Well I just ordered a Proliant gen10+ microserver, as the gen10 of for
1/2 the price was the $0.59 hamburger (we ad it, but you can't order it).
I also ordered 4 Seagate 4T terascale drives (seems nothing smaller around).
So in some 2 weeks I will have it all together and will see what happens
when I do the install.
:)
Supposedly there is an internal boot usb port in the gen10+
On 1/6/23 09:42, Robert Heller wrote:
At Fri, 6 Jan 2023 08:39:22 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi
I have found a:
HPE 873830-S01 ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
for <$300 without drives. If I can believe the seller, it has a AMD
Opteron X3216 Dual-core (2 Core) 1.6GHz and 8GB Installed.
It has 4 3.5" bays. and 1? "Media" bay?
https://www.servertechsupply.com/873830-s01/
this could well be acceptable. Got to find out power draw. Looks like
~40W.
Any input on issues of OS install? Do I go with separate OS and data
RAID1 sets?
I usually do
[ 1(+n) RAID1 ]->[ LVM ]->[ XFS ]
then you can use LVM to manage different filesystems as required.
/boot and/or /boot/efi should be on its own RAID1 with old metadata
version but I'm not up to date about how the situation is exactly with
EL9.
It depends on the version of Grub. Grub V1 needs /boot to be RAID1 with old
metadata (metadata at the *end* of the partition, so Grub just sees a plain
ext2/3/4 file system to find vmlinuz and initrd). Note: /boot/efi or the grub
fs that Grub2 seems to want cannot be RAID, but you should duplicate the
partitions across all of the physical disks in the raid set and arange some
other way of "mirroring" them (eg rsync or some such -- does not need to be
continious, since these file systems don't change continuiously). I believe
Grub V2 understands raid and LVM, so having a separate /boot raid set might
not be needed. Things like /boot/efi and grub's on fs still need to exist
outside of the raid set and will need "manual" mirroring.
Simon
Also HPE is ClearOS. I ran ClearOS6 for years before going with QNAP
turnkey. Perhaps current ClearOS is better, but it does not handle
multi-domain email as I need. Or it did not. So I am going to install
my own CentOS variant and iRedMail...
thanks
On 1/5/23 13:08, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 08:18:08AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Proliant gen8 does NOT have UEFI.
So I think this means I better move up to the gen10...
I'm pleased with my Gen 10+ (Plus). Pricer than I thought
you want.
I like the "no power supply", just an external brick.
Quiet. I put in a PCI card to use 2 NVMe sticks, one for
system and one for /home. You can also boot from an internal
usb port like a thumb drive permanently installed.
Carriers for 2.5inch SSD drives work fine so with few fans,
no drive motors, could be quite low power.
Mine acts as email server, local caching DNS server (dnsmasq)
and Amanda backup server.
Jon
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