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HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 early system initialization hangs on 90%

just unboxed a brand new HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 Server. I can reach the iLO webinterface but the Server hangs on the early system initialization on 90 % with the status code 0114. I did not find any ...
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HP DL360p Gen8 for low latency trading - what to upgrade? [closed]

I'm using HP DL360p Gen8 for low latency trading (but not ultra-low-latency!). It means that i'm working in frame about "10+ microseconds" and i don't care about "1-5 microsecond" or nanoseconds. I ...
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Refresh a specific page in ilo 4

I use iLo 4 for my HP dl380 gen 8. I access iLo webpage using internet explorer 10. (Although I would gladly use another browser if anyone can recommend a better one for iLo access). How can I ...
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Graphing temperature over time for HP iLo 4

Server: HP DL380p Gen 8, running latest iLo 4. One sensor, Sensor #25 for the HD Controller, tends to run a bit hot when compared to the other sensors. It tends to read 75 C. Caution temp is 100 C. ...
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DL380 G4 dead after erasing NVRAM

Got a used HP ProLiant DL380 G4 server. It was at least able to start from an Ubuntu live CD a few days ago. When I connected the iLO-port to a router with DHCP server iLO 1.62 was accessibly using ...
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HP ProLiant DL360 G7 hangs at “Power and Thermal Calibration” screen

I have a new HP ProLiant DL360 G7 system that is exhibiting a difficult-to-reproduce issue. The server randomly hangs at the "Power and Thermal Calibration in Progress..." screen during the POST ...
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How do I upgrade my HP ProLiant ML150 G6 server RAM?

I want to upgrade the RAM on two HP ProLiant ML150 G6. They currently have 2 dimms labeled 2GB 2RX8 PC3-10600E-9-10-E0. I believe these are UDIMMs? The servers have a total of 12 memory slots. In ...
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How to reset password for HP Proliant ML330 G6

We have HP Proliant ML330 G6 and its BIOS is closed with password. Password is already forgotten and we can't get there. Is there any way to crack or reset a password at this box?
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moving raid 10 to another identical server both on Smart Array 6i controllers

I have dead HP DL 380G4 with RAID 1+0 with 1 logical volume from 4x72GB drives on built-in Smart Array 6i 128Mb BBWC. It was shut down properly. It seems it was usual death for Proliant with ILO led ...
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What is the name of this screw? (from HP ProLiant quick-deploy rail kits) [closed]

I need the name of the screw for the HP quick deploy rail kit. The screw clicks into the square holes of the rack. It is a Gen4 Rail kit but the screw is like the Gen8 Rail kit ones. I called HP ...
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ProLiant DL360 ASR

I have several ASR events on my DL360 G4p without any reason. There is nothing in the log file. I installed a remote syslog server. There I only see the rebooting messages. In the iLO nothing is ...
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How to make my HP server boot faster?

I have an HP ProLiant DL370 G6 server that I am using as a workstation. It takes 60 seconds during reboot and cold boot before screens post with a discrete Radeon HD6xxx GPU. What can I do to make ...
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How to get HP ASM to work under Xen Hypervisor?

I have a HP DL560, currently running Debian Squeeze as dom0 on Xen Hypervisor, and the fans constantly run at 100%. In the past this wasn't a problem because I could install HP's ASM which includes ...
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HP ProLiant DL360 G5 fails to reboot

Some history of this also available here. As of my latest update on the forum linked above, now cold reboot as well as hard reset and following boot for my proliant dl360 g5 works as expected and ...
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HP ESXi WBEM Agent Not Showing Power Supply Data

Server: HP ProLiant DL 380 G5 ESXi: 5.0.0 U1 (HP Custom Image) HP SIM: 7.1 (CentOS 6.3 VM) I have my basic hardware monitoring up and running. I cannot see events for power supply failure within HP ...
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Uncorrectable machine check

I am experiencing rare but real unrecoverable machine checks on HP DL370 G6 dual-core Xeon server. I ran memtest86+ before, and ran CPU-intensive operations without any problems. In your opinion, ...
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HP Proliant DL160 G6 - Hardware RAID card to get? [closed]

I have bought a DL160 G6 server (Product number: 490427R-001 ) and it does not come with a hardware RAID card. I am trying to set up a VMWare Esxi server and as such I would need a hardware RAID card. ...
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What's so wrong with the ML350 G5?

It seems there a number of differences between the HP ML350 G5 and G6 G6 has more RAM slots G6 runs leaner, cooler, and quieter When considering an equally spec'd G6 (CPUs, RAM, HD), the G6 is 3x ...
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Which version of SmartStart supports HP DL120 G6?

