Posts Tagged ‘Microserver’
Saturday was very rainy, so I thought I’d finally get around to upgrading my home lab from ESXi 5.5 to 6.5. I started with my #2 Gen 8 Microserver as I don’t have any live VMs on it, and thus began many wasted hours of reboot after reboot failing to get anything to work. Slow […]
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Tags: Flash, Gen 8, HP, HPE, iLO, iLO 4, ILO4, Microserver, NAND, reformat, slow, USB
Home Lab/Network
Background Jess Frazelle has recently been blogging about her Home Lab, which made me realise that over the years I’ve written here about pieces of my own lab, but never the entirety. Network Wired networks are better for bandwidth, reliability and latency, so I use wired whenever I can. Taking a queue from Ian Miell’s […]
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Tags: home, lab, Microserver, network, VM, VMware
I fell into a trap with my new Gen 8 Microservers like this: Install 60 day trial license for iLO Advanced Update BIOS date/time Find that trial license has now expired :( There really should be some sort of warning on the license page (and maybe also the serial/password tag) to say update your clock […]
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Tags: default, factory, Gen8, HP, iLO, Microserver, reset
Gen8 Microservers
TL;DR I’ve been a fan of HP Microservers since the original NL36 model. When the newer Gen8 servers came to market they were a bit pricey, but the cost has come down, and cash back deals have returned. Faster CPUs, larger official memory capacity, dual NICs and remote console capabilities makes these ideal for a […]
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Tags: CPU, ESXi, Gen8, HP, iLO, license, Microserver, NAS, RAM, ZFS
I ordered this card to go in my latest Microserver running the Windows 8 Developer Preview, but before it arrived I found an old NVidia Quadro NVS 285 lying around, which fitted the bill perfectly for doing dual DVI. My next thought was to upgrade the NVidia Geforce 210 in my (now rarely used) workstation. […]
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Tags: 5450, benchmark, DX10, DX11, fit, HD, heatsink, Lego Universe, Microserver, Radeon, Sapphire, WEI
I like to get familiar with new versions of Windows early in the cycle, so it was great to see the Developer Preview being made available ahead of a beta. First impressions The new Metro interface hits right between the eyes. I can’t say that I’m a fan yet. It seems well adapted to touch screens, but I’m […]
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Tags: desktop, KVM, Metro, Microserver, N40L, USB, wifi, Windows 8, wireless
Another Microserver
After switching to using my tablet PC as my main machine I was missing the local storage and optical drive from my desktop. The solution was to get another HP Microserver to be a sort of sidecar when I want the extra drives. As the HP cashback deal is still on this is a surprisingly […]
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Tags: 2008R2, codec, divx, hibernate, HP, iSCSI, Media Player, Microserver, transcoding, video, Windows
For many years I ran a desktop PC in my home office, and it was always on in order to provide various services to other machines scattered around the house. The one good thing about this arrangement was that the room was always warm in winter. After getting my NAS and Microserver I started paying […]
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Tags: always on, cool, desktop, docking, dual, energy, green, heat, laptop, Microserver, NAS, PC, quiet, quieter, screen, sleep, tablet, Thunderbolt, Ultrabase
Review – HP Microserver
This might well be the bargain of the decade, and I must say that I’m quite cross that the news took so long to find me. A couple of days after I bought my NAS a friend tweeted: I asked Leslie how it was so cheap. It turns out that the (ex VAT) price was […]
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Tags: HP, Microserver, review
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