ESX 4.1 on HP Proliant DL360 G7 + Smartarray 410i

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• Expansion / Upgrade ProLiant DL380 G5 and ProLiant DL360 G5

  Hi all, we have two servers, Proliant DL380 G5 with SmartArray 400 and Proliant DL360 G5 with SmartArray 200icontroller controller, expand us on the disks, memory and cards network, the problem is that after we see the documentation which is sometimes wrong and don't know not the limitations of each of the parties, the issues are:

  Proliant DL380 G5 SmartArray 400:
  - STORAGE: up to 8 SAS / SATA, not clear what size that can be used with this controller, we understand that up to 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM and maximum 2 TB SAS 7200 RPM, we currently use with 146 GB drives to 10,000 rpm, whose original documentation is the maximum allowed value.
  -MEMORY: Up to 64 GB modules of maximum memory up to 8 GB.
  - NETWORK: update with PCI Express, support cards that I can find are HP NC110T PCI Express and PCI-Express HP NC373 HP NC360T PCI-Express.

  Proliant DL360 G5 SmartArray 200i:

  - STORAGE: up to 4 SAS / SATA controller supports only 200i SmartArray four drives in RAID 0, 1, 1 + 0 if we wanted to expand to six bays that are available on the disk server, it would change the controller and memory. Yet, the size of disk maximum supported based on the documentation is 72 GB SAS and SATA drive 60 GB, but looking it seems as if you agree at least 300 Gb SAS disks at 10 000 rpm and up to 500 GB 7200 RPM.
  - MEMORY: up to 64 GB maximum memory modules up to 8 GB.
  - NETWORK: update with PCI Express, support cards that I can find are HP NC110T PCI Express and PCI-Express HP NC373 HP NC360T PCI-Express.

  This is what I have gathered and what interests me in the expansion and to say that the documentation I found to give the feeling of this conflict, is perhaps by the dates of their procedures, but before you make a payment would guarantee the purchase. Also getting information guides, manuals and forums, I have also consulted compatibiliy HP Proliant Server Guide, so I have consutlado with HP before purchasing, but have yet to receive an answer.

  A greeting and thank you very much

  Hello jranerosc. I think you'd have better luck trying Business Forums of HP. You should get more specific help.

  Have a great day!

• Installation of VMware ESX/ESXI 4.1 on HP Proliant DL360 G4

  Hello

  I think to buy an old HP Proliant DL360 G4 machine with 2 Xeon 3.6 GHz processors and 4 GB of RAM.  I intend to install VMware ESX or ESXI 4.1 on it.

  I read some reviews of VMware and other products of the hypervisor and all say that these 64-bit Xeons have no VT support option and therefore cannot run 64-bit Windows guest OS.

  Since I just use it as test environment learn more about Windows Server 2008.  I would like to know if I can install ESX 4.1 on the HP DL360 G4 and if so, can I install client Server 2008 32-bit Windows OS on top?

  Another machine, that I'm looking is the Dell Poweredge 2850, which has the same processor and roughly the same features as the DL360 G4.  So I want to know what a Xeon with no VT - x 64-bit is limitation of technology with regard to the installation of the virtual machines based on Windows on it.

  Thanks for any help.

  The Xeon 3.6 have VT - X, so you will not be able to run 64-bit OS comments, as you found it- http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=28019.  You would be OK for customers 32 bits, but you would be prevented from running Windows 2008 R2, because it is 64-bit only.   At this point, I wouldn't bother with a test server that cannot run 64-bit guests.  If you want to stick with a server-class machine I keep watch or watch a white box - vm - Help.com - see the list of the white box.

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• HP ProLiant DL360 G5 - should "fully buffered" memory modules ECC?

  Hello

  I hope I'm asking in the right forum, and I hope that my question isn't distracting.

  We have 2 servers ESX 3.5 clocked at 2 servers "HP ProLiant DL360 G5" with 4 GB of RAM each.

  We bought 4 GB of RAM to each server.

  I understand that we need ECC DDR2-667 RAM, but I don't know if "fully buffered" modules more expensive are necessary.

