Opinions on HP ProLiant ML115 G5

fishfishfish · 3 Feb 2009 at 19:51

I would like to try out OpenSolaris and run RAID-Z, but the Nvidia chip set won't allow an install, even though this was supposed to have been sorted. Anybody got OpenSolaris/ZFS running on it?

I have OpenSolaris on mine at that moment with two 1.5TB Seagates and 8GB of OCZ. I turned off the raid settings in the BIOS and set them to (if I recall correctly) SATA. Then installed OpenSolaris and made a zpool.

Sootie · 3 Feb 2009 at 21:33

fishfishfish said:
I have OpenSolaris on mine at that moment with two 1.5TB Seagates and 8GB of OCZ. I turned off the raid settings in the BIOS and set them to (if I recall correctly) SATA. Then installed OpenSolaris and made a zpool.

OK, thats good to know. I'll have another go at some stage. Thanks for the info

morfmedia · 7 Feb 2009 at 15:13

What sort of price are these going for now or are there any better alternatives? Need to get some more time in with ESX / Exchange / lots of other stuff. Ta

MivkM · 7 Feb 2009 at 16:27

Cheapest i can see are now £300 + i think.

Really need to get ESX installed on mine soon

Zaf · 10 Feb 2009 at 00:21

morfmedia said:
What sort of price are these going for now or are there any better alternatives? Need to get some more time in with ESX / Exchange / lots of other stuff. Ta

HP ProLiant ML115 G5 - Third-Generation Quad-Core Opteron = inc.vat : £287.47

HP ProLiant ML110 G5 - Dual-Core Xeon = inc.vat : £287.47

madman045 · 10 Feb 2009 at 14:33

Does anyone know if the ML110 G5 can be upgraded to a quad and which quad it supports?

#Chri5# · 10 Feb 2009 at 15:06

Yes, the ML110 G5 can support some Xeon quad cores. See:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12867_div/12867_div.HTML

bbasra · 11 Feb 2009 at 20:14

morfmedia said:
What sort of price are these going for now or are there any better alternatives? Need to get some more time in with ESX / Exchange / lots of other stuff. Ta

There's a big difference between installing ESXi and ESX. I've managed to get ESXi installed using the USB method. Doing a VMware Infrastructure Course, ESX is much more powerful as it has the Service console. There's a lot of extra functionality and customisation ESX offers over ESXi and wanting to use Virtual Centre too, ESX is better paired with it.

And i cannot get ESX update 3 to install on my ML115 G5 even using some of the scripts on vmware forums.

VeNT · 3 Mar 2009 at 15:22

ow, prices have hiked!
never mind, I got made redundant from that job where they wouldn't buy a server!

sportq · 5 Mar 2009 at 16:57

#Chri5# said:
Yes, the ML110 G5 can support some Xeon quad cores. See:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12867_div/12867_div.HTML

Looks like a few retailers have cut the price on the ML110 G5 (the ML115 G5 prices remains the same). Check the usual suspects, they're selling for just under £200 including VAT.

Pity the lights-out management card promo is not on or I'd jump at another.

Peter

bbasra · 7 Mar 2009 at 13:53

Hi,

I now wish i hadn't returned one of the two ML115 G5 i bought for £155 from insight. Oh Well!!!!

I finally managed to get Vmware ESXi update 3 installed using the USB Stick Method but have also installed Vmware VI 2.5 in a VM on the ESXi Host to managed to Host, create Templates and setup Alerts and Alarms.

Now that Citrix XenServer 5.0 is free, anyone tried this out on the ML115 G5 and how does it compare to Vmware ESXi in creating VMs, templates, Alerts etc.

B47 · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:18

Just found one at a decent price

-------ORDER DETAILS------
Order Item 1 , MPN : 480570-035 , Description : ProLiant ML115 G5 Special Tower
Server , Quantity : 1 , Unit Cost : 149.54 , Tax Rate : 15% , Usually ships:
Call Us

Total delivery is 8.95
Total tax is 23.77
The total order value is 182.26

Prices above are displayed in British Pounds

The total order value in the base currency British Pounds is 182.26

fingers crossed :cool:

Tuvoc · 8 Mar 2009 at 23:12

Good find !

J1nxy · 9 Mar 2009 at 12:24

bbasra said:
Hi,

I now wish i hadn't returned one of the two ML115 G5 i bought for £155 from insight. Oh Well!!!!

I finally managed to get Vmware ESXi update 3 installed using the USB Stick Method but have also installed Vmware VI 2.5 in a VM on the ESXi Host to managed to Host, create Templates and setup Alerts and Alarms.

Now that Citrix XenServer 5.0 is free, anyone tried this out on the ML115 G5 and how does it compare to Vmware ESXi in creating VMs, templates, Alerts etc.

Works fine or at least it did for me, also true the new version of Virtual Iron.

madman045 · 9 Mar 2009 at 12:29

Just about to buy a ML110 G5 for £197 + Delivery, plenty about again it seems

Tuvoc · 9 Mar 2009 at 12:36

madman045 said:
Just about to buy a ML110 G5 for £197 + Delivery, plenty about again it seems

That's dual core not quad core ?

sportq · 9 Mar 2009 at 13:49

Tuvoc said:
That's dual core not quad core ?

The quad core Intel ML110 G5 seemed to be only available as a 'build-to-order' option so I don't think we'll ever see it offered with a big discount.

The quad core Opteron ML115 G5 is a standard config as is the dual core model, so distributors are presumably being offered incentives (from time to time) to shift inventory of these by HP.

Peter

Tuvoc · 9 Mar 2009 at 15:27

sportq said:
The quad core Opteron ML115 G5 is a standard config as is the dual core model, so distributors are presumably being offered incentives (from time to time) to shift inventory of these by HP.

Peter

Thanks - presumably then they shifted a large enough volume, because the prices went back up

brendy · 9 Mar 2009 at 15:49

Rising costs in logistics and manufacture have pushed them up as well as the weak pound, Id never have thought it would have went from as low as 99 quid to 350 with another £50 rise threatening.

dangerstat · 9 Mar 2009 at 19:07

I've been eying up one of these, can't find anywhere cheaper than £180 for the Dual core 115 Xeon, and over £350 for the quad core Opteron.

Will keep looking for a good deal, so annoying we can't post links!