Hi i have this HP Proliant DL380 G5 server (motherboard 013096-001)
I m upgrading it but i have problems with it and some questions...
Xeon 5160 (x2) -> Xeon L5420 (x2)
4gb Ram -> 64Gb ram
....I installed L5420 but it didnt post so i might need to update BIOS
Where i can download bios? Is it possible to update it throught iLO? Or boot from usb? Can the motherboard support new CPUs (L5420)???
I have an old PC but I need to make a server how can I make it. Can anyone guide me .
I read through and I think this is allowed. I'm not trying to sell this server rack I got today on this sub. I don't want to ship it. I'm looking for insight as to what type of brick- and- mortar businesses might be interested in this. I called some pawn shops and nobody wants it. Looks like they go for a couple hundred dollars new on Amazon and the house is was working on asked me to haul it away. Hate to throw away money. Delete if I'm breaking the rules I don't know anything about this kind of stuff
Help. I took those pins out to change the fan but I can't put them back.
Hey everyone,
I'm hunting for a storage VPS or hosting provider with large HDD capacity (or multiple servers). Important: I'm not looking for object storage – I need actual block/file storage I can mount and use normally.
My current cheapest find: $1.30/TB (~€1.11/TB)
Has anyone found something more affordable from a reputable, official provider? Private setups aren't an option for me.
Would love to hear what you're using or what you've come across!
Over the last decade I’ve been playing with dozens of servers from multiple providers. These are the steps I’ve been perfecting to get up to speed fast and feel right at home on a new machine. Wrote it down here mostly as a personal reference, but hopefully useful to someone else too.
Hello everyone my name is cadence and I'm slightly north of seattle wondering how I can get into working in servers, I don't really mind the position due to not having much actual professional experience in the field, I've experimented with nas servers and home brew stuff before, other than that I have no experience in the field. If anyone here is in my area and works in the field I would love to connect!
this will be used in heavy ai tasks, not training tho (not necessarily)
ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI II
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5955Wx 16 Core 32 Thread Up To 4.5Ghz Processor
FOUR AUROS rtx 3090 24GB (96GB VRAM TOTAL)
TWO Corsair AX1600i dual psu setup(3200W)
EIGHT ECC Registered RAM 16GB DDR4
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB
worried about racking and internal water cooling. the server room is 24/7 air conditioned and electricity part is well taken care of.
if anyone has experience, please suggest me what to do.
When I explain that I process the video stream using OCR and output the text via SSH, people often ask me, “Why do you need to do that? Just use Serial-over-LAN or IPMI.”
Okay—I’m installing the standard Debian netinst ISO on my computer, booting up, and expecting to see the installer menu via the serial console. Instead, I see nothing. Why? The installer typically defaults to displaying the image on VGA/HDMI. To enable `console=ttyS0`, I need to interact with the boot menu... which is currently only visible on the video output, which I can’t see. To get the serial port working, I first need access to the video output.
“Or maybe the iLO/iDRAC serial port?” The only problem is that the iLO/iDRAC serial console only works if the BIOS is already configured to redirect to the serial port, the COM port is known, and the baud rate is known—and you need a video display to enable this.
Okay, let’s say we’ve all managed to install Debian somehow. Now I want to run a command in the console without a display. What do I need to do? That’s right—the `console=ttyS0` parameter in GRUB, running `getty` on ttyS0, the correct baud rate, and serial port redirection enabled in the BIOS. Where do I configure all of this? During installation or on an already installed system. If I haven’t done this beforehand, then: SSH may be unavailable, the serial port won’t respond, and the command can’t be executed.
In USBridge-KVM 2.0, the BIOS-in-Terminal feature does not have these drawbacks. For the target server, USBridge is simply a standard monitor and keyboard connected to the HDMI and USB ports.
| Criterion | Integrated BMC (iDRAC/iLO) | Serial Console (COM/SoL) | USBridge (with offline OCR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vendor lock-in | Complete (Dell/HP/etc.) | No | No (works with any hardware) |
| Requires pre-configuration? | No | Yes (in the BIOS and OS) | No (plug and play) |
| UI Requirements | Heavy Web GUI / Java | Terminal (CLI) | Standard SSH client (CLI) |
| Power Management | Yes | No (PDU required) | Yes (module included) |
| Virtual Media (ISO) | Yes (often licensed) | No | Yes (out-of-the-box) |
The KVM captures the “raw” video signal directly from the HDMI port. The server outputs this image regardless of the OS settings. A built-in chip (RK3566) on the KVM itself analyzes the video stream and recognizes text characters on the BIOS screen in real time, completely offline. Type `ssh user@usbridge` in your usual terminal to receive a text stream. Key presses are emulated back to the server as signals from a physical USB keyboard. It doesn’t matter what hardware you’re using—whether it’s a latest-generation server, an old industrial PC, or a custom-built system.