  Someone please have a Board how do I know? Esxcfg-info shows:

  + Host:

  \==+Hardware info:

  .........

  |----Product Name............................................. ProLiant DL360 G5

  ........

  \==+Memory info:

  |----Page Size............................................. 4096 pages

  |----Total Pages........................................... 978518 pages

  |----Free Pages............................................ 457894 pages

  |----Shared Pages.......................................... 417076 pages

  |----Common Pages.......................................... 198808 pages

  |----Heap Size............................................. 7680 pages

  |----Heap Free............................................. 2217 pages

  | - Map Free... pages of 1996

  | - Size of the kernel Code... 1536 pages

  |----System Mem............................................ 45120 pages

  |----Num Nodes............................................. 1 knots

  |----Physical Mem.......................................... 4293222400 bytes

  |----Vmkernel Mem.......................................... 4008009728 bytes

  | - Vmkernel free Mem... 1875533824 bytes

  | - Service Console Mem... 272 MB

  | - Service Console (Cfg) Mem... 272 MB

  \==+Aux source memory Stats:

  | - The physical memory is... 4192600 kilobytes

  | - Service Console memory... 278528 kilobytes

  | - Kernel memory... 3914072 kilobytes

  | - Waived by VMkernel... 4 kilobytes

  | - Mmap thing... kilobytes 26624

  |----Mmap Buddy......................................... 4840 kilobytes

  | - Core region Code... 6144 kilobytes

  | - Benefits of core at the beginning... 3096 KB

  | - Data of kernel and lot... 30720 kilobytes

  |----Other Kernel....................................... 109056 kilobytes

  |----Nonkernel.......................................... 1902012 kilobytes

  |----Free............................................... 1831576 kilobytes

  And unfortunately, there is no "lshw".

  Thank you

  Alex

  Hello

  HP have a few useful pages for their servers, I keep these around as reference, they are called Quickspecs... lists lots of interesting information about the server and its components..., it's the quickspec for the DL360 G5 it seems only the fully buffered collection list... so you may be stuck with requiring that...

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• ProLiant DL360 G8: Missing Base system device driver

  Hello

  I have a HP Proliant DL360 G8 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 server, but when I go to Device Manager I get lack of base system device driver. Please I need know what driver to install.

  Properties of the device:

  Hardware LDS:

  PCI\VEN_8086 & DEV_0E26 & SUBSYS_18A8103C & REV_04

  PCI\VEN_8086 & DEV_0E26 & SUBSYS_18A8103C

  PCI\VEN_8086 & DEV_0E26 & CC_088000

  PCI\VEN_8086 & DEV_0E26 & CC_0880

  Location information:

  PCI bus 0, device 4, function 4

  Compatible IDs:

  PCI\VEN_8086 & DEV_0E24 & REV_04

  PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_0E24

  PCI VEN_8086 & CC_088000

  PCI VEN_8086 & CC_0880

  PCI\VEN_8086

  PCI\CC_088000

  PCI\CC_0880

  Best regards

  Hi Rubendiazmarino,

  Try these drivers for your server:

  • HP ProLiant iLO 3/4 Management Controller Driver Package for Windows Server 2008/2012 X 64 (U.S., International)
  • HP ProLiant iLO 3/4 Channel Interface Driver for Windows X 64 (U.S., International)
  • Handset identifier Chipset for Windows Server 2008 R2 (American International)

  After installation reboot, your server for these driver to work.

  Yours faithfully,

  Ryan

• HP Proliant DL360 G6 ESXi5.0 support?

  Hello world

  I have HP Proliant DL360 G6 does ESXi5.0.Our Support plan is to add 2 HP Proliant DL360 G6 in the cluster having

  already 2 host with HP Proliant DL380 G7 model. Any problem by adding in theCluster, VMotion, HA and DRS.

  Details of the server in the Cluster currently: -.

