[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8

[Chris Ridd]

On 30 Jul 2013, at 02:52, Jarrad Piper <jarrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> An update to the status of the HP Microserver Gen8. The latest stable of
> OmniOS now supports the NIC's so all looks good for the next release of OI.

Great news!

> On the KVM front it's worse I'm afraid. Creating and deleting VNIC's causes
> the NIC to fail with "bge0: bge_chip_poll_engine failed". Another issue is

That's a bit of a problem :-( Can you raise that in the Illumos bug tracker?

> when you are using a shared NIC for ILO. The LOM dies after the OS comes up
> so I have had to use the dedicated ILO port. In other news it has been
> confirmed that you can put a Xeon into these boxes without issue.
> http://b3n.org/installed-xeon-e3-1230v2-in-gen8-hp-microserver/

Chris