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

Yeah I'd read about isues with versions earlier than IP 1.6 with 2012R2, but as you can see I'm running higher than 1.6.

I'm installing via a ISO burnt to a DVD on a USB DVD drive.

I'll try a normal install with the drivers on a seperate USB drive, might also try deleting the RAID arrays, running in AHCI mode and see if IP can install like that, then it's definitely an issue with the array firmware/drivers.
 
Yep loads of non-Windows options; NAS4free, OpenMediaVault and UnRAID are other options. I've been running Ubuntu Server 14.04 on my 3 month old Gen8 with minimal issues. Stable and easy to maintain.
 
TallPaul_S said:
Server 2012 R2 installed along with an Xpenology VM in Hyper-V :)

The B120i firmware shows up now, just did a manual install without IP.
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Good to hear.

IP wasn't that impressive for me, so many of the preinstalled HP tools didn't work without fixing that I ended up rebuilding manually anyway.
 
seems like there are a few new purchases on the gen8 - care to give an opinion on what the noise is like? :) and what set up it's using - ahci/raid
 
I'm using RAID, got an SSD in bay 1 and a 3TB WD red in bay 2, 12GB of RAM. Fans sit at 6% all the time, and noise-wise (in a silent room with nothing else turned on) it's just a quiet "hum" - but that's with it an arms length away from me on the desk.

I think some people have managed to swap out the fan (that's where all the noise comes from) but it's not a standard fan connector.
 
Hi guys. Got a microserver on its way from the MM. What are my opions for OS - I'm a bit of a noob. From what I gather, Unraid, or NAS4FREE (only has 2GB of ram in there so I guess that rules out FREENAS)

Cheers all
 
I would go Xpenology. Got it in mine with 2gig ram and ram has never been above 20%.

Also only takes about 15 mins to install.

Of course if you want more RAM I have 16GB ECC on the MM :)
 
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FreeNAS will run fine on 2GB ram.

The difference between that and the recommend ram limits will be taking advantage of the ARC cache that ZFS offers,which tbh the typical NAS workload can't take as advantage of anyway.

I've ran my NAS VM (Debian w/ ZFS) with as little as 2GB RAM and there is no noticeable difference in performance other than in benchmarks compared to running it with 10GB
 
Thanks chaps. What would you say was the most simple OS for a newbie? I have had a dabble with nas4free before, and although I managed in the end to set up a drive pool, I did find it a little complicated.
 
I'm ordering a couple of wd reds for data storage, and will probably just settle for a normal hdd for the boot drive - is a blue/green ok to use for that? Thinking I will add ram and go for esxi + xpenology.
 
Amleto said:
what kind of raid do you use (B120i/shr/other)?
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B120i, RAID 0 single disk arrays. I've got my 500GB SSD on one RAID0 array as I'll be moving this to the ODD sata port once I get a power cable, the other drive is a 3TB WD Red, I'll probably be adding another 3TB drive once I've moved my files across.

I'm gonna be using a few VM's via Hyper-V so the SSD is for the OS and VHD storage and the mechanical disks for everthing else (moved my steam library across the other day, zero issues).

One of my VM's is Xpenology - it's a doddle to install and get shares working, it'll be serving media to 2x raspberry Pi's, and running Plex server for tablets etc. Only issue is you can't pass through HDD's with the standard CPU, need a Xeon for that.
 
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