Topic: HP Proliant Servers

[misnerspace]

Hi All,

My SME server has treated me very well over the last 3 years, this year it hasn't crashed or had a problem as yet, so I want to treat it by moving it onto a nice piece of brand new and shiny hardware. I was wondering if anyone could give me an recommendations in terms of HP servers. We're a small school with about 350 users (students and staff) and I was wondering whether the DL300 servers would be powerful enough for our needs. The most heavily used application is Moodle which has started to run pretty slowly as more and more students/teacher have started embracing it. Any thoughts or suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

[mgic_box]

Hi All,

My SME server has treated me very well over the last 3 years, this year it hasn't crashed or had a problem as yet, so I want to treat it by moving it onto a nice piece of brand new and shiny hardware. I was wondering if anyone could give me an recommendations in terms of HP servers. We're a small school with about 350 users (students and staff) and I was wondering whether the DL300 servers would be powerful enough for our needs. The most heavily used application is Moodle which has started to run pretty slowly as more and more students/teacher have started embracing it. Any thoughts or suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

What I cal tell you, is that I have it installed and running, on a HP DL360 G4P

It runs fast, and all the hardware was detected and recognised automatically during the install process, without problems. Just hit enter. Only it hasn’t configured the hardware sensors, but I do not use it. So to me it’s ok.

Thank you all de SME dev. Team for this wonderful piece of sw.

[steever]

It's good to see you still using SME, Good Steve!

For the record, the school in question has been using SME Server since January 2004.

Bad Steve.

[misnerspace]

Bad Steve, yep we're still using SME , the next step will be to use Affa so I can can mirror SME on a backup server. I'll have a fun summer! I think we discussed this before but could I move moodle to a dedicated server which will still allow students externally to get to it via SME? I'm worried as the demand increases for network services particularlt Moodle seems  to be  increasing month by month, I may have to start thinking about 'segmenting' some of the services. Has anybody else tried doing this?

[wtso444]

Installed SME on ML/DL 380's, dual everything, 5i and 6i raid controllers and most with 5-73GB SCSI in an array.  Configured the raid with smart start and installed with CD.  Even though the Instight boards are in place I do not use them.  These servers are installed at not for profit orgs, church, united way, etc. - there are enough lights on the proliants that will let you know if there is anything wrong with it...  As a matter of fact - just upgraded one of them tonight to 7.3 - no problem....  Just have to be careful where you place the 380's, fans sound like jet plane at idle but most of these mentioned are located in closets without much cool air so I let em run wide open...  If you want to take the time, the Compaq enterprise agents for red had will work most likely...

[steever]

From the wiki:

Proxy Pass

    * I want to pass some http requests to a server behind my SME Server or external to my site, how can I do this?

You can set a ProxyPass directive that will pass certain requests to an internal or external server that hosts the domain to be proxypassed

db domains set proxypassdomain.com domain
db domains setprop proxypassdomain.com Nameservers internet
db domains setprop proxypassdomain.com ProxyPassTarget http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/
db domains setprop proxypassdomain.com TemplatePath ProxyPassVirtualHosts
signal-event domain-create proxypassdomain.com

where proxypassdomain.com is the domain name hosted on the internal or external server and http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ is the IP address of the internal or external server eg 192.168.1.20 or 122.456.12.171 (it must be the publicly accessible IP if an external server)

So I guess you add a new server, maybe an Ubuntu Server with the easy lamp stack, somewhere on your LAN, give it a static IP address.  Don't add it to the virtual servers through the server-manager as this will make problems.  Then run the above commands in the console.

I am not totally sure about this line, though,

db domains setprop proxypassdomain.com Nameservers internet

so maybe someone here can explain a little more.

I would advise using moodle.schoolname.ac.jp as moodle's server name as you already have a subdomain by that name set up (if memory serves).  If you don't you'll need to contact JAIST to set up the subdomain pointing towards the school's public IP address.

Let me know how it goes.

Steve