HP MicroServer – Marjorie getting ready for ESXi 4.1
Check out our videos of our new HP MicroServer, we bought it yesterday and it got delivered today so we’re all excited here at the Bladewatch residence, I’ve got videos of the box being opened and it’s contents as we ordered the MicroServer bundle including the server itself, a DVD Writer drive, 4GB memory and a USB stick with ESXI on it so we have in essence a VMware server in a MicroServer kit.
The url for the quickspecs can be found here and we ordered the server direct from here.
Our unopened HP MicroServer:
The box being opened:
I’ll put together a brief document explaining how to fit everything in and some set up tips but the install guide was actually quite good, more content to follow. We’re hoping to plug it in and leave it on to see how it performs, on first impressions, it’s quite quiet and fast enough so far so good.
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My Microserver arrived yesterday, as I already have a vsphere home lab on a Lenovo TS200, I purchased this more for curiosity and for a hopefully reliable solution to my Buffalo Terastation which was not happy after a power surge trashed the raid array. Eventually leading to being the main storage for home media
FreeNAS (which can be installed on a USB and mounted on the internal USB socket) & maybe offer storage to the vsphere lab using the iSCSI initiator
Or maybe a Windows based server such as SBS or Home Server?
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