Mentat Posted November 24, 2013 #1 Posted November 24, 2013 HP Proliant Mocroserver Gen8 is the new "star" from HP 4 HOT Swappable HDD HP B120i RAID It supports RAID 0,1,10 (not 5) For RAID 5 a RAID card is necessary. I installed XPEnology 4.3 without problems and it's working, with some exceptions: 1. HDD spindown/Hybernation is not working 2. Power Off button is not working (no busybox support in 4.3) 3. WOL not working in 4.3 Power consumption: 35W Quote
Mentat Posted November 24, 2013 Author #2 Posted November 24, 2013 Here is my message log For this error UDP Failed to set receive buffer: requested 4194304, got 262142 the solution is echo 'net.core.rmem_max = 16777216' >> /etc/sysctl.conf echo 'net.core.wmem_max = 4194304' >> /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl -p Quote
jamesah2008 Posted November 30, 2013 #3 Posted November 30, 2013 I just snagged one of these. Hopefully we can figure out the spin-down issue. Quote
Mentat Posted November 30, 2013 Author #4 Posted November 30, 2013 Great, thank you! BTW, for fan noise, select in bios, Power Management - OS controlled. Quote
xhyperamp Posted January 6, 2014 #5 Posted January 6, 2014 Did you ever find out how to resolve the HDD Spin Down issue? Also I thought DSM could do software RAID which will allow RAID 5. Am I wrong? Quote
fonix232 Posted January 6, 2014 #6 Posted January 6, 2014 You can try using the tool "hdparm" to set the spin down time manually. Also usually, removing the boot USB drive helps (on Gen7 microservers). As for the RAID5 support: given that Synology initializes all disks separately, there is little to no point using the built-in RAID system. If you do, in Synology you'll only see the RAID disks, and while it will be safe on hardware-level, Synology won't be able to manage it. I'd highly suggest to use the built-in options for RAID: SHR seems to be the best, and you can also add hot spare drives to it too. Quote
Mentat Posted January 6, 2014 Author #7 Posted January 6, 2014 HDD Spin - no hope as the bios has no S3 support Do DSM Raid (software). Quote
xhyperamp Posted January 6, 2014 #8 Posted January 6, 2014 I am willing to spend $500 on the 4 Bay NAS System. Would I be better off getting a Gen 7 or Gen 8 Microserver? Or are they any better products which work with DSM that you can think of? I want to run the following. Plex Media ServerVPN ServerWeb ServerMYSQL ServerRadius ServerSabnzbdSickbeardDNS ServerLDAP ServerCouchpotato Quote
Mentat Posted January 6, 2014 Author #9 Posted January 6, 2014 Take the gen 8. Normal NAS is a joke as processing power + RAM ant 500$ Quote
xhyperamp Posted January 7, 2014 #10 Posted January 7, 2014 I wish there was software like DSM for Linux. Sure there is cPanel, zPanel, (Mainly for website hosting, nothing else) Webmin (A little different but it still needs some advance knowledge for configure servers) It's not as simple and nice to install software packages on these systems. DSM is simple, fast to configure, provides all required packages for home. But then there is a lot more software the will just work out of box and provide better security with CentOS. We all love the WebGUI of DSM and we are missing this WebGUI on our linux operating systems. Quote
dyonissos Posted January 18, 2014 #11 Posted January 18, 2014 Anybody using XPenology with the B120i on HP Gen8 Microservers? My only concern is the noise. I need to know if using the built-in RAID controller helps iLO get the temperatures for HDDs and lower the fan speed. In AHCI mode, the fan speed is 37% and the servers is quite noisy. Also, what synoboot version are you using? 1.4 beta seems to have issues with USB devices (UPS, printer, HDD) Thanks! Quote
jamesah2008 Posted January 27, 2014 #12 Posted January 27, 2014 There's a somewhat half baked fan fix that seems to have helped a little bit. It brings the fans down to 27%. Still not really all that good but better. http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ProLiant-S ... uaJfWTnZcw Quote
