I've just received an off-lease DL380 (G3) machine. It's up and running in CentOS 5.3 now, and seems to work great... But I'm wondering what people using these machines recommend for updates / firmware / monitoring. I'm mostly a "whitebox" guy with limited experience with Dell's OpenManage, but his HP stuff is all foreign to me.
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I've been running a Proliant DL380 G2 for awhile now, and today Ive run into a new problem. But first...
* When I setup and installed Windows 2000 on the server, I had installed a sound card in it as well.
* I then installed all the necessary software to run the server, and one of the drivers that were installed throttled down the fans.
Everything has worked flawlessly for 24/7 for 9 months up until today. Today I uninstalled the sound card drivers from device manager, then shutdown the server and removed the sound card. I then powered up the server, and now all the fans are running full blast and no longer throttling. If anyone hasn't been around a proliant, imagine 6 hair dryers running.
Right now, I cant hear anything else that's going on around me and if anyone has any experience with proliants I'm very open to suggestions on getting these fans back down to a tolerable level.
The only errors I'm getting in event viewer are the usual DCOM errors. Event ID 10005
Right im about to invest in some new equipment for the business and am looking at one of the 2 above servers. Does anyone have any experience with both or either?
The spec of the machine to start is as follows:
HP Proliant DL380 G5
Intel Quad-Core Xeon 2.5Ghz
4GB Ram
3x 146GB SAS Hotswap RAID5 (OS)
5x 146GB SAS Hotswap RAID5 (Storage)
Dell Poweredge 2950 III
Intel Quad-Core Xeon 2.5Ghz
4GB Ram
3x 146GB SAS RAID5 (OS)
5x 146GB SAS RAID5 (Storage)
Both are near identical specs and the price of the HP is slightly more, is it worth it?
I'm just wondering what kind of network throughput a DL380 would give assuming 100% RAM hit rate? This is just for video hosting. Is about 1 Gb/s (bits/sec) a reasonable estimate?
I assume with lower hit rates this would degrade dramatically to the HDD read speed.
I understand these are strange questions but they are just for some research I am doing (I have no intention of building anything).
I have many years of experience with Intel (SR1325, SR2200, SR2300, etc) and HP ProLiant DL servers, and have come to love HP. Their ILO2 remote management/power/KVM/VirtualMedia feature is hands-down the best I've used, and for me it's been 100% rock-solid reliable (unlike the horror stories heard about Dell DRAC cards flaking out and locking up when you need them most).
Now there's something shiny catching my eye-- the Supermicro 1U Twin systems.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/1UTwin.cfm?pg=1
Given my long positive history with HP, I'm reluctant to consider another brand, but it is hard to ignore double-density servers with colo prices (rackspace costs, not just power costs) spiraling upward.
I would love to hear from folks who have used both HP and Supermicro boxes in production. Specifically, about reliablity of the Supermicro platform in general AND about the reliability of their IPMI management modules even under Murphy's Law situations. The last thing I need is not to be able to remote-console or power cycle an unresponsive server because the IPMI card is flaky.
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simple.
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