Koozali.org: home of the SME Server
Contribs.org Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: boerner on October 22, 2010, 01:04:12 AM
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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://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.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859105905)
http://www.techhead.co.uk/video-hp-proliant-microserver-hands-on-review (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?
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as far as I can see, it only supports RH5, so you should install SME8
I think SME7 won't support it
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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
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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 :P
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 :grin:
Regards, Mark Leman