juktuk Posted January 9, 2015 #13 Posted January 9, 2015 Any news on the fan issue? I'm planning to get a second-hand G8 and the only thing I plan to install is XPEnology. I found this solution for the fan issue: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2147 And this solution for the WOL issue: http://www.xpenology.nl/wake-on-lan/ Is it possible to combine these? Or speaking in more general terms: is it possible to have no fan noise and the wake on LAN (WOL) support? And a last question - just to be sure - will this setup support: VPN Cloud (being a cloud and connection to dropbox, box, OneDrive, Google Drive) RADIUS server Mail Thanks in advance Quote
M3kk Posted January 10, 2015 #14 Posted January 10, 2015 Yeah. There is a bios that lower the fan even to 5-12% (with AHCI). I will post the link to it soon. (Atm i'm from phone). Sent from my CloudMobile using Tapatalk LE: Bios ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1 ... 401/v98895 , also the 2.03 iLo FW http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/publ ... nvOid=4138 Extract both, and upload them with the current iLo .. Quote
karatasi7 Posted January 12, 2015 #15 Posted January 12, 2015 Anybody using DSM 5 on this beauty ? How does it works? K. Quote
gromez Posted January 12, 2015 #16 Posted January 12, 2015 Does Plex transcoding working well with the Gen8? High CPU usage? Quote
M3kk Posted January 12, 2015 #17 Posted January 12, 2015 I'm using DSM 5, working perfect. About plex dont know, i dont like to use any DLNA who using transcoding (i'm using serviio, with transcoding disabled). I wish to use twonky too . Sent from my CloudMobile using Tapatalk Quote
karatasi7 Posted January 13, 2015 #18 Posted January 13, 2015 I'm using DSM 5, working perfect. About plex dont know, i dont like to use any DLNA who using transcoding (i'm using serviio, with transcoding disabled). I wish to use twonky too . What's the procedure to install DSM 5 on HP Gen8 ? Tnx K. Quote
martva Posted January 14, 2015 #20 Posted January 14, 2015 You can try using the tool "hdparm" to set the spin down time manually. Also usually, removing the boot USB drive helps (on Gen7 microservers). As for the RAID5 support: given that Synology initializes all disks separately, there is little to no point using the built-in RAID system. If you do, in Synology you'll only see the RAID disks, and while it will be safe on hardware-level, Synology won't be able to manage it. I'd highly suggest to use the built-in options for RAID: SHR seems to be the best, and you can also add hot spare drives to it too. Can you enlighten me one the part on how removing the USB drive will cause the HDDs to spin down? I don't get it... Quote
ivamvako Posted January 20, 2015 #21 Posted January 20, 2015 I'm using DSM 5, working perfect. About plex dont know, i dont like to use any DLNA who using transcoding (i'm using serviio, with transcoding disabled). I wish to use twonky too . Sent from my CloudMobile using Tapatalk Have you installed DSM with ESXI or USB method? Was there any issue with noise? Thanks! Quote
M3kk Posted January 20, 2015 #22 Posted January 20, 2015 Both, but actually i`m using the USB method + phpVirtualbox for virtual machines. I use the iLo and Bios version from here: viewtopic.php?p=29256#p29256 and no noise issues . Quote
ivamvako Posted January 20, 2015 #23 Posted January 20, 2015 Both, but actually i`m using the USB method + phpVirtualbox for virtual machines.I use the iLo and Bios version from here: viewtopic.php?p=29256#p29256 and no noise issues . OK! thanks to your reply I just ordered the server. Hope everything gonna be OK. Thanks Quote
M3kk Posted January 20, 2015 #24 Posted January 20, 2015 For sure u cant sleep on it . Sent from my CloudMobile using Tapatalk Quote
Vodka2014 Posted January 21, 2015 #25 Posted January 21, 2015 Hi All I have the Entry Level Model and i cannot get this to install. I am getting Eth0 + Eth1 not running all the time. Any advice please as i would like to get this working. Thanks Quote
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