Opinions on HP ProLiant ML115 G5

B47 · 30 Mar 2009 at 20:53

fonzee said:
might be same place as mine, as it was 155 without delivery?

edit: just confirmed it was 155.77 so must be same place, however out of stock now

£174.98 delivered at one of the major online retailers

fonzee · 30 Mar 2009 at 21:01

B47 said:
£174.98 delivered at one of the major online retailers

mines already on its way, same price as yours :cool:

B47 · 30 Mar 2009 at 21:20

fonzee said:
mines already on its way, same price as yours

nice one, I've had a few tries, had 3 orders cancelled before now.

B47 · 30 Mar 2009 at 23:00

B47 said:
Finally got an Ml115g5 today £161.51 delivered

now running Vista x64 ultimate and 8gb of kingston ram, and a pcie hd2600 pro all in all very happy.

It was the 470065-018 model (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/e...1-241434-3328424-3328424-3683705-3919424.html), not as good as the earlier ones spec wise but no complaints here...

I can't get it online yet, need a driver for the Embedded NC105i PCI -Express Gigabit Server Adapter suitable for vista 64, any suggestions? thanks.

http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtreme_desktop.php

found the driver there :cool:

alle · 31 Mar 2009 at 17:50

...My Ml115g5 arrived today. Now has WHS installed. Could just do with some newer/larger drives in next

Seem to have all gone now!!

B47 · 31 Mar 2009 at 22:12

alle said:
...My Ml115g5 arrived today.

Seem to have all gone now!!

Not at all mate, I know of at least 3 places with stock the dearest being £175 delivered and cheapest £157 delivered

fonzee · 1 Apr 2009 at 00:08

mine arrived, along with 3 x 500gigashizzlejobbies (under 100 quid all in!) for RAID 5 and 4GB PC6400. up and fitted together, need to sort out ESXi tomorrow! hopefully have WHS and Ubuntu Server up and running for playing about with.

oh and it took me ages to find where the HP hard drive screws were located

bbasra · 1 Apr 2009 at 11:38

Guys, has anyone tried ESX\ESXi Update 4 on this? Does it work without the USB stick workaround?

If not, how do i install upgrade to update 4 when using the usb workaround.

B47 · 1 Apr 2009 at 11:55

Been told prices are going back up, If you want one / some be quick... there are good deals still to be found.

Zaf · 1 Apr 2009 at 13:03

bbasra said:
Guys, has anyone tried ESX\ESXi Update 4 on this? Does it work without the USB stick workaround?

If not, how do i install upgrade to update 4 when using the usb workaround.

Have you read through here
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vi3_esx35u4_rel_notes.html#installation

Going to try Update 4 tonight to see if the onboard raid for ML110 works

Wyrdo · 1 Apr 2009 at 14:51

£156.92 inc vat and delivery at the moment, been trying to decide wether or not to snag one for that price

fonzee · 1 Apr 2009 at 16:17

Wyrdo said:
£156.92 inc vat and delivery at the moment, been trying to decide wether or not to snag one for that price

do it.

Wyrdo · 1 Apr 2009 at 16:21

fonzee said:
do it.

I did

Seemed silly not to for that price, got some RAM to go in it but will have to wait before I fill it with disks which is what I wanted it for.

iaind · 1 Apr 2009 at 16:48

I cant find it at that price

fonzee · 1 Apr 2009 at 17:01

iaind said:
I cant find it at that price

google that excact price and 'ML115', first entry has the link.

alle · 1 Apr 2009 at 17:11

B47 said:
Not at all mate, I know of at least 3 places with stock the dearest being £175 delivered and cheapest £157 delivered

...They'd gone from the place where I bought mine. Although I paid 199.98.

Just checked and they now have them back in stock,154 of them, for 229.99

Zaf · 2 Apr 2009 at 00:03

Zaf said:
Have you read through here
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vi3_esx35u4_rel_notes.html#installation

Going to try Update 4 tonight to see if the onboard raid for ML110 works

Run down...

The onboard raid controller does not work as its ICH8R. ICH9 is only for the CDDrives

The onboard nic does work so you dont need to buy an extra Intel Nic anymore

morfmedia · 2 Apr 2009 at 20:19

Just ordered one for £162 inc CC fees + delivery etc. Will order some RAM and start tinkering shortly

elmo1982 · 4 Apr 2009 at 10:43

I was wondering if someone could help me? I am running through the process to create a ESXi usb boot pen for my new machine and when I am going through the DD for windows bit my machine is not identifying the usb pen (I think maybe since I am running vista) so can anyone tell me can you simply copy the image put onto a previous boot pen and if so could someone maybe post a link to the usb pen image I need? If not then I will hopefully be able to get access to an XP machine to do it but it will be next week.

If there is somewhere else I would be better posting this then please let me know and I will do that.

Thanks in advance

Orifice · 4 Apr 2009 at 11:15

elmo1982 said:
I was wondering if someone could help me? I am running through the process to create a ESXi usb boot pen for my new machine and when I am going through the DD for windows bit my machine is not identifying the usb pen (I think maybe since I am running vista) so can anyone tell me can you simply copy the image put onto a previous boot pen and if so could someone maybe post a link to the usb pen image I need? If not then I will hopefully be able to get access to an XP machine to do it but it will be next week.

If there is somewhere else I would be better posting this then please let me know and I will do that.

Thanks in advance

I had problems using DD, in the end found it was a lot easier using winimage. Just click the disk menu, and then restore image to disk. A lot less hassle than using DD.