[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on HP Gen 10 Microserver

[Michelle]

The target server is actually going to be the Gen 10 Plus...
https://uk-new.ingrammicro.com/site/productdetail?id=2M2SBG9

The specs are light on the exact specs of the speed, but the manual
doesn't help either...
https://www.serversdirect.co.uk/PDFs/P16006-421_1_7006250_Original.pdf?v=27

The best they say is... "The embedded HPE Smart Array S100i SR Gen10
Controller supports SATA drive installation. This controller supports
RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10" ... and it would be a bit odd for them to
support RAID levels like that and have two ports down to 3Gbs.

Grateful for any insight.

Michelle.


On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 19:55 +0100, rmd wrote:
> Hi
> 
> it depends a bit on the BIOS version of the Gen 10. With the early
> version
> it works best, pulling all disks out of the bays, do the install,
> reboot, halt
> again, put the drives back in, repower and boot, then do the disk
> configs.
> 
> With my Gen 10, I put a 4i4o SAS-controler in it, plug the sas-plug
> of the
> internal drive bays on the i-cnector of that additional 4i4o sas card
> and
> connect SSDs with a fan out cable to the on board sas connector. With
> a bit of soldering an additional power connector for the SSDs is
> simply
> set up an the OS goes on those SSDs. Hence, the Gen10 supports only
> 2 diskbays with 6G througput and the other two bays only support 3G.
> 
> regs, Rolf
> 
> > On Feb 16, 2023, at 9:34 AM, Michelle <michelle at msknight.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > One of my older servers has died and I'm looking to replace with a
> > Gen
> > 10 microserver.
> > 
> > On my N54L, there are four bays, but a top CD bay where the
> > operating
> > system drive sits with OI on it, leaving me with four bays for
> > spinning
> > rust.
> > 
> > However, on the Gen 10 I've looked at the motherboard and I can't
> > see
> > anything other than a USB connector and the SATA harness connector.
> > I
> > can't see a DVD/CD drive either.
> > 
> > Has anyone managed to get OI on another drive, or am I going to
> > have to
> > take up a bay for the OS drive please?
> > 
> > Thanks for any hints and advice,
> > 
> > Michelle.
> > 
> > 
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