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Three top uses for the HP Proliant MicroServer

I’ve been speaking to more and more colleagues who’ve opted to purchase the HP Proliant MicroServer for a number of reasons, if you haven’t come across one, think of a three Mac Mini’s sitting on top of each other, featuring an AMD processor, a few GB of memory and space for four full height 3.5 [...] [...]

HP Proliant MicroServer underpins the business platform

http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/drishti-soft-certifies-hp-proliant-microserver-for-distributed-deployment-of-ameyo-149475055.html Drishti-Soft certifies HP ProLiant MicroServer for deployment of Ameyo Communications Suite for distributed businesses. The award winning Customer Interaction Management Solution is a robust platform and requires only matching hardware server as a technology base for processing. The server from Hewlett-Packard is a cost effective starter server for businesses, it is designed for small and SOHO [...] [...]

HP Proliant MicroServer or ML Series which for my first server?

I have been looking at another server for Bladewatch after HP kindly sent us a new style HP Proliant MicroServer to play with (the N40L G7 edition to be precise).  During this research for a new server I was comparing features of the HP Proliant MicroServer and their entry level HP Proliant ML series server.  [...] [...]

What options can I get for the HP MicroServer and what would I recommend?

The standard MicroServer comes with a hard drive, memory, network port and USB so that you can connect your USB DVD drive to load the operating system or run FreeNAS or ESXi, none of the options I have listed below are necessary to get started, though I did find having the DVD drive that bit [...] [...]

What’s in the box? (HP Proliant MicroServer N40L)

HP very kindly shipped us (658553-421) for us to test and see what we thought of it.  This is the G7 edition featuring the updated AMD N40L processor, it comes with 2GB The specs are here: So what’s in the box? HP Proliant MicroServer European power cable US power cable Documentation and DVD with documentation So what is included inside the MicroServer: 1x [...] [...]

HP Proliant MicroServer Flickr feed

I’ve put together the current photos I have of our new HP Proliant MicroServer, they live here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24561473@N00/sets/72157628721146099/ This will be updated as we go along and will include everything from what you get in the box, through to fitting a disk, plugging it in and setting it up. [...]

What operating systems on a HP Proliant MicroServer

The HP Proliant MicroServer supports the following Operating Systems (according to the HP Support site, see screenshot below): Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Foundation Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Small Business Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86-64) However I’ve also got colleagues running the following without issue: VMware ESXi 5 [...] [...]

Thank you HP for our new HP Proliant MicroServer! (N40L)

This week was a milestone at Bladewatch.com, HP kindly sent us one of their latest HP MicroServers which is very cool and very kind of them. We openly thank them for doing this, it is very much appreciated. Over the next few weeks we therefore plan to put some exclusive content together about the HP MicroServer. [...] [...]