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

#Chri5# said:
After cashback, mine will be £240 (inc VAT) so a fair way from "over 300"
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I'm on about the retail value. With the last cashback offer you could get that server for 170 because the retail price was 220. Now after cashback you are getting it for more than the pre cashback price a few months ago.

I'm not belittling the purchase just pointing it out that they've upped the price by a lot in a couple months
 
Thank you, GDL. SPP downloaded and waiting to be burned to DL DVD.

<Later> Very little seems to be updated on the Gen8 - just the NIC & iLO firmware as far as I could see.
 
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From what I can see, the 2018 SPP is only for Gen9 and Gen10 servers, there is a Gen8 and Gen7 post production release that seem to be separate now.
 
Hey folks, just got a 2nd hand Gen8. Looking for a new CPU and ram for it but in the mean time is there any hints and tips to get it up and running? looking to put a SSD in the ODD slot and understand I need an adapter for the power, does the BIOS/ILO need any updates for it?
 
GDL said:
New HP SPP out.
P05006_001_spp-2018.03.0-SPP2018030.2018_0226.84
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Thank you.

Blinkz said:
Hey folks, just got a 2nd hand Gen8. Looking for a new CPU and ram for it but in the mean time is there any hints and tips to get it up and running? looking to put a SSD in the ODD slot and understand I need an adapter for the power, does the BIOS/ILO need any updates for it?
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Just use the SPP above. You may need to get a license for ILO.
 
Quartz said:
Just use the SPP above. You may need to get a license for ILO.
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Thanks, the previous owner said it has the full licensed ILO, not sure what the key is tho. Can I find it in the interface? With the above firmware will that let me have the new CPU and SSD in the floppy SATA?
 
The SPP will make zero difference as it's simply not needed for what you want. Just change the CPU and it will work (as long as it's suitable).
Using an SSD in the optical slot is more difficult and you'd be advised to read up on the requirements here.
You can check if there's a full iLO licence by following the procedure here. It won't show the full key but will confirm the licence status.
 
http://<IP-Of-Ilo>/xmldata?item=CpqKey

Will show the full Ilo key assigned to the device.

It's where HP field techs go if they change a mainboard out.


<PROLIANTKEY>
<KVER>1</KVER>
<LTYPE>FQL</LTYPE>
<LNAME>iLO 3 Advanced</LNAME>
<IDATE>Mon Dec 6 01:43:50 2010</IDATE>
<KEY>Heh....</KEY>
<SN>ILOCZ210803MZ</SN>
<SBSN>CZ210803MZ</SBSN>
</PROLIANTKEY>

Fixed, thanks @Quartz
 
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Random question... who's still running their N54L (Gen7 I guess?)... Mine's still ticking along nicely running as a basic fileserver and has been going for a long time now. Just wondering if I should be expecting to need to do anything to it to keep it going (thinking about the PSU... fans etc...)? From memory I already swapped out the stock fans following someone's guide in here from ages ago, but that was when I first got it...
 
Thanks for the info everyone, I've read the link above about having a SSD in the ODD port and the issues regarding having it as the bootable drive. Ideally I'd like to have them all setup as JBOD, is it possible to connect all 4 storage drives and the SSD on the B120i and just have them all setup as individual 1 disc raids? Wouldn't this then allow me to have the SSD as the bootable OS drive and the rest of the disks as individual drives? or am I missing something?
 
From memory (it's been a very long time) to be able to boot off the ODD bay (the additional SATA connection on the motherboard) you have to have the B120i configured in SATA mode (not RAID mode), which causes the fan to spin quite a bit faster, which is noticeably louder. My Gen8 fan is spinning at 6% right now (in RAID mode) which is exactly how I like it (quiet). I am booting ESXi off a USB stick plugged into the motherboard. The ODD bay has an SSD where the VMs live, and the 4 drive bays contain WD Reds that are presented as RDMs to the file server VM. In RAID mode you have to configure each drive as a single RAID 0 array, which is a tiny bit of faff, but once it's done, you don't have to touch it again.
 
I run Ubuntu Server on my Gen 8 and got around the ODD problem by having the /boot partition on a small USB stick on the internal USB port. That way I have all four main bays with SATA drives and a 60GB SSD in the ODD bay for the OS. I'm sure I saw a similar workaround for Windows.
 
Snapshot said:
Thanks, rotor. New BIOS installed nicely under WHS2011 but I'm still wondering how to instal it under NAS4Free......
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Unzip the executable and you can upload the biggest file inside via the ILO firmware upgrade page.
 
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