Opinions on HP ProLiant ML115 G5

RomeoS said:
The Dual Core versions I have use roughly 90Watts idle and 120ish under load. A quick google shows the Quad Core version to idle around 88-99Watts and load upto 140 although the author mentioned that he wasn't sure of the load levels when he took the readings.

http://www.techhead.co.uk/installing-vmware-esx-and-esxi-35-on-an-hp-proliant-ml115-g5-quad-core
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Fantastic, thanks. Based on the cost, and them using almost the same amount of power as my current file server, it seems like a great buy. Just got to decide which one :p
 
Tuvoc said:
The logical place.
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Aye found it, wasn't listed when I ordered a few months ago. Amazing how much prices have dropped.

Swanster, its getting more difficult to find the dual core version of the 115 G5 but I would snap up one of the quad cores, even if its a tiny bit overkill for a file server.
 
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Well I received my ML110 G5 server & promptly moved the esxi usb key, 8gb of 5400 ocz ram and seagate disk over from the old whitebox server into this one & everything worked great :)


However....

I wanted to also use disk that came with it for additional storage, a 250gb seagte ES.2 drive (Nice bonus to get an ES disk, or so I thought)with hpg6 firmware.
This runs like an absolute dog. With just one virtual machine on this disk its soooo slow. Running nbench on the virtual machine resulted in:-
write 2 MBps
read 35 MBps
With more than one vm running on this disk both read & write plummet even further with read now in sigle digits.

I have just copied it over to another normal 7200.10 (the same as is in there already) and with the same one machine it gives:-
write 42 MBps
read 47 MBps

Even running nbench on the existing 7200.10, that currently has 9 virtual machines running, gives approx 35 MBps read & write.

Anyone else have performance issues with the ES disk :confused:
 
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The standard io on these things is below that of an ml115 for some reason or another, I think I mentioned this above somewhere. Im not 100% sure why HP felt the need for the 110 and 115 when they are in the same price bracket, perhaps just an intel & AMD option. I dunno.
 
brendy said:
Im not 100% sure why HP felt the need for the 110 and 115 when they are in the same price bracket, perhaps just an intel & AMD option. I dunno.
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They like to offer a version of boxes with each manf cpu in it where possible and reasonable to do so.
 
aye for any good market there will be a 0 (intel) and 5 (amd) option, IBM like to do this aswell


so is this 115 quad opteron pretty handy for light vmware use? i ask cos i can source it a lot cheaper than a lot of the 110 G5s
 
The ES2 in my ML115 is super quick. I've been dead impressed with it, and even splashed out on a second one. Here's a quick benchmark on the single disk.

/sbin/hdparm -t /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 200MB in 1.97 seconds = 101.72MB/sec
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Still waiting for my new USB key to turn up so I can test out ESXi on it. I've been playing with OpenSolaris 08.11 recently in a Virtualbox machine and that's awesome, so might put that on it.
 
RomeoS said:
Swanster, its getting more difficult to find the dual core version of the 115 G5 but I would snap up one of the quad cores, even if its a tiny bit overkill for a file server.
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Thanks, ending up getting one of the quad cores. I was planning to use it for CCTV as well (my old file server struggled), so not a total over kill, and to run an XP virtual machine (I use Linux).
I've added 4GB of the ocz ram from ocuk (ordered Friday afternoon, arrived this morning - which I thought was rather good for free delivery), 2 extra HDDs, and found it idles at around 105W (for anyone running Linux on it - loading the powernow stuff reduces power consumption by ~10w when idle).

I've also found that the one PCI slot it has is the 3.3v variety, so my old PCI 4ch CCTV capture doesn't fit :(
 
Can XP be installed on this?

Ideally in the config of :


AMD Opteron™ 1352 Quad Core Processor 2.10 GHz
2 x 2GB Crucial ECC RAM
1 x 250GB (Standard kit)
2 x 500GB (Samsung F1's)

I am looking to use XP as I have a license for that and install XP to preinstalled drive.

I then want to raid 1 the two samsungs (any issue doing this in XP) for storing my data on.

I then will have an attached external drive which will take daily backups from the raid array and then to back that up I will upload to Mozy.

Does all that sound feasible?
 
Picked mine up today, running ESXi, 8GB of Corsair RAM and (for the moment) a single samsung 1TB disk. Works like a charm, ESXi sees all the hardware no problems (using the USB stick boot that is), it even was able to accomodate my PCI/PCI-X dual port NIC well, sort of - its backside is hanging out of the PCI slot :).

Great little box, especially since i was considering spending almost the same amount of money just to buy a CPU (Q6600) to build my own white-box.
 
doh missed the boat it seems, was gonna pick one up for 160 odd, checked yesterday and they are back at HP retail rates, dang
 
Just ordered one for ESXi testing - prices are up to £199 but a quad core with 8GB (Kingston EEC) for £300 is staggering.
 
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