Monster 1U Server

I picked one of these up to have as a spare server in case my current one gets destroyed.

I don't have it yet so I can't comment further.

When it gets here all I am going to do is see if it will boot OMV from USB and verify that all fourteen drive ports work.

The price is right and the seller has a few different RAM size configurations available.

I bought the 8GB RAM one for $162.00US with free shipping, but they are all gone. Here is the link to the 16GB unit:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/13320…c9b8ab:g:4GsAAOSwRtNgvvvN

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/~eQAAOSwYGtgv-sM/s-l1600.jpg

I saw it first on Tech by Matt:

This unit arrived today. It looks unused, I couldn't find a spec of dust in it anywhere. Runs OMV fine

Only problem so far is the SOL console redirection doesn't work. And I have been unable to find anyone who has it working. It appears to be an outdated Java problem. Getting that working is kind of important.

Flashing the onboard SAS controller to IT mode is also on the todo list.

Stress testing it with stress-ng is fun - you can hear the fans speeding up and slowing down as the load changes.

More as I get into it deeper, but so far a great deal for $162.00 for the 8GB unit.

My AsrockRack C2550D4I board is six years old and this function still works. The firmware for it is dated 2017.

The firmware for this board is dated 2014. I did try to get it working with an ancient Firefox portable v12, but no joy.

Thanks for the VM suggestion. I might try it.

Tried both Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 in VMs but they are not updateable and I can't install the Java Runtime and browser plugin.

Any other ideas?

Can you give me the line in your sources list? Thanks

Thanks, but I can't get anywhere. I have jre 6 and 7 installed in Ubuntu 14 but Firefox and Iced Tea will not open the jviewer.jnlp file coming off the server.

Actually, for some it is too deep - 32 .5 inches. I'm gonna wall mount it

It holds twelve 3.5 inch drives plus one 2.5 inch drive. The MB has 14 drive ports plus two internal on board USBs.

I flashed the onboard SAS controller from IR mode to IT mode.

I wish I could get the SOL console working. I'm not going to spend a ton of money on a remote IPMI box for it.

Yes, I tried IE 11 on my ancient Windows 7 box that is never used anymore. Throws an error there too.

Thanks to all for their efforts.

I have given up on trying to get the Java stuff working. But I am making progress on this from another direction.

I run this in a shell on another machine on the LAN and I when I start the OMV machine I get the startup screen and can get into the SAS BIOS and System BIOS !!!!!! The IP is for the IPMI port.

ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.208 -U user -P password sol activate

Then I followed the steps in this post (I did this in the past on m my other OMV box and had no trouble with it):

OMV serial console access [putty | GNU screen ]

I get the grub menu as expected and can choose which kernel to boot, and I get additional output as far as "loading initial ramdisk" and then no more. Not sure where it is going wrong. OMV does fully boot up though. I just have no output in the ipmi session.

EDIT: Solved see below.