HPE Proliant Servers

    Quote from Spy Alelo

    I was reading through your post, and honestly although I see some SMART issues this should not have any effect on the disk itself. My only advise is to try and zero out at least the first few hundred megabytes across the disk, and try formatting it again on EXT4 using the web GUI. I've seen my own share of odd behaviors when there was data already present on the drive.

    I will try but these HDD are brand new, with no data on it.
    In the mean time, this morning I started the NAS, it was shut down for a few days, didn'd had time for it, and in stead of booting, OMV just showed me this message:



    What should I do. The SD card I use is a 16 GB SanDisk extreme brand new so it should be reliable.
    Thanks,
    Ionut

    The problem with the two HHD was that they were not spinning at all.
    Probably they were broke by the shipper during transport, I gave them back to be replaced.
    I will move the GRUB issue on another tread.
    Ionut

    i had this bug above, and it has been fixed by entering in bios, and use masked menu on HP bios.
    This bug is displayed when we use more than 4 HDDs, if i remember, on our HP proliant. Mine is a Gen8.

    Better late than never. I finally succumbed to the UK cashback offer and bought a HP Microserver Gen8 1610T 4GB at a price which is about the same as a low end 2-bay Synology DS216J. OK, the running cost will be higher but the fiddle factor is magnitudes better on the microserver.


    I have some questions which Spy Alelo, or others, might clear up for me.


    • If OMV is installed, what power management is best. Should I use "OS Control Mode" or HP's "Dynamic Power Saving"?
    • Thinking of upgrading the CPU to either a i3-3220T or i5-3470T/i5-2390T. But is ECC really active when using these CPUs? I con only find contradictory info on the web about this. Booting with and the presence of ECC may not be the same as proper functioning ECC system.
    • Does the "IPL floppy drive a:" boot option have any meaning for the Gen8, other than for use with virtual floppy images when using ILO?


    So far I'm working through OMV 3 in virtualbox looking at how best to use it.


    Thanks,
    Chris.

    • Official Post

    1 - There is no right answer to this one. If you use less energy, performance will be lower. Try them both. Use whichever uses the least amount of energy with performance that keeps you happy.


    2 - The chipset (intel C204) supports ECC and HP mentions using ECC in the manual. So, as long as HP doesn't disable ECC support (obviously not since they mention you can use ECC), ECC will work if the CPU supports it.


    3 - If you plug a usb drive into the machine, it might use that as well.