I'm been running two HP MicroServers as home-servers under CentOS-5.6 for 2 months, and have been very happy with their performance. I'm wondering if there are many other MicroServer/CentOS users around? I've been surprised when looking at the MicroServer forums (eg <<http://www.avforums.com/forums/networking-nas/ 1431514-hp-proliant-microserver-n36l-owners-thread.html>) how few posts I see from CentOS users, even though RHEL is one of the only two OS's officially supported by HP for this machine (the other is Windows Home Server). Is there by chance a MicroServer/CentOS forum anywhere? I haven't been able to locate one. The MicroServer is incredibly cheap at the moment, as HP keep extending their cash-back offer which brings the price down to about ?160 (with 1GB RAM and a 250GB SATA disk). There is a large amount of official HP Linux support, eg the "HP Smart Update Manager", though as usual with HP software I find it quite difficult to use. (I have the same feeling about HP support for printers.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
On 7/3/11, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:> I'm been running two HP MicroServers as home-servers under CentOS-5.6 > for 2 months, and have been very happy with their performance. > I'm wondering if there are many other MicroServer/CentOS users around?I thought the HP MicroServer was a nice little box for low demand CentOS servers, but unfortunately HP inexplicably refuses to sell it in my country.
> I'm been running two HP MicroServers as home-servers under CentOS-5.6 > for 2 months, and have been very happy with their performance. > I'm wondering if there are many other MicroServer/CentOS users around?I'm also running it for two days now, eagerly waiting for CentOS 6.0 to be released so it can replace my aging, power wasting home server. Very nice box for what I'm going to use it, there are not many alternatives around. Simon
I was looking at the marketing hype on those machines, and they look like they take a standard 3.5" SATA drive. OTOH, some pictures of the HP model drives for the microserver look like there's some type of handle on the front. I'm assuming that this is the "hard disk carrier" mentioned in the installation manual. Does the basic microserver ship with four of those drive carriers, or do they have to be purchased separately? Also, would anyone who has a CentOS-based microserver with a remote access card care to share any observations about that card, such as integration aspects and accessing it in a completely windows-free environment? Devin -- Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. - Oscar Wilde
> -----Original Message----- > From: Timothy Murphy > Sent: 03/07/2011 10:52 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] CentOS on the HP MicroServer > > I'm been running two HP MicroServers as home-servers under CentOS-5.6 > for 2 months, and have been very happy with their performance. > I'm wondering if there are many other MicroServer/CentOS users around?I'm running C 5 x86_64 (currently 5.5) on mine. Given it the full 8GB of ECC RAM. I've put the drive it came with (the 160GB) into the optical drive bay, so it now shows as hdb. I've got 4 x 1.5TB in the main slots, showing as sda-sdd. They are hot swap under C 5, with the kernel happily doing whatever it does when a drive is plugged/unplugged. I've got them as a 3 disk ZFS RAID-Z array, with the fourth as a spare, under zfs-fuse. The write perf isn't great, but most access is over Samba and my wireless / distinctly under par gigabit network, so it serves me well. And we love snapshots and all those other lovely ZFS features, so that outweighs anything else. Also running Squeezebox server and an old version of VMware Server, with a couple of VMs (not under ZFS - that would be too slow). Looking forward to C 6! Glad to hear that SL 6 works OK. Andy