HP ProLiant MicroServer

jack1986 said:
it had some weird resolution issues picking up my HDTV (its maximum output resolution was 1024x768 in the menu, and I had to override it in the config files)
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Care to Post a How-To on doing that? I also can't set it to 1080p yet..
 
I had some lying around. :) I'm interested that, in this thread, people are saying that OpenELEC is fine with 1GB or less, and that a NAS needs more (an earlier poster suggested 8GB). When I did some initial research on this, I broadly found the opposite answer: that OpenELEC needed a couple of GB to run, and that a NAS should be okay with 1GB. Processes on OpenELEC are currently using about 2GB when streaming HD.

Will a NAS always be fairly memory hungry? The earlier poster (was that you? I haven't gone back and checked) was running ZFS, which I imagine must add some overhead because of the calculations it performs. Does that increase the memory footprint?
 
jack1986 said:
Will a NAS always be fairly memory hungry? The earlier poster (was that you? I haven't gone back and checked) was running ZFS, which I imagine must add some overhead because of the calculations it performs. Does that increase the memory footprint?
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As of FreeNAS 8, the suggested minimum jumped to 4GB. I am running ZFS so that does add additional overhead - 8GB is probably overkill in this regard.
 
Keeper said:
Care to Post a How-To on doing that? I also can't set it to 1080p yet..
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Sure. It's really easy once someone tells you how. Is your card Nvidia? If so, in XBMC's Configfiles directory, create a file called xorg.conf and put this in it:

Code: 
Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option         "DynamicTwinView" "False"
    Option         "NoFlip" "false"
    Option         "NoLogo" "true"
    Option         "ConnectToAcpid" "0"
    Option         "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"
    Option         "ModeValidation" "NoVesaModes, NoXServerModes"
    Option         "HWCursor" "false"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "screen"
    Device         "nvidia"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "ColorRange" "Full"
#    Option         "ColorRange" "Limited"
#    Option         "ColorSpace" "RGB"
#    Option         "ColorSpace" "YCbCr444"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1920x1080_60"
    EndSubSection
EndSection 

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "false"
EndSection

That's all I had to do. The thread with this information in it indicated that there was currently not a similar solution for ATi/Intel.
 
Ok Yeti I hit a roadblock. When opening freenas in the webgui i cant create any volumes as non are listed. Also tried to add or atleast freenas vm in esxi don't allow me add my disks either just the option to increase the existing one where its currently installed.

Help!!
 
jack1986 said:
Sure. It's really easy once someone tells you how. Is your card Nvidia? If so, in XBMC's Configfiles directory, create a file called xorg.conf and put this in it:

Code: 
Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option         "DynamicTwinView" "False"
    Option         "NoFlip" "false"
    Option         "NoLogo" "true"
    Option         "ConnectToAcpid" "0"
    Option         "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"
    Option         "ModeValidation" "NoVesaModes, NoXServerModes"
    Option         "HWCursor" "false"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "screen"
    Device         "nvidia"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "ColorRange" "Full"
#    Option         "ColorRange" "Limited"
#    Option         "ColorSpace" "RGB"
#    Option         "ColorSpace" "YCbCr444"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1920x1080_60"
    EndSubSection
EndSection 

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "false"
EndSection

That's all I had to do. The thread with this information in it indicated that there was currently not a similar solution for ATi/Intel.
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Thanks for the info. I also had troubles, but did not get round to fixing it.

For those who are wondering where to do this (in Openelec the /etc is in a read-only file system):
I Just browsed from a networked pc to my HPMS and there was a Configfiles share. Just create a new file in there called xorg.conf and paste the above into it. Reboot and it will hopefully work ;)
 
Ordered mine on Saturday. Reading through every page in this thread :)
Really keen on running ESXi and a few VMs on it for testing, as well as XBMC.
 
abs1 said:
Ok Yeti I hit a roadblock. When opening freenas in the webgui i cant create any volumes as non are listed. Also tried to add or atleast freenas vm in esxi don't allow me add my disks either just the option to increase the existing one where its currently installed.

Help!!
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Fixed ^:), new problems:(
1. Windows not displaying my Cifs/samba shares of Freenas in my network ( currently W7 ultimate 32bit Homegroup)
2. Nfs shares mounted but cant write to it from windows 7( error 8007003) part of the file is locked by another application) could this be vmware ? as freenas 8 is virtualised in esxi.

Volume setup in freenas 8 (64bit) as raid stripe with zfs fs.

Im running out of I ideas, and to top it off im a total linux noob :(
 
abs1 said:
Fixed ^:), new problems:(
1. Windows not displaying my Cifs/samba shares of Freenas in my network ( currently W7 ultimate 32bit Homegroup)
2. Nfs shares mounted but cant write to it from windows 7( error 8007003) part of the file is locked by another application) could this be vmware ? as freenas 8 is virtualised in esxi.

Volume setup in freenas 8 (64bit) as raid stripe with zfs fs.

