HP ML110 G7 32GB RAM - Cashback

I was thinking ... what happen if I either disconnect the PCI cooling far or alternatively I tweak the speed manually with a Fan Speed controller?

I live in the north and the system already has two fans :o
 
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If you do some googling you will find that....

- Inserting PCI-e cards activates the PCI cooling fan, and makes the others run loudly.

- When the room or ambient temperature is over 24DecC, the fans go crazy and loud.

Lots of people have been complaining. If you have no add-in cards and your environment is under 24DegC, its quiet as a mouse.
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100% accurate in my experience. If the room is warm, the fans go ballistic and in my experience they don't slow down once they've ramped up. And adding a PCIe card is 100% guaranteed to make the fans increase in speed (and noise) significantly. This server is only whisper-quiet under very specific conditions (no cards and below 20-odd degrees). Hopefully HP will release a firmware update that will fix this, but they don't seem too fussed about it. Very disappointing, as I had high hopes for it as a home VMware lab machine.
 
Just brought one of the ML110 G7 servers with the G840 CPU, had to buy a Xeon E3-1220 CPU 80W and 4 x KTH-PL313E/8GB to take this to 32GB which it has done with no issues. Works out a lot more expensive with swapping the cpu and memory but with the £100 cash back at least it softens the blow a little :)

Thanks
 
100% accurate in my experience. If the room is warm, the fans go ballistic and in my experience they don't slow down once they've ramped up. And adding a PCIe card is 100% guaranteed to make the fans increase in speed (and noise) significantly. This server is only whisper-quiet under very specific conditions (no cards and below 20-odd degrees). Hopefully HP will release a firmware update that will fix this, but they don't seem too fussed about it. Very disappointing, as I had high hopes for it as a home VMware lab machine.
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Compared to the G6 of the same model these G7's are very loud but then they have 3 fans in them where as the G6 only had 2 fans. Only reason i am swapping is for the fact the G7's can take 32GB Memory.....
 
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zzzzac said:
Just brought one of the ML110 G7 servers with the G840 CPU, had to buy a Xeon E3-1220 CPU 80W and 4 x KTH-PL313E/8GB to take this to 32GB which it has done with no issues.
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I'm a bit surprised that you had to upgrade the CPU.

I'm running 2x8GB Crucial CT102472BD1339 in my Pentium G840 box without any problems. I don't have the means to test this at 32GB, but I wonder why it should make any problems?

The Xeon E3-1220 is a nice CPU though and I thought about upgrading it as well. I'm just not sure I'd use it properly.
 
Hey Guys

Had my ML110 G7 for a while now but really started getting my build under way now.

Going fairly ghetto

Originally wanted 5 x 4tb hard drives in a 16tb usable ZFS RaidZ arrany on Solaris.

Now considering 10 x 4tb in a 32tb usable RaidZ2 array.

4 in the standard 3.5 bays. Had hoped to use Nexus Doubletwin brackets to fit 4 3.5's in the 2 x ODD bays. Sadly these don't fit.

However I've discovered that 5 x 3.5 hard drives will fit in the 2 x ODD bays on their end (same orientation to standard bays) with suitable ventilation between each drive. It's fairly tight as is with little drive movement but was thinking coat the bottom and roof of the ODD in thin rubber to give traction. Maybe even electrical tape would do. Could also possibly drill holes in the bottom. If remove the entire 3.5 bay should be able to go through ventilation holes and drill new holes in the floor of the ODD bay.

Can then fit the remaining 10th 3.5 hard drive between the ODD bays and normal 3.5 bays. Needed to re-route the USB cable (which I wasn't fully happy about) to get it to fit nicely.

8 storage drives attach to an IBM M1015 (flashed to LSI 9211) in one of the PCIe X8 physical X4 electrical slots. Card requries a X8 electrical but I want to keep my X16 free for future storage expansion, like a LSI 9201 16e to connect to external storage arrays like Norcos. Or possibly (although unlikely) a graphics card. And I've been told the X4 will easily handly my 8 x 5400rpm Hitachi drives. Final 2 storage drives come off the 2 single onboard SATA ports.

Got a HP NC365T 4 port Gig NIC in the other X8/X4 and hoping to have a 4 port BlackGold or TBS 4 tuner Freeview HD card in the X4/X1.

