- #ILO 4 ADVANCED TRIAL INSTALL#
- #ILO 4 ADVANCED TRIAL UPDATE#
- #ILO 4 ADVANCED TRIAL UPGRADE#
- #ILO 4 ADVANCED TRIAL TRIAL#
Longer term, with the former VMware “ $25 server” being converted to EdgeLinux (from the makers of the Antsle servers we wrote about here and here), I will probably have this box serve as my in-home vSphere / ESXi system. Linux with iPerf or the like should be a good endpoint, and with a Thunderbolt 3-to-NBase-T adapter and an economical NBase-T/10G switch to work with, it should be compact and functional.
#ILO 4 ADVANCED TRIAL INSTALL#
In the near term, I’m planning to install the Aquantia AQN-107 10GBase-T/NBase-T adapter and use it to test a couple of new devices in the home lab. I didn’t want to bother with Java either, so I accessed ILO from Microsoft Edge and used the. In short, it doesn’t work unless you install a plugin to handle the.
NET-based remote console and Chrome browser. One quirk I ran into was with regard to the.
#ILO 4 ADVANCED TRIAL TRIAL#
Additionally, I got a free 60-day trial license for ILO 4 Advanced from HPE. With the switch connected to our upstream POE switch and the Microserver’s three network ports (two gigabit LAN, one ILO) connected to the switch, I upgraded the firmware on all three components and installed CentOS 7 from the latest ISO image via external USB flash drive. (Unlike the computer systems, HPE’s networking gear carries a lifetime limited warranty and free access to firmware updates.) So I gathered the latest BIOS, the ILO 4 firmware for out-of-band management, and the latest firmware for the PS1810-8G switch that this system will be connected to. Luckily (and I say that sadly), some of the critical vulnerabilities around Intel microcode in the past year led to the most recent Microserver Gen8 BIOS being considered critical. There are dubious workarounds, but it’s more of a pain than for any other mainstream vendor.
#ILO 4 ADVANCED TRIAL UPDATE#
This gets complicated with HPE gear, as they decided to restrict all but “critical” BIOS update to customers with active support contracts or warranties. This could include the lights-out management, the system BIOS itself, drive controllers, optical drives, etc.
#ILO 4 ADVANCED TRIAL UPGRADE#
One of the first things I do when building or populating a system is to upgrade any applicable firmware on the system.
But for VMware or appliance-type platforms, or for light use Linux, the MicroSD should be enough. Like the previous Microservers, the Gen8 offers an internal USB port, but Gen8 adds a MicroSD slot which may be less likely to snap off during maintenance. If I were running a heavy duty Windows or Linux server on this machine, I’d probably either put an SSD on a PCIe carrier card or use the optical drive SATA connector on the board to mount a boot drive in the optical bay. I installed a 32GB Micro-SD card for OS boot. You can add a P222 Smart Controller to provide battery-backed cache and expanded RAID options these can be had for as low as $25 on eBay. According to the specs, the first two bays are 6gbit SATA and the last two bays are 3gbit SATA. There’s a low profile slot at the top suitable for an optical drive, or a hard drive carrier. The system also shipped with a single 500GB SATA drive and three empty trays for expansion, connected to the onboard B120i storage controller. The system arrived with 16GB of memory, which is the maximum supported with this generation of processor and a two-DIMM-slot motherboard (the CPU will handle 32GB but no more than 8GB per DIMM, and the Memphis Electronics 16GB DDR3 DIMMs require a newer generation of CPU). CPU speed is reasonable, power is within the envelope for this system’s cooling capacity, and the price didn’t turn out too bad (although it was almost twice as much a year and a half ago).
Since we didn’t have a use case in mind for this, we went for the E3-1265L v2 processor. Stock processor options for the HP Microserver Gen8īut since we’re not worried about the warranty and do want a bit more power, we looked at the following options for a CPU upgrade.
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