HP Proliant Gen 7 Servers - Selling foreign servers within the UK
Hello All,I have recently recieved servers from the US and have been asked to sell them within the UK. They have been purchased outright and are no longer required as they have been upgraded to Gen...
View ArticleRaid 5, one disk replaced and prompted to accept data loss?
Hi, Do I have any chance to prevent data loss in the following scenario? 1. I've started our old server after it has been switched off for a long time only to discover that it won't start any more.I...
View ArticleSL230 Gen8: network interfaces lost after BIOS update
Hello, We are aligning BIOS settings on our SL230 Gen8 servers. The first series has P75 (02/10/2014), the second series has P75 (08/02/2014). We have made a dump of a golden node in the first series...
View ArticleML350 G6 None HP Drives
Hi, I have installed and extra 2 x 500GB hard drives (None HP Branded) as extra drive capacity the OS is installed on HP branded drives. The fans on the chassis are running at full since installing the...
View ArticleMigrate RAID0 to RAID1 -ProLiant G8
This is a Dynamic Smart Array B120i. The SSA (Smart Storage Administrator) is ver 1.50.4.0 The OS was installed into a single hard disc (bay 1), the SSA reports like RAID 0. Then I add a new hard disc...
View ArticleML350G6 CPU upgrades
HI all, I've got an ML350G6 configured with an E5504 CPU, which was bought a couple years ago, running as a generic Linux server. As the box starts to show its age, I'm thinking about a CPU upgrade....
View ArticleHP Proliant Gen 7 Servers - Selling foreign servers within the UK
Hello All,I have recently recieved servers from the US and have been asked to sell them within the UK. They have been purchased outright and are no longer required as they have been upgraded to Gen...
View ArticleHP Proliant DL380 G6 buying additional drives for RAID 5
Hello, I have a HP Proliant DL380 G6 2x Xeon Quad-Core 2.53GHz 24GB RAM 2x 146GB 10K: and looking to buy more drives to build my home lab with ESXi. I don't have a lot of server experience. Is there...
View ArticleHP DL180 G6 Server Power ON predefined schedule in Bios
Hi, I want to Configure Power ON Schedule in bios as i need to auto ON my server hp DL180 G6 every morning at 7:00 AM because there is no need to run server for all night. i Schedule it auto shut down...
View ArticleDL360e Gen8: OS Installation Issue RHEL6.6 x86_64
Product:HP DL360e Gen8 E5-2450OS: RHEL6.6 x86_64HDD: 2x1TB HP Dynamic Smart Array B320i Controller is default activivated.From server startup, we can see hard disk deteched.HP SSA: Detects HDD If...
View ArticleProblems with DL380 Gen9 Smart Array
I've had a little trouble getting my DL380 Gen9 up and running..I ran the ProLiant SPP ISO to uprade firmwares but felt the system became less stable as a result, at one point the system got stuck on...
View Article"New" Proliant Storage Server 600 All-in-One Storage System AiO600 - AG536A:...
A client of mine discovered one of these things when they were cleaning out their IT inventory. I'm guessing this dates from somewhere between 2004 - 2006 or thereabouts. The OS in the box is MS...
View ArticleHow to upgrade iLO 3 firmware?
My iLO interface has been attacked and it is being used for malicious purposes. I need to upgrade the firmware. The iLO web interface allows me to upload a .bin file ("Obtain the firmware image (.bin)...
View ArticleDL380 gen9 with debian wheezy on board hangs while rebooting
Hello,I've just bought a new DL380 gen9 server and installed a fresh Debian Wheezy (kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64) on it. In BIOS I've loaded the optimized default options. Problems:1) Everytime when I type...
View ArticleCan I recreate RAID 5 after deleting it from a RAID controller (ML350G6, P410i)?
Hi all, In short:1. Server = ML350G6 with P410i and 1GB cache2. Server had RAID 5 (5 x 300GB SAS).3. Backed up the server4. Removed the drives & deleted the RAID from the RAID controller5. Created...
View ArticleHP SUM
I have a DL380G6 server that is sometimes shutting down unexpectedly. I ran the latest HP Proliant Support Pack on the server and see that my installed drivers/firmware appear to be current. That said,...
View ArticleLow disk i/o performance on DL 580 G2
Dear All,I recently bought 2 refurbished DL 580 G2's on ebay (with 4 x 3.0 GHz Xeon CPU's + 8GB RAM + 4 X 146 GB USCSI HDD's which are configured in a RAID 5 array on a smart array 5i controller with...
View ArticleAny one know about HP DS-SE2UP-BA,HP DPS-800GBA
Hi all.HP DS-SE2UP-BA,HP DPS-800GBA is a power supply. According to my study HP poewr supply need to short 3 pins to turn it on, which is enable,on/off and DC ground. But this 2 kind of power supply i...
View ArticleML350E converted from rack to Tower. pls advise the part
Hi, pls adivse the part no is correct as stated below:Front bezel SPS P/N: 667267-001 ü Tower feet SPS P/N: 667264-001 ü COVER, TOWER U SHAPE,ML350p Gen8 P/N: 661382-001...
View ArticleHBA Compatibility
We have following HBAs “QLogic Corp. QLA2312 Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 02)” installed in 2 of our DL380 G4 servers. Please confirm the compatibility of these HBAs with RHEL 5.5. SS P.S. This thread...
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