  2 Server HP Proliant DL380 G7
  CPU Cores 8 GHz CPUsx2.665
  Processor type:-Intel Xeon E5640 CPU @2. 67 GHz

  2Server need to added in the cluster;

  HP Proliant DL360 G6
  CPU Cores 8 x 2.4 GHz processors
  Processor Intel (r) Xeon (R) CPU [email protected] GHZ type

  Any help on this will be appreciated.

  It should work perfectly with the cluster level setting the appropriate CVS (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003212)

  André

• Problem with optical drive SATA with ESX 3.5 on HP Proliant ML 350

  Recently installed ESX 3.5 on 60 day trial on the new server, HP Proliant ML350 G5, found that what connection by customer VMWare Inf as not able to see the host Sata optical drive, ditto even VMS applies when creating new virtual machines, must use emulated local laptop computer client IDE drive to see the ISO image.

  Connected call with HP and they came with http://tinyrul.com/qpzrb5 article which indicates the known problem though on DL385 - "HP works with VMware to correct the incompatibility with the SATA device driver that is causing the problem with the optical CD/DVD drive.

  Another link on the same issue http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/drivercd/esx350-ahci-350.1.2-146051.html

  I asked HP if possible buy an IDE DVD player but my image processor designed to work only with this model.  Then appears stuffed that not a not support contract with VMWare to connect problem I'm have sent customer service online application to see if they can help you

  popular ideas

  Regarding the browser data store.  Toggle the display of data warehouses in the vi client.  Or press ctrl-shift-d.  Here, right-click on your data store, and then select Browse datastore.  When that opens, add at the top of your taskbar, next to the folder icon, is a download icon, a disc with an arrow.  This will allow you to download files to your data store.  Navigate to a folder in your data store and download the ISO to.

  It is a roundabout process, but will work if other methods fail.  With the ILO.  You can map your local cd through the ILO on a drive on the local ESX host.  This will make your local client drive, walk of the esx.  With one side mounted ESX host, in the settings of your virtual machine, you can edit the cd and this time, instead of customer, you can select the host device.

  -KjB

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• HP proliant DL360 G3 ESXi Question

  I bought a HP proliant DL 360 G3 for my lab and so far have been able to install ESXi and it stand up a race.  I can get to it by the client, but the problem is to create a new virtual machine... Windows Setup said that he did not find any hard disk?  ESXi reades the data store, then why can not the windows install, see hard drives?  What should I do to fix this?  Thanks in advance.

  The XP cd does not have the SCSI drivers to recognize the Buslogic or LSI SCSC automatons used in its ESX virtual machines. If you have created your VM with a type of buslogic SCSI adapter, you will need to download an image of a diskette of drivers from the link below.

  http://www.VMware.com/download/server/drivers_tools.html

  Then

  (1) (copy the file FLP to your ESX Server (you can put it on the VMFS data store).)

  (2) change your VM and change the diskette to use an image file. Then navigate to the file FLP. Make sure that the connected to the power supply is turned on.

  (3) turn on your virtual machine. During the installation of Windows at the right time, press F6 to add drivers for storage and then load the driver for the drive of the virtual machine.

  If you use the controller logic LSI - see this link - http://virtrix.blogspot.com/2007/09/vmware-installing-windows-xp-on-esx.html

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• Notice of default of table when you run Esx 3.5i on HP Proliant Server

  Hi all.

  I'm sure this must have been invited several times already, but I sent several hours looking and reading and have not found an answer that is even close.

  I have several DL380G5 servers HP integrated VMWare Esx 3.5i.

  I have a stand-alone server running HP SIM 5.3.

  HP SIM detects the ESXi server and the virtual machine, but if I pull a car on one of the table I get no notification of the faliure.

  How you be notified on hardware failures when running ESX 3.5i?

  I enabled SNMP on my ESX 3.5i server according to the documentation, but there is still no info on the table and the failed drive.

  HPSIM reports the following information about the server, which I believe indicates HPSIM is in talks with ESX 3.5i via SNMP

  Type of system	Server
  Subtype of system	HP ProLiant, x 86 system, VMware ESX host, embedded, virtual machine host
  Product model	ProLiant DL380 G5
  Description of the material	ESX1
  OS name	VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 build-153875
  OS type	Hypervisor
  OS version	3.5.0
  Description of the OS	#1 SMP Release build-153875, March 13, 2009 17:29
  Management protocols	WBEM:1.0

  By clicking on the State of health provides information on Fans, memory, power and CPU.

