Opinions on HP ProLiant ML115 G5

Anyone had any issues with the NVidia RAID control panel?

It keeps reporting my RAID 0 is about to fail where none of the SMART tests I've ran or the manufactures drive test picked up any errors?

:confused:
 
I installed ESXi 3.5 Update 3 using the USB method and got some VM's up and running. Now that 3.5 Update 4 is out, how have people upgraded?
 
Dangerous said:
Anyone had any issues with the NVidia RAID control panel?

It keeps reporting my RAID 0 is about to fail where none of the SMART tests I've ran or the manufactures drive test picked up any errors?

:confused:
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yep had al sorts of issues with the shonky onboard raid.

i bought an adaptec card in the end from an auction site.

Was dell branded and cheap and supports 6 devices. not had issues since.
 
Also for anyone using ESXi and the onboard NIC, it will not work using DHCP but give it a static ip and you can conect to it fine using the infrastructure client.
 
Opteron 1222 or overclocked alternative

I want an Opteron 1222 for an ML 115, because my DVB-T card requires a dual core 3GHz processor, according to the manufacturer, in order to process H264 DVB-T (Freeview HDTV, when it starts within the next year).
I've got the H264 software running for the card, in a dual core desktop that will not upgrade to 3GHz, but no terrestrial HDTV signal yet.

I don't think that DVB-T manufacturers are going to provide software for more than dual core processors for their 'legacy' DVB-T cards, when they will likely start to make DVB-T cards with H264 hardware processing.

Processing MUX streams is not quite as simple as the OS sharing processing over four cores of the fitted Opteron 1352. And because specifications are always improving, there cannot have been many spare Opteron 1222s made. My thought is get one while I can, before they become scarce.

Because AMDs overclock and because I've got 8GB of OCX Titanium memory that will readily overclock as well, the Opteron 1222 might not be the only option. I've seen at least one report of a 1.8GHz Opteron 1210 overclocked to 3GHz. I'm not running a numeric database that needs to be fault free, just processing video and TV, with any server backup files verified rather than needing real time ECC standards. So there are probably lots of AM2 AM2+ and AM3 processors that could serve as alternatives.

Has anyone done this, put a replacement 3GHz MPU in an ML110/115; experiences , advice and information about any bargain prices please.
 
oldgrumpyman said:
I want an Opteron 1222 for an ML 115, because my DVB-T card requires a dual core 3GHz processor, according to the manufacturer, in order to process H264 DVB-T (Freeview HDTV, when it starts within the next year).
I've got the H264 software running for the card, in a dual core desktop that will not upgrade to 3GHz, but no terrestrial HDTV signal yet.

I don't think that DVB-T manufacturers are going to provide software for more than dual core processors for their 'legacy' DVB-T cards, when they will likely start to make DVB-T cards with H264 hardware processing.

Processing MUX streams is not quite as simple as the OS sharing processing over four cores of the fitted Opteron 1352. And because specifications are always improving, there cannot have been many spare Opteron 1222s made. My thought is get one while I can, before they become scarce.

Because AMDs overclock and because I've got 8GB of OCX Titanium memory that will readily overclock as well, the Opteron 1222 might not be the only option. I've seen at least one report of a 1.8GHz Opteron 1210 overclocked to 3GHz. I'm not running a numeric database that needs to be fault free, just processing video and TV, with any server backup files verified rather than needing real time ECC standards. So there are probably lots of AM2 AM2+ and AM3 processors that could serve as alternatives.

Has anyone done this, put a replacement 3GHz MPU in an ML110/115; experiences , advice and information about any bargain prices please.
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There is no overclocking features in the ML115s BIOS
 
Overclocking ML 110/115

Zaf said:
There is no overclocking features in the ML115s BIOS
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Thanks for quick reply.
Another question, is there any BIOS overclocking in ML 110?

I will get my ML 115 delivered today, and until I have the motherboard version number, and can see what chips are actually fitted, I haven't tried serious searching about overclocking these Proliants, to find out what is possible.

Absent BIOS adjustments, I was thinking in terms of either an OS tuning program similar to AMD Overdrive, or adding in a motherboard pot to vary the voltages (I'm old, and actually did that long ago).

Seemed like a forum designated "Overclockers" would be a good place to ask.

Absent anyone having done any ML 115/110 overclocking, there is probably a magazine article somewhere that I have not seen that someone might recall?
 
oldgrumpyman said:
Thanks for quick reply.
Another question, is there any BIOS overclocking in ML 110?

I will get my ML 115 delivered today, and until I have the motherboard version number, and can see what chips are actually fitted, I haven't tried serious searching about overclocking these Proliants, to find out what is possible.

Absent BIOS adjustments, I was thinking in terms of either an OS tuning program similar to AMD Overdrive, or adding in a motherboard pot to vary the voltages (I'm old, and actually did that long ago).

Seemed like a forum designated "Overclockers" would be a good place to ask.

Absent anyone having done any ML 115/110 overclocking, there is probably a magazine article somewhere that I have not seen that someone might recall?
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Morning mate I can tell you that the ML110 does not support any type of overclocking feature at all and they have the Direct I/O (VT-d) turned off as well so if you are useing EXSi 4 the PCI/USB/Serial throughput virtulisation wont work either.

The motherboard is made by HP/Compaq based around an Intel refrence board with the 3200 chipset if that helps any for the ML110
 
Zaf said:
Morning mate I can tell you that the ML110 does not support any type of overclocking feature at all and they have the Direct I/O (VT-d) turned off as well so if you are useing EXSi 4 the PCI/USB/Serial throughput virtulisation wont work either.

The motherboard is made by HP/Compaq based around an Intel refrence board with the 3200 chipset if that helps any for the ML110
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Thanks again.

There is a service manual for the ML 115 - and the relevant motherboard chip is specified. So with reference to NVidia web pages, there is software analogous to AMD's.

Service manual for ML 115 includes NVIDIA NFP3400 chip. Chip here:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce_pro_server.html

Includes "NVIDIA Control Panel" software
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_mcp_software.html

Particular tool I appear to need is "The NVIDIA® Control Panel"
http://www.nvidia.com/object/performance_group.html

These tools give a some confidence to buying a multi GPU graphics card too.
With improvement in US dollar to UK pound rate, I should be able to get a 96 core Geoforce 9600 for about fifty pounds in the near future.

Better wait and see what's delivered before I get too excited.
 
Hiya, according to the specs on HP's website the ML110 G5 supports up to 3TB of storage (4x 750GB drives) does anyone know if they say that because there is a hardware limitation either preventing the use of >=1TB drives or preventing more than 3TB of storage being recognnised? or do they just say that because they only offer drives up to 750GB as options for the unit?

Im planning on buying a pair of 1TB drives for my ML110 and running them in a mirror via the onboard raid and want to make sure I can before I buy em (currantly have 2x500GB drives in mirror)
 
HP's site says that it supports 4 x 500GB = 2TB as a max. Is this a hard limit as I am running a 1TB, 2 x 500GB and a 400GB without issue. Just want to know if in the future i can go for 4 x 2TB = 8TB
 
I expect it's just all they'd tested it with at the time the page was written. No reason it shouldn't work with more.

I'm using a 1.5Tb drive without any problems.
 
PeterNem said:
I expect it's just all they'd tested it with at the time the page was written. No reason it shouldn't work with more.

I'm using a 1.5Tb drive without any problems.
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I tried using 2x 1.5TB Seagates in mine. Could not get windows to install on this...
 
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