For Solaris I was hoping to have mirrored 80gb 2.5 hard drive OS drives and mirrored 120gb Intel 320 SSD for the ZIL log device. The 120gb would be partitioned to only 40Gb or so to give it ample room.

My concern is the Intel 320 is the only consumer drive to have a capacitor power protection desired for a ZIL. But it also has this 8Gb bug where it destroys all your data and sets the drive to 8gb. It was meant to be fixed by an Intel firmware update but apparently although made better wasn't entirely fixed. Details are scarce but it may only affect Windows or devices that were cloned instead of fresh installs, or may truly be random.

Does anyone know or can theorise if this bug happens to my mirrored ZIL. Would the good drive mirror the bad?

Do I even need to mirror the ZIL now Solaris can detach ZILs in the latest ZFS implemetation?

Also if I use 1 SSD for my OS and 1 mechanical will this slow down my OS. I.e. I'd like to have my OS on a fast SSD but don't have the funds to backup to another SSD so was thinking I could mirror the SSD onto mechanical.

Finally does anyone know the specs of the onboard SD slot. There's a class 10 Sandisk 64Gb card cheap at the mo but there's no details on the manual or HP's website to say whether the slot is SDXC or not.

Was thinking could install ESXi to SD.

Is there any point?

Is class 10 quicker than the onboard USB?

Cheers for any help or comments.
 
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So I finally got around to installing the Kingston 16GB I bought. It all works fine. Just need to sign up to MS' Technet so I can get Windows Server on there and start studying! :D:o

I'll get another of the 8GB sticks sometime and see if bumping the RAM up to 24GB works. If it does, I'll get a 4th 8GB stick and run on 32GB. :)
 
Hi

Has anybody who has one of these tried running it at 1920x1080? When I use this resolution I'm getting a load of artefacts on the screen. Dropping to 1440x900 or below makes them disappear however it looks horrible as it's not my monitors native resolution.

It is within spec at that resolution but wondered if having ilo enabled caused issues or if I'm missing a bios setting or update to get it running at this resolution.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I really don't want to go through the faff of returning for repair/replacement.

Thanks

Kyle
 
Hi guys. its been a while since I've been on but would like to see if i can get a quick answer to my question.
If you remember, I purchased an ML110 a couple of months ago and to be honest, apart from initially setting it up i haven't really used it.
Ive started my degree through OU and will be doing server technologies around this time next year so it will definitely be used then but until then i was thinking about using something like tonido or own cloud.org to turn it into my own cloud server.

Question 1: Whats the ML110 like on electricity. Lets say i let it run for 12hrs a day. Anybody able to give me an approximate cash cost?

Question 2: Since getting the server, ive also purchased my first macbook and although i am able to use my desktop to connect to the server via remote desktop, can i do the same with the mac through macs remote desktop connection tool and is there away the ML110 can be powered on remotely as well being able to shut down

Look forward to your replies and help..Many thanks


Darren
 
EMM386 said:
Question 1: Whats the ML110 like on electricity. Lets say i let it run for 12hrs a day. Anybody able to give me an approximate cash cost?
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Mine idles at 30W (with 8GB RAM and a single Samsung 256GB SSD), which is £24 per year if it's on 24h a day.
 
Mine did provide some crappy results at 1080p when I was setting it up.

1)With 3 disks mines idles around 35W, maxed out it's around 90W.
2)You can use the built in iLo card to power the box on/off and get (limited) remote KVM access. As long as it's plugged into the mains, the iLo page will be accessible.
 
Well it didn't take me long but I've decided I'm going to buy one anyway as I've found a buyer for my Microserver.

Can anyone confirm passthrough works? Being able to plug USB devices or hard drives with existing data on are my main reason for upgrading.

Also can anyone recommend any ECC ram? Preferably 8GB.
 
Quick update for you.

Kingston KVR1333D3E9S/8G 8GB sticks have been validated as working in the ML110 G7. I strongly suspect that the others in this range will probably work;
KVR1066D3E7S/4G
KVR1333D3E9S/4G
KVR1333D3S8E9SK2/4G
KVR1333D3E9SK2/8G
KVR1333D3E9SK2/16G

These all work in the S1200BTL Intel board and I happened to have 32GB in mine so tried the 8GB sticks in the ML110 G7. Both boards are based on the same chipset so it makes sense.

RB
 
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