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

PiKe said:
Could anyone tell me what idle power consumption is please?
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Ah, I did check this the other day, with 4 hard hard drives in ( 2 x 2 RAID 1) I was pulling around 50w ~ when transferring data to one set of drives :)

Cant remember fully idle.
 
tbz_ck said:
Ok

Doing a throughput test over a gig network to the ESXi hosted WHSv1 server I get about 35Mbyte/s (that works out roughly at 280Mbit/s)

Doing a disk throughput check on the local WHS server I get about 70 Mbyte/s on the local system drive (C drive). On the D drive which is where the backups are written to and where drive pooling takes place I get about 56Mbytes/s. I have set up an ESXi datastore of 1TB and a Vdisk in it of maximum capacity (works out at 931MB) as backup space. It is therefore using only 1 disk at the moment in it's drive pool. I'll add more space virtual disk space in due course which may affect the results.


Checked using a piece of software called "Parkdale"
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Can you try using iperf/jperf? This will test the network performance.
This is something i'm interested it, was planning to go ESXi with mine but if the network performance is tanked I won't bother.
 
Have got my Microserver running with FreeNAS but think it may be overkill for me. Ideally I wanted to run Windows Server 2008 R2 off a pen drive but couldn't get it working properly so may end up selling it and sticking with my NAS. Anyone want to try convincing me to keep it? Lol
 
Al Vallario said:
Absolutely, streaming media from networked devices is ostensibly the main purpose of the WD TV Live. If you have a switch (or a router with one built-in), simply connect both the WD TV Live and the MicroServer to your network; you'll be able to share media between the two as well as utilise the Internet functionality of the former.

As stated, the MicroServer isn't designed to be a media centre solution per se; it's certainly not designed for media playback (no built-in audio output, no graphics card or any significant GPU acceleration for video playback). There's nothing stopping you putting a tuner in via PCI-E or USB, but given the audio/video limitations I'm not sure how you would control recordings exactly. Also, someone else who has tried something like this might be able to advise you more accurately, but I believe the CPU might be a limiting factor for Freeview recording.

The MicroServer is great at what it does, and with the cashback offer represents phenomenal value for money — I have mine running FreeBSD with a ZFS storage array, SABnzbd+/sickbeard for automated newsgroup downloads and streaming content to my TV via DLNA, couldn't be happier — but it sounds to me as if you're looking for more of a HTPC solution :)
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Al Vallario,

This is exactly how I would like to set one of these up.

Can you point me in the direction of some info on setting up a ZFS Storage Array?

Also, how many disks are you running?

Have you thought about CouchPotato as well?

Regards,

Simpic
 
Zarf said:
Can you try using iperf/jperf? This will test the network performance.
This is something i'm interested it, was planning to go ESXi with mine but if the network performance is tanked I won't bother.
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You got a particular test config you want me to run since I'm not familiar with Jperf settings.
 
macfanuk said:
Have got my Microserver running with FreeNAS but think it may be overkill for me. Ideally I wanted to run Windows Server 2008 R2 off a pen drive but couldn't get it working properly so may end up selling it and sticking with my NAS. Anyone want to try convincing me to keep it? Lol
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I'm curious, what were you trying to achieve by running Windows 2008 off a pen drive??
 
forgot to mention i have 4 x standard sata harddrives and a standard sata dvdrom drive will i get everything i need in order to connect these?? if not what do i need to buy? cheers
 
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