Topic: Nice new hardware for SME Server

[boerner]

I have been following the release of this little guy for a few weeks now:

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-4237916-4237918-4237917-4248009.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859105905

http://www.techhead.co.uk/video-hp-proliant-microserver-hands-on-review


Nice little unit that starts at only $329 and holds up to four drives and uses ECC DIMMs. Also has two expansion slots that can hold an additional NIC and a Lights Out management card.

Anyone out there try to install SME on one of these?

[Stefano]

as far as I can see, it only supports RH5, so you should install SME8

I think SME7 won't support it

[janet]

boerner

On this page
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/DS_00202/DS_00202.pdf
it seems to say that Red Hat 5 is supported, which is equiv to Centos5, ie SME8
There are additional PCI slots for a NIC (or two if the onboard one is not compatible)

Ask HP

[markleman]

I just tried SME8b6 on one and it installed as expected and appears to work fine including the network interface. Now to find a PCEe Ethernet card to add a second interface.....

I used an external USB CD drive because I did not have a spare internal drive to hand.

Time from opening the box to working server : <30mins 

These servers are going for a song in the UK, HP are doing a £100 mail in rebate until the end of the month. The best price I could find was £187, needless to say that several of my colleagues were tempted by an '£87' server so we bought 5, now I just have to convince them to try SME server

Regards, Mark Leman