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

Uhtred said:
RDMs and freenas 9.x
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I had RDM working perfectly with 8.3.2 and it wouldn't import the pool when upgrading to 9.1.0 no matter what I tried. It could see the disks but that was it (Not on a Microserver)

waso_dude also found the same happening.

This bug report on the freenas bug tracker also shows the same issues

https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/3197

From what I can tell it's something in the kernel for FreeBSD 9.x.
 
Frozennova said:
When the array is created the software raid platform writes data metadata to the drives.
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Ah okay thanks, I figured as much

waso_dude said:
These boxes are amazing. Well impressed with mine., I couldn't get to grips with Freenas. If you know linux, you will get annoyed with it to quickly like I did and soon I just installed what I needed and admin it thought SSH, and web interfaces.
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Hmm I'm definitely thinking about following a similar process to this... I'm very familiar with Linux as a user (use it everyday at work) but still have a little to learn about actual setting up and configuring everything

Any particular reason you went for CentOS?
 
Frozennova said:
I had RDM working perfectly with 8.3.2 and it wouldn't import the pool when upgrading to 9.1.0 no matter what I tried. It could see the disks but that was it (Not on a Microserver)

waso_dude also found the same happening.

This bug report on the freenas bug tracker also shows the same issues

https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/3197

From what I can tell it's something in the kernel for FreeBSD 9.x.
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how odd, it was working perfectly for me until last week when I rebuilt to a physical install.

I started on 8.x, upgraded to almost every 9.x.x release and regularly patched esxi too. That was with 3x2tb disks in raidz1 using RDMs. At no point did I have any issues :confused:
 
Very very odd indeed. It's was the final straw that made me ditch freenas.

There's nothing I can possibly think of that would have caused issues for me. I actually had a vm with version 8 and 9 installed and I could import my old pool or create a new one with a couple of spare drives yet with 9 it wouldn't let me do anything.
 
uncle_rufus said:
Hmm I'm definitely thinking about following a similar process to this... I'm very familiar with Linux as a user (use it everyday at work) but still have a little to learn about actual setting up and configuring everything

Any particular reason you went for CentOS?
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I went Centos, as my day Job I'm a Redhat Admin, so Centos being the free version, And I wanted to expand my knowledge on RH7 and Centos 7 being the same but free.

Any OS you prefer will be fine.

I am running minimal install just terminal only no gui at all.
 
waso_dude said:
I went Centos, as my day Job I'm a Redhat Admin, so Centos being the free version, And I wanted to expand my knowledge on RH7 and Centos 7 being the same but free.
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Ah that's interesting, Redhat is what I use at work so could be a good choice... though actually since I don't handle much of the Admin/configuration stuff I expect as you say it may not be any more familiar than any other OS

waso_dude said:
I am running minimal install just terminal only no gui at all.
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Sounds fine to me, the only programs I normally use are terminal + emacs - it'd be nice if I could at least X11 forward emacs to my laptop, is that possible with a headless install?

Also I had a look on distrowatch at the CentOS pacakage list - it doesn't say anything about ZFS, was it difficult to set up?
 
uncle_rufus said:
Ah that's interesting, Redhat is what I use at work so could be a good choice... though actually since I don't handle much of the Admin/configuration stuff I expect as you say it may not be any more familiar than any other OS



Sounds fine to me, the only programs I normally use are terminal + emacs - it'd be nice if I could at least X11 forward emacs to my laptop, is that possible with a headless install?

Also I had a look on distrowatch at the CentOS pacakage list - it doesn't say anything about ZFS, was it difficult to set up?
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You'd need some gnome for the gnome x11 programs but just install x11 support
 
Frozennova said:
Very very odd indeed. It's was the final straw that made me ditch freenas.
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I found the whole approach of Freenas to be really unintuitive, even simple tasks took a lot of steps, and I couldn't help but feel that a few wizards or Express options would go a long way for the majority of users. I'm taking a bit of a subjective view that most people who want to REALLY tinker would go for a straight Linux or Debian setup and build from that.
 
Makhaira said:
I found the whole approach of Freenas to be really unintuitive, even simple tasks took a lot of steps, and I couldn't help but feel that a few wizards or Express options would go a long way for the majority of users. I'm taking a bit of a subjective view that most people who want to REALLY tinker would go for a straight Linux or Debian setup and build from that.
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Its slowly getting there in that respect, the 7.x.x versions we're a lot less intuitive than 8.x/9.x

But as you say those with a bit of savvy like most people on this forum are going to go straight to linux as it offers everything and more, and if you aren't bothered by ZFS but want to use Linux Software RAID (MDADM) even someone who has never used linux can install a basic debian install and webmin to give them a GUI for configuring RAID arrays and and Network Shares
 
I have just installed WHS 2012 and I have been messing around with it today, I have tried to share one of my hard drives so that everyone on the network can access it and I thought I did it the correct way.

I have mapped the drive on my laptop for example, When I go into it I can't see any of the folders or files that are on the hard drive?
How can I get them to show up?

I just want to share the drive so all the files on it can be accessed at any time.

Thanks
 
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Biz.Kid09 said:
I have just installed WHS 2012 and I have been messing around with it today, I have tried to share one of my hard drives so that everyone on the network can access it and I thought I did it the correct way.

I have mapped the drive on my laptop for example, When I go into it I can't see any of the folders or files that are on the hard drive?
How can I get them to show up?

I just want to share the drive so all the files on it can be accessed at any time.

Thanks
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Not familiar with WHS but have you set the file/folder permissions to the Everyone and Guest accounts have read/write access
 
Frozennova said:
Not familiar with WHS but have you set the file/folder permissions to the Everyone and Guest accounts have read/write access
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Here are the screenshots of my permission settings;
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As far as I can see they are set correctly?

As I say, when I go on the mapped drive on another PC it just says "This folder is empty"

This hard drive I am trying to map is an external that is just plugged in via USB, on the hard drive is all my media etc that is split into folders. Just incase that matters.
 
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I have a few questions. It's probably been answered, but I don't really want to read through 100 odd pages.

Are these servers upto Plex transcoding?

Can I install standard SATA HDD's in them?

Any recommendations as to which OS to install? I just want to use it as a Plex server, so either a free OS or using a Windows 7 licence I already have.

Thanks in advance.
 
I use mine with Windows 7 and it can just about transcode one 1080p file at a time, but wouldn't recommend it for multiple transcodes.

I have no issues however streaming to multiple devices at the same time.
 
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