  Do I have to install some sort of agent in ESX 3.5i to report on events from an array P400 controller?

  Thank you very much

  have you seen HP VMware ESXi management environment , it may be of some use.

• HP ProLiant DL360 G6: HP ProLiant DL360 G6, recommendations of Pci-e card

  Hi, I like to try this server friendly hp (with WIN7) for music production and need some Pci-e cards. Need to FireWire (half Pci-e slot) and connection for 2 monitor machine... maybe better graphics (size Pci - e) card with the digital (Dvi or something like that). I'm not sure that I can get 2 monitor to this DL360 G6 without the better graphics card?

  Well, I can buy some FireWire or do I HP stuff, ideas? FireWire 400 is okay, enough for my project

  And what Pci-e-type graphics card should work in this machine? I don't need a lot of power, only 2 monitor with 1920 x 1080 resolution.

  -Aclac

  And finally... I got card (FireWire 1394 IEEE 1394 VIA VT6315) in trials. Now Win7 running with 2 monitor and my audio interface (RME ff800) has connected through this new card. I have tested only 8 hours, but everything seems to be ok. Maybe, maybe soon I turn my studio with this material huge serverbased

• ESX 4.1 on HP ProLiant GL350 g6

  I have problems esx to use excess space on my raid array.  Last weekend, I added a few additional commands and expanded the chart for a total of 1.91 TB of DAS in the server.   I've done this earlier and remembered it was pretty easily.  This time, not so much.  Once I had finished and restarted esx see CT 1.91 but when you add the screen space is empty.  I've included a few screenshots for reference.

  Any thoughts or ideas?

  I think that it's your drive is > 2 TB...

  VMFS supports max lun size in esx 4.x (2 to-512bytes).

  I understand that you have 8 GB of linux and other partitions... but I think he crossed the sector boundary.

• HP ProLiant Gen9 notice - SmartArray Firmware update

  Hi all

  We examined the underside view of HP on the Smart Array Gen9 servers controllers.
  http://h20566.www2.HPE.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docid=c04805565 & JumpID = em_alerts_us-us_Sep15_xbu_all_all_2361702_2272...
  

  
  The Advisory States:

  
  A HP ProLiant Gen9 server may stop responding and displays when restarting, the following 1719 POST error message:
  1719 slot 0 drive Array - a default controller event took place before this power. (Locking previous code = 0x13)

  Even if we have not seen all the failures, we started to test the firmware update (3.02) and it completely bombed our 1st server. It is stuck at the STATION.  We had the Linux guys perform the upgrade on server here and although it seems to have successfully applied, the version of the firmware never changed to 3.02. We have a box to open with HP and are waiting for your comments, but in the meantime, I wanted to see if someone else has eliminated this FW update to their servers ESXi5.5 Gen9 with Smart Array controller.

  Any comment is appreciated.

  Just a follow-up here...

  The issue has been isolated to SmartArray P440 with SAS 12 G expansion card. The patch has been updated the SmartArray both the Expander card firmware at the same time. The only P440 caused our system to not POST firmware update

  Thank you

  KeV

• ESX comments really slow but slow all the way

  Hello!

  I have here two ESX 3.5U4 on HP ProLiant DL360 G5 with 8 x 2 GHz (Xeon E5405) and 32 GB of RAM each.

  A long time ago a WSUS 3.0SP1 has been installed on a MS Windows Server 2003 SP2 x 86 on the ESX Cluster. Because the performance was bugs me for a long time I put the RAM from 512 MB to 2 GB and added the 2nd vCPU and stop the "Windows Internal Database", which was used by the WSUS before. Now he runs a SQL Express, which also hosts the DB for a G AV-database server. I also 'optimized' the RAM and the CPU of the SQL Server, but again, the machine is too slow that it was before. Start the Server 2003 OS takes like forever (approx. 5-7 minutes) and Manager open tasks or window Explorer takes much longer than it should take. The guest has nothing to do as well as the ESX servers are about 30% used each on the CPU and RAM

  Attached you will find the vmx configuration file. Is there something configured wrong or is it windows that needs more cleaning?