Version 8.70 for example does not support it - minimum 120G7. So cannot reinstall Windows Server on the old G6 here...
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CentOS 6.2 Server hangs

I have a problem with Centos 6.2 server that is running on an HP Proliang DL380 G4 server where I run a Public FTP Service. The system runs for about a day and then it suddenly hangs, and I cant ...
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HP ProLiant DL360 G6 reporting missing fan

I have several refurbished HP ProLiant DL360 G6 servers and several of the systems are reporting fan failures - possibly incorrectly - on fan #2. When running: hpasmcli -s 'SHOW FANS' I get the ...
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HP DL385 Base System Device

I have an HP DL385 with two Operon 280 CPUs and 16 GB of RAM running Windows Server 2003 R2 64 bit. Windows device manager show a yellow question mark for the Base System Device. This device is the ...
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P4300 G2 SAN FAN Header Connections

I've recently had to replace the System Board on my P4300 G2 SAN due to a failure to find a boot drive. Unfortunately after replacing this it won't boot past the POST screen, it identifies that there ...
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How do I get my HP servers to email me when a drive fails?

Ideally, with as simple of install as possible and without requiring rebooting the servers. Mostly for DL380 G5's if it helps. Thanks.
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HP ProLiant DL180 G6 Fan Noise?

Recently i did bought an HP ProLiant DL180 G6 Everything is OK except fan noise , it's too loud. I did some research but found nothing useful , I just wanted to know if there is anything I can do ...
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HP DL380 G3 2U For Basic Web Server in 2012

I have an opportunity to pick up a used HP DL380 G3 2U for $100. I'm looking for a basic entry level web server that I can host a small - medium size website on and more or less learn the ins and outs ...
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Controlling HP ProLiant DL380 G6/G7 fan speed

I'm having fan speeds and noise level issues from my most recent batch of HP ProLiant DL380 G7 servers. Most of the systems are nearly silent with low fan speeds (as reported by hplog -f). The ...
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is there any conflict between HP blade system ProLiant BL680c G5 hardware and Redhat Linux Enterprise 5.5 or 6

We're going to install Linux Red Hat enterprise 5.5 on HP blade server that is connected to a part of SAN storage MSA 2000. I've tested both marked and unmarked sda option in partitioning. I did this ...
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How to read HP's manual about ram modules?

On page 48 in this user guide, it is explained in which order memory modules should be installed for an HP DL385 server with AMD Opteron CPUs. There are 12 banks per CPU, and I have 6 x 4GB + 2 x 2GB ...
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HP ProLiant ML370 G6 vs Dell Poweredge T710 [closed]

I'm looking of replacing our old ML350 G5 tower server which is used as a development system (so it's not constantly powered on and sits besides my desk). Noise levels from the old ML350 G5 were ok, ...
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Proliant ML370 G5 and “dongle” removal

Recently I've bought a Proliant ML370 G5 in tower case. After I got it the seller asked me to remove the "dongle" from it and return it back to him. The problem is I can't locate the "dongle" thing in ...
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Which controller should I buy for a SCSI-3 tape drive? [closed]

I have a HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960, which have a SCSI-3 interface. It is a quite old tape drive, so which SCSI controller should I buy? Update It is for PCI or PCI-X and the server is running ...
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HP ProLiant system preparation/deployment techniques (Array, BIOS, firmware, etc.)

I spend a lot of my time with HP ProLiant systems and Linux installations. Due to the nature of the business I work in, I don't have the luxury of being able to deploy large numbers of identical ...
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HP Proliant DL380 G4 - Can this server still perform in 2011?

Can the HP Proliant DL380 G4 series server still perform at high a quality in the 2011 IT world? This may sound like a weird question but we are a very small company whose primary business is NOT IT ...
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Can Cisco MCS 7845 I2 K9 server be repurposed for Ubuntu Cloud?

This may be a stupid question but you never know with proprietary equipment. We trying to build an internal development Ubuntu Cloud and looking for cheap hardware to use. It looks like there are ...
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Incredible low disk performance on HP DL385 G7

As a test of the Opteron processor family, I bought a HP DL385 G7 6128 with HP Smart Array P410i Controller - no memory. The machine has 20GB ram 2x146GB 15k rpm SAS + 2x250GB SATA2, both in Raid 1 ...
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Monitoring HP and Dell hardware in Gentoo

I'm working in an environment that features a large number of Gentoo servers running on HP ProLiant and Dell PowerEdge equipment. While I've moved some of these systems to RedHat or CentOS for ...
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RAID Array performance on an HP Proliant ML350 G5 Smart Array E200i

We have a client who is complaining about performance of an application which utilizes an MS SQL database. They do not believe the performance issues are the fault of the application itself. The ...