How do you handle issues with headless servers when the default settings stop working? I'd be interested to hear what configurations others use.
Buddy of mine is going to be getting this pallet from work. We’re trying to identify the server but I can’t quite find the specifics. Looks like it might be a Dell Poweredge of some sort. But I can’t quite nail down the same layout of the I/O.
Dear all.
I am currently building my server rack for hime use. I have bought a LogiLink FAU04FB 19 for cooling my Unifi units. But where should I install it - which high? on top,, bottom or right at the PoE Switches? it has a compressor integrated for cooling, the airflow isn't as a classic fan. But there are 4 of them.
Many thanks in advance!
I think about the last time I put a server together, might have been 2020. It was pretty simple back then. Intel server boards. Intel Cpus. The Adaptec RAID controllers. At this point, the landscape has changed. It seems like about the only sensible thing to do is go with one of the big 3. Either Dell, Lenovo or HPE.
I'm not looking for much. No SQL. No databases. Nothing server intensive. Just a basic file server for 15 workstations. Not sure what to do about the hard drive subsystem. I'd like to find a server that could handle 2 NVMe drives in a software RAID 1, but I'm not even sure if that's possible.
Any recommendations on which one of the big 3? Any recommendations on hard drive subsystems?
As the title states, i've inherrited an IBM 9406M Storage Server (edit: disregard the title, i was wrong). Possibly two of those but i wasnt able to take a look at the second unit yet. Besides these two 9406's there are also two 7014 server racks (i suppose) with various equipment inside of them. What could i possibly still do with this hardware or will anyone still buy this? If so, where will my luck be the highest to sell this. As of now i havent tested it but i suppose everything is in working order with the needed cables being there too. Any insight to this will be greatly appreciated.
I’m needing 12 power cords will need more in the future so buying 24 cords I’m looking to spend less per cord where I usually go it’s $5.99 a cord and that’s $72 alone where should I buy power cords at?
Lately I’ve been noticing that server performance can feel completely different even when the specs look similar on paper.
I had two systems recently with almost the same RAM and CPU allocation, but one felt smooth all day while the other randomly slowed down during certain hours.
Made me curious how people here usually evaluate a server after deployment.
Do you mostly pay attention to:
Or do you just know pretty quickly when something “feels off”?
Interested to hear what experienced people usually look for first.
Kioxia and Dell somehow managed to cram nearly 10PB of flash storage into a single 2U server using 40 absurdly massive 245.76TB NVMe SSDs. At this point, AI infrastructure is starting to sound fake. The wild part is that it is still air cooled, and Kioxia claims matching the same capacity with smaller drives would require seven more servers and 280 additional SSDs. Storage may quietly be becoming just as important as GPUs in the AI arms race.
I'm working on a C++ authentication server for my desktop application. I intend to have Cloudflare behind it, and I'm going insane and spiraling over the same issues I'm starting to think I just cannot mitigate at the application level.
It currently goes like this:
Now, I obviously need to put a limit to how much the ipMap grows, I've decided I can store 100k IPs. If my ipMap fills because the DDos attack is making 200k requests - what should I do then? I cannot do anything to protect the server and allow legit users to authenticate?
Because the only thing that I can see is: if the map fills, drop every request that comes in. But isn't that then a successful DDOs because legit clients will be dropped as well?
Same concept I cannot understand applies for global rate limiter with the toke bucket: if my server has 500 tokens per second capped at 500, isn't enough for the attacker to make 500 requests per second to lock everybody else out?
Are these the normal expected speeds or are they running at a lower speed because they're not HP-branded dimms?
The system is a DL380 Gen9 with a single E5-2660 V4. I do have a second CPU on hand but I'm trying to keep electricity costs down. I bought 12x 32GB sticks of ddr4 2133 LRDIMM at an okay price, I know this machine can support up to ddr4 2400 under ideal circumstances.
I'm wondering if I should just pop in the second CPU and redistribute the dimms so that I can at least benefit from twice the memory channels. I'm hoping someone else out there might have a similar setup.
For now the server only runs locally on the WiFi were the tablet is connected, it was a pretty fun experience setting it up and running it!
I am completely unable to to get the cable that went from the backplane to the raid card out of the the backplane. Attached is the picture of cable I am trying to get out. Does anyone have any ideas. I feel if I pull any harder I’m gonna rip the port off.
*Update
I got the bitch out thank you all for the suggestions. I kind of just needed to crank on it to be honest cables will be here on Saturday so I will know if I broke it.