[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi David

With such an old release version many steps to upgrade are required and 
you are more likely to sucess installing a new System from ISO/USB to 
the existing rpool which will create an independant boot environment 
with newest software.

It wouold also alow you to test the newest release on the Hardware first 
without requiring any changes to your setup.

The Option to install into an existing pool is part of the Installer.

-Till

On 07.06.23 11:52, david allan finch wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Might be interesting to someone out there ;)
> 
> I still have this little box, use it as a file server and still using 
> oi_151a9.
> 
> I have progressively been replacing the HDD with bigger and bigger 
> drives and all still works well. I keep think of replacing the hardware 
> but never yet really got around to it. I think since the original 2Tb 
> HHDs I have increase it to 6Tb, 10Tb, then 14Tb in stages.
> 
> I just replace my 3 disk raid5 pool, which used to have 3x14Tb with some 
> new 3x20Tb Tosh disks.
> 
> Last time it took 10hr each to re-silver the replaced disks from 10Tb to 
> 14Tb, this time it took 33hr for each disk (ie 100hr to do all three 
> over 5 days).
> 
> I have tried to update the OS before and always it fails at some point, 
> so in the end just stayed with what worked.
> 
> On 2/12/15 10:36, david allan finch wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what to do for an upgrade?
>>
>> I have a HP Proliant Microserver N54L with 4x 2Tb drives which I have 
>> been happy with for more than a year but I have started to run out of 
>> disk space in my zfs pool. I have been pruning the snapshots and 
>> rubbish but filling it up now is inevitable.
>>
>> What I would really like to do is to swap the disks out for larger one 
>> but I doubt that this is really practical as to make this work you 
>> need spare disk slots which I don't have.
>>
>> Another option might be to add a SATA card and add more disk that way. 
>> But I have no idea of where to start with this, and even if this 
>> microserver can do that.
>>
>> And a third is just to get a new server. I can't see any which have 
>> more than 4 drive bays do these exist (for reasonable money) or do you 
>> need to make your own? If so anyone got a recommendation?
> 
> 
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