  Kind regards

  Christian Arnold

  Looks like the problem was within the limit of memory at low altitude, if you had actually 384 MB only.
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• How to view the ESX host name as well as the information on the material (see text)

  I would like to see the ESX host name in the first column.

  Is there a better way to do it?

  Any help is very appreciated.  Thank you

  The section of my script for the hardware looks like this:

  #######################
  # VMware ESX hardware #.
  #######################
  Get-VMHost | Get-View | ForEach-Object {$_.} Summary.Hardware} | Select-object name vendor, model, MemorySize, CpuModel, CpuMhz, NumCpuPkgs, NumCpuCores, NumCpuThreads, NumNics, NumHBAs | ConvertTo-Html-title "Configuration of VMware ESX server Hardware" - body "< H2 > VMware ESX server Hardware configuration." "< / H2 > ' | Out-file - add $filelocation

  And My on put currently looks like this:

  (I want to see the name of the ESX host as the first column)

  Hardware configuration of VMware ESX server.

  Name of the vendor	Model	MemorySize	CpuModel	CpuMhz	NumCpuPkgs	NumCpuCores	NumCpuThreads	NumNics	NumHBAs
  HP	ProLiant DL360 G7	34348974080	Intel Xeon E5640 CPU @ 2.67GHz	2666	2	8	16	4	3
  HP	ProLiant DL360 G7	34348974080	Intel Xeon E5640 CPU @ 2.67GHz	2666	2	8	16	4	3
  HP	ProLiant BL460c G6	25758969856	Intel Xeon E5540 2.53 GHz CPU	2533	1	4	8	8	3
  HP	ProLiant BL460c G6	25758969856	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5570 @ 2.93 GHz	2933	1	4	8	8	3
  HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2
  HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2
  HP	ProLiant BL490c G7	137428156416	Xeon of Intel (r) CPU X 5675 3.07 GHz	3066	2	12	24	4	2

  Not a more elegant solution, but it should produce the desired result

  &{foreach ($esx in Get-VMHost){
    ForEach-Object { $esx.ExtensionData.Summary.Hardware } |
    Select-object @{N="ESX Name";E={$esx.Name}},Vendor, Model, MemorySize, CpuModel, CpuMhz, NumCpuPkgs, NumCpuCores, NumCpuThreads, NumNics, NumHBAs}} |ConvertTo-Html -title "VMware ESX server Hardware configuration" -body "
  VMware ESX server Hardware configuration.
  " |
  Out-File -Append $filelocation
  

• ESX iSCSI &amp; LACP

  I have a few questions I wanted to ask and try to learn before you start this project. Currently, we have two ESX servers, located on a single switch. Our virtual machines use different VLANS by customer.

  Here is going to be our new configuration I have planned:

  • (1) HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 iSCSI SAN
  • (2) cisco/Linksys SRW2024P switches (supported VLAN, LAG, LACP, frames Jumbo)
  • (3) HP Proliant DL360 G6 servers
  • Each server has 3 network cards
  • (2) routers of Sonicwall

  Exactly how do redunandcy off the iSCSI traffic? Using LACP on the switches I would connect the right set of themselves? So 1 Port SW1 goes to SW2 Port 1 and the same for Port 2.

  Then I would be on the side of ESX team two NICs together for iSCSI traffic. I would use IP Hash. I would like to connect NIC #1 to SW1 and NIC #2 in SW2. So, technically, I could unplug on NIC #1 and virtual machines must be able to run because of the several paths right?

  If I'm away, please let me know. I want to be able to lose a single switch, losing a NIC and continue to operate without a hiccup.

  Hello

  Attach a large document to help you implement the P2000 with vSphere.

  It is generally recommended to use multiple paths instead of collage/team.