Im running out of I ideas, and to top it off im a total linux noob :(
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This all seems like misconfiguration of FreeNAS. While I am not going to sit here and try diagnose these symptoms blindly, the first suggestion I can make confidently is to check the misconfigured permissions. Ensure you have created a group, corresponding users and shared each share with the correct permissions. I already made a .zip of screenshots of my configuration for another user on this forum and this solved his issues by copying (the majority of them) verbatim. Please PM me your email address if you would like me to forward this on to you.
 
yeti said:
This all seems like misconfiguration of FreeNAS. While I am not going to sit here and try diagnose these symptoms blindly, the first suggestion I can make confidently is to check the misconfigured permissions. Ensure you have created a group, corresponding users and shared each share with the correct permissions. I already made a .zip of screenshots of my configuration for another user on this forum and this solved his issues by copying (the majority of them) verbatim. Please PM me your email address if you would like me to forward this on to you.
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Thanks man, I think I followed an anon guide on freenas.org with no user and password required and gave read and write permissions on the raid volume to guest users and guest group, will have a look at your screenshots you suggested will pm you my email.:)
 
Hi guys, I'm struggling with this as well, just can't seem to sort out the permissions. I've followed the FreeNas instructions on the website for setting up anonymous windows shares. All I am basically trying to do is create one volume (files) with datasets such as movies, tvshows etc. I want all PC's on the network to be able to see the share and be able to read from it and copy from it, but want to be the only one able to write to it (not sure if my current config will even support this) I've tried a variety of settings and guides but no luck. Would greatly appreciate any feedback. (running FreeNas 8.02)
 
Im having some troubles on OpenELEC with the HP - for some reason, my 2TB that works in my PC, suddenly doesn't want to get picked up in the HP
 
Keeper said:
Im having some troubles on OpenELEC with the HP - for some reason, my 2TB that works in my PC, suddenly doesn't want to get picked up in the HP
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What do you mean by "picked up"? How is the drive formatted? OpenELEC should automount compatibly formatted drives to /var/media -- it's worked pretty successfully for me.
 
I've also had no issues with OpenElec automounting both internal and external (USB) disks
 
jack1986 said:
What do you mean by "picked up"? How is the drive formatted? OpenELEC should automount compatibly formatted drives to /var/media -- it's worked pretty successfully for me.
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NTFS.

works fine in the PC, and the other NTFS drives work in OpenELEC too - it's just the one, no matter where i plug it in, it just wont mount?
 
Must say I'm impressed.

Got a brand new HP ProLiant ML-110 G6 server here.

Two 500Gb HDD's installed.

First I disabled network boot. Then I setup onboard RAID (RAID1+0)

Then I booted up from the included installation CD. It asked me whether I want to install WIndows Server 2008 from a CD or USB drive.

I selected USB drive.

Then it asked whether I want to use flat files, or .ISO format. I tried ISO first, but unfortunately I renamed the .ISO. So I opted for the flat files option.

It picked up the flat files after I pointed it to the correct directory on the USB stick, and it's busy installing.

I'm impressed. First time I haven't need to cut a Windows installation CD :cool:
 
yeti said:
This all seems like misconfiguration of FreeNAS. While I am not going to sit here and try diagnose these symptoms blindly, the first suggestion I can make confidently is to check the misconfigured permissions. Ensure you have created a group, corresponding users and shared each share with the correct permissions. I already made a .zip of screenshots of my configuration for another user on this forum and this solved his issues by copying (the majority of them) verbatim. Please PM me your email address if you would like me to forward this on to you.
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abs1 said:
Thanks man, I think I followed an anon guide on freenas.org with no user and password required and gave read and write permissions on the raid volume to guest users and guest group, will have a look at your screenshots you suggested will pm you my email.:)
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Got Cifs to work but not nfs, after copying some data to the samba share from windows it would just copy half way and freenas would crash with 100% cpu utilisation.

Unistalled esxi and loaded freenas onto a usb, wow what a difference, everything working liking a dream. Configured my nfs share and copying data to it was a treat, extremeley stable. Reporting service in freenas gui reports everything operating normal. Im achieving a sustained 10MB copy rate but thats my router which needs to be upgraded to gigabit.

Current config: zfs with raid stripe and a cache drive + 8GB ram (2x2tb+250gig+8gigram). Question, should I change my router or just get a switch ?

A personal thanks to Yeti for assisting me, a real forumite of note, I havent given up on esxi though. I have a much more powerfull pc I want to allocate for vmware and future messing around. :)
 
Okay, so I got my 4 x 2TB HDDs (the cheapest place with stock was actually Incredible Connection!), and have built my FreeNAS box. Installation was a breeze, except for actually getting FreeNAS onto a memory stick, which was kind of a bitch -- unetbootin wouldn't work at all with the image for some reason. Anyway. I transferred my 4GB RAM module from my HTPC to this one, which gives me 5GB RAM here. I'll probably get another 4GB and give it to whichever server seems to need it more -- probably FreeNAS. I have all four drives in a raidz in the same zpool.

One proviso: I'm getting some not-great write performance. The drives are Seagate 2TB LPs, which are not exactly speed demons, but hold their own in their class. I am currently moving files from one ZFS file system to another (which requires an actual move and not just a repointing, even though the data is on the same disk). I'm moving about 40GB, and I'm still waiting after about two hours. I haven't been able to do a proper read/write speed test, because this transfer is on-going, but I'm getting consistent write speeds of about 6500kB/s during this operation. Now, I know that any software RAID-like system (like ZFS) is going to add overhead, but are these speeds normal? Has anyone else had performance issues with ZFS on the Microserver?
 
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