noggin than live install Win 8 on any production machine....

Just my thoughts
 
My HDD's arrived today. 3 x 2TB Seagates to add my already 1 so I can have a RAID 10 linux home/test lab :-)

Really looking forward to spinning it up now, nearly killing me in anticipation
(how sad)
 
I jut picked up an N40L from a fellow member and going to have a play tomorrow.

It will be used to feed Media files around the house to my devices (Windows, Smart TV and RPi) and FTP / Remote backup

Would I be better off with WHS 2011 or Freenas? If WHS, where is this available to download as my google skills seem to suck!
 
I did mean buy it, i'd rather buy / download though than order it and have to wait haha. I've been here long enough to know not to ask about illegal downloads :)
 
You could try FreeNAS in the meantime. You're not going to lose anytbing other than a iittle time. I've been very happy with it as a pure NAS.
 
Has anyone had any luck installing an OS (namely windows orientated) straight onto a disk bigger than 2TB?
I'm putting 4x2TB into a RAID10 through Ubuntu server but am using the optical slot for a 3TB WD Red as my (backup) but want to install Windows onto it so I have a remote desktop should I need it.
Anyone had any luck with something similar?

I understand the drive will need to be GPT but I have no idea further than that.
 
Got my N40L a year or so ago. Love it so much.

It currently has an older version of freenas on it which I have not touched in a while. But with a bank holiday this weekend I have a plan.

Copy all media off it
add a 3tb drive to the system
full OS reinstall then put all media back onto the server

I am using it mainly as a media server for pushing stuff to my xbox and tv. Going to add plex and possibly owncloud to it when i re-do it all.
 
crazyg1zm0 said:
It currently has an older version of freenas on it which I have not touched in a while. But with a bank holiday this weekend I have a plan.

Copy all media off it
add a 3tb drive to the system
full OS reinstall then put all media back onto the server
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I liked FreeNAS too but this is what annoyed me about it... The idea that to add a new drive *properly* (i.e. while protecting redundancy etc) and expand the storage I'd have to effectively start from scratch and find somewhere to copy the whole lot to in the mean-time...
 
The main reason I was doing the full rebuild as I am is just that I threw some old rubbish drives in for the start and this way instead of having 3 drives with some space will have 2 with 4tb.

But I have been looking into other options that will make it easier on adding more drives etc but so far nothing has seemed to allow me to do everything perfectly.

media server
automatic downloads
Clould storage
streaming content to my devices

FreeNas seems to do all of that easily enough for free which is nice
 
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