I do have an iLO advanced license I bought on Amazon for about $40, but I am hesitant to install it as I don’t know if the same thing will happen there. ![]() The license didn’t truly expire, but for some reason the iLO thinks it did.įor now I haven’t reinstalled it as I’ve got the host basically set up. This entry shows up 3 times, then 13 hours after the third occurrence I get:īut this was only a day after the initial license install (and less than a week after it was generated at HP’s web site). The only thing I can see is that at every power up (can’t recall if wall power was removed or if this was just an OS reboot, I was moving the server around so it might have been the former) I see: A day or so later the license had expired again. I then installed an OS and began to set things up. I reset the the iLO to factory defaults and reinstalled my demo license. Well, it isn’t just an explicit time reset that clears the demo license. I don’t know of an alternative but the fan will always go at the same speed with the P3 cable, there’s no temperature / fan speed control, are you going to try to throttle it down so it’s not always running at full speed? If you do install a fan let me know how it goes, I may do the same thing. ![]() I haven’t actually tried entering the key yet so I don’t know that it works, my plan is to not activate it until I need it because chances or I will go a year or two without needing to remotely mount media. I don’t want to mess with that so I bought an ILO Advanced 1-year subscription off of ebay, you can get them for around $35 and I think they work with ILO4. ![]() There is no DVD drive with the server, so with no ILO4 license the only way to mount media is to physically plug a USB flash (or USB DVD drive if you have one) into the server and boot off of it. One thing that does require the Advanced ILO license is remotely mounting media or an ISO file from your computer. I can even connect for 40 seconds from the Android App. What’s interesting is with no license installed I can still get access to the console for 40 seconds at a time, then it will kick me out with “An iLO Advanced License is required for continued use after server startup.”, but as far as I can tell I can reconnect as often as I want for 40 seconds at a time. I must have messed up my trial because it now says no license is installed, I was in the BIOS looking at all the settings and I know I adjusted the clock so maybe that invalidated the trial license. I used the 60 day trial version of ILO4 Advanced and got VMWare installed, you can get it here: Update: I just remembered the heatsink is mounted with screws, not pushpins, so maybe this instead: Maybe something like this: …it’s actually rated for 73W so it would support the Xeon E3. One problem you might have with the Noctua is it blows straight up and there’s not a lot of room above the CPU, I think it will fit but you might be better off with a fan designed for a 1U server that blows air towards the back of the case. Categories Computing Tags Microserverįilip, that’s right, the V3 Xeons are not compatible. *Processors ending in a 5 have integrated HD graphics, I’m not sure if this will cause problems. I think the best value is the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The main reasons to upgrade to a Xeon is the AES instruction set, VT-d, or more cores and a faster clock speed. The stock processor does not differ from the i3 except for clock speed and hyper-threading, so I don’t think it’s worth the money to upgrade to an i3. I’ve excluded the Core i5 series because they don’t support ECC. ![]() Here’s a list of processors I think would be good candidates. Temperature inside my house is currently 84F so if it can survive a full load in this heat I’m not concerned about it running into problems. You can see the temperatures bumped up but still within specifications. Now I’ve got hyper-threading and VT-d (Direct Path I/O) on a Gen8 Microserver!Īnd the temperature is doing just fine… CPU Load Testġ0 minutes full load using “stress” on a VM. VMware ESXi booted just fine (I used the version provided by HP). The CPU will only go into Turbo when a single core is being utilized so TDP would be low anyway). (Update: I later learned that disabling Turbo isn’t necessary. I thought it wise to at least go into the BIOS and disable 3.7GHz Turbo, so the max we’ll hit is 3.3GHz. I’ve never applied thermal paste, so I’m not sure if that’s the right amount, but that’s how much I did. I figure worse case I could disable two of the four cores to bring it down to 35W. I already have a Xeon E3-1230 V2 (69W), and for most people this is a better option because it’s readily available and affordable.
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