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HP ProLiant MicroServer
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do you have more than 12 connected?howamidifferent wrote: »I have the N36L and have installed a PCIex1 card with two esata connectors.
This I have attached to an 8 bay esata enclosure. Two connectors from the enclosure to the card.
The Proliant on boot allows entry into the esata cards bios which correctly lists the 8 drivesin the external enclosure by model number and serial number.
In the Proliant itself I have the 4 internal bays occupied and have the OS in the ODD bay on the original 250GB disk.
Problem is after the esta cards bios test I can press F10 to get into the Proliant bios. But here it lists only 12 drives.
With the result that one of the 8 in the enclosure is not listed and thus is not available to the OS.
The Proliant bios lists the OS drive, the 4 internal and the first 7 in the enlosure.
The enclosure drives are all healthy. If I swap their slot locations within the enclosure I can see in the Proliant bios that the movement is seen but it will always only list the first 7 in the enclosure. So it seems the Proliant Bios is locked to see only 12 hard drives.
Likewise the OS presents only these 12 drives made available through the Proliant bios.
Is there anyone who can confirm this and more to the point, is there any way of increasing or getting around this 12 drive limit?
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sorry, but is that a serious question?do you have more than 12 connected?
you just quoted a post in which he goes into great detail to explain that he has 13 drives connected (8+4+1=13) and that the last one isn't recognised and the whole point of the post was to ask if anyone knew how to get around this 12 disk limit.howamidifferent wrote: »The Proliant on boot allows entry into the esata cards bios which correctly lists the 8 drives in the external enclosure by model number and serial number.
In the Proliant itself I have the 4 internal bays occupied and have the OS in the ODD bay on the original 250GB disk. 0 -
Hmm, how about it as an odd Christmas present. "Here ya go, your very own media server!"
Thats what I did for my Dad
I bought two under the offer, one for me and one for him. Like lots of other posters I have spent ages trying to decide what to do with it (and wanting to do everything). I have finally come to my senses and decided on a WHS 2011 box using raid 1. Was half tempted with unraid but decided I wanted to be able to automate backups too.
I am currently debating buying another from servers+ as they have the newer version available still with the rebate! Theres a great vmware version for around £180 (after the rebate).
If I do my life won't be worth living with the missus though!0 -
yeah sorry, i missed the os in the odd place, my badsorry, but is that a serious question?
you just quoted a post in which he goes into great detail to explain that he has 13 drives connected (8+4+1=13) and that the last one isn't recognised and the whole point of the post was to ask if anyone knew how to get around this 12 disk limit.
well then the thing to do is only the os drive and 2 internal and 8 enclosure and see if the bios lists all 8 from the enclosure.
there is a limit on most bios on reported hard drives, though i'm not sure what this is for this model.0 -
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I've been running unraid server on this for the last few months. I got 3x2TB WD greens and a little WD scorpio 500gb drive that I use for downloading/processing/main temporary storage (since its spun up all the time downloading).
Really love it so far, I wrote a few scripts to more or less automate everything I would have to do otherwise such as copy all the latest tv/movies to the correct folders on the raid, keep a log file of all the recent downloads and update my external drive with the last few weeks of additions.
I got 2x htpcs connecting to it with xbmc. I was thinking about putting the database on the server but I have an ssd in one of the htpcs which would kinda defeat the purpose.
I like the fact that it only spins up the drive that is in use and while the others are spun down.
I have a static ip address and bookmarks on all the laptops in the house to the downloads (sab/transmission) should they wish to stop them/looks whats downloading and there is also a folder on the network for torrents etc.
Dont know how I survived without one of these for so long! And I really have learned so much linux and love it now!:D
That's fantastic stuff, unlimited bb is great isn't it
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these ones? http://www.serversplus.com/servers/server_bundlesServers+ (sorry no link) are doing a few bundles (all with the £100 off) including a special VMware unit. Only downside is they are UK based.
hmm, borg. 0 -
Thats them
With reference to GaryCocs question regarding FreeNAS, they have added a couple more since I last looked including a 4TB NAS box (which comes with FreeNAS 8 on a USB Stick).0 -
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From doing the research with the lads help, I was also thinking of upgrading my NAS to some 2 bay device but from what I've heard here and another thread I've started >2 bay is the way to go as it gives you the option of raid 5 which from my understanding is the most cost effective way of backing up your data.
Raid 5 => 3 drives = 2 data 1 backup
Raid 0 => run away (no backup)
Raid 1 => 2 drives = 1 data 1 backup
Looking forward to sorting out my server now in a couple of days.
Will also be selling my Buffallo 2 bay has in a couple of days 0 -
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someone is bound to come on and say it, so it might as well be me.From doing the research with the lads help, I was also thinking of upgrading my NAS to some 2 bay device but from what I've heard here and another thread I've started >2 bay is the way to go as it gives you the option of raid 5 which from my understanding is the most cost effective way of backing up your data.
Raid 5 => 3 drives = 2 data 1 backup
Raid 0 => run away (no backup)
Raid 1 => 2 drives = 1 data 1 backup
Looking forward to sorting out my server now in a couple of days.
Will also be selling my Buffallo 2 bay has in a couple of days
RAID (of any kind) is not a proper backup solution.
yes, it can make our data a little safer, but there's no substitute for proper backups. that said, proper backups are a tad on the awkward (and/or expensive) side for most home users and most of the time RAID is as good as it gets.
on big (relatively unreliable) consumer grade drives, i'd be nervous seeing any more than 4x2tb disks in a RAID5 set, so if you plan on using bigger, or more than 4 disks, plan on using RAID6 or an equiv. (i.e. two disks for parity), or multiple smaller arrays, as you have a fairly high chance of getting a URE on the remaining disks on a RAID rebuild, which is most likely going to be catastrophically bad news for your data.
if (like me) most of your data is (obviously, copyright free and legally obtained *cough*) music, games, movies and tv shows, then a lot of it is going to be replaceable by re-downloading, so for most of it I trust (the freeNAS version of) RAID6 to keep me as safe as possible without being too much of an inconcenience and only mirror critical data onto another drive outside of my NAS, which is then also uploaded to the cloud depending on what it is, such as photo's to photobucket and picasa, docs etc. to dropbox and those irreplaceable home movies to youtube and vimeo.
of course, now i've said it out loud, someone will be along very shortly to correct me. :pac:0 -
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is it possible that the server is not in a fully powered off state and that it's just in one of the available suspended modes and that WOL isn't supported by the OS in that state?
it might be worth checking your BIOS to see which power off states are available to test, and to power down the server totally and re-try sending a WOL packet to it and see what happens.
as long as the server is totally powered down rather than suspended and WOL is supported by the NIC (regardless of the OS) it *should* (he says, instantly jinxing himself) still power up as the result should be no different than physically buttoning it.
hopefully. 0
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