Discuss January 2023

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Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box
by Robert Moskowitz 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

I have found a: HPE 873830-S01 ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 for <$300 without drives. If I can believe the seller, it has a AMD Opteron X3216 Dual-core (2 Core) 1.6GHz and 8GB Installed. It has 4 3.5" bays. and 1? "Media" bay? https://www.servertechsupply.com/873830-s01/ this could well be acceptable. Got to find out power draw. Looks like ~40W. Any input on issues of OS install? Do I go with separate OS and data RAID1 sets? Also HPE is ClearOS. I ran ClearOS6 for years before going with QNAP turnkey. Perhaps current ClearOS is better, but it does not handle multi-domain email as I need. Or it did not. So I am going to install my own CentOS variant and iRedMail... thanks On 1/5/23 13:08, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 08:18:08AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Proliant gen8 does NOT have UEFI. >> >> So I think this means I better move up to the gen10... >> > > I'm pleased with my Gen 10+ (Plus). Pricer than I thought > you want. > > I like the "no power supply", just an external brick. > Quiet. I put in a PCI card to use 2 NVMe sticks, one for > system and one for /home. You can also boot from an internal > usb port like a thumb drive permanently installed. > > Carriers for 2.5inch SSD drives work fine so with few fans, > no drive motors, could be quite low power. > > Mine acts as email server, local caching DNS server (dnsmasq) > and Amanda backup server. > > Jon >

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Help with an HP Proliant gen10 plus?
by Robert Moskowitz 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

Just starting and trying to boot off the SPP firmware update ISO image on a USB stick. I made the stick with: # mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb # dd bs=4M if=P52581_001_gen10spp-2022.09.01.00-SPP2022090100.2022_0930.1.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress The usb drive is 16GB and the iso is 9GB. seem to boot from it and go into auto install of firmware then died with starting initrd... warning!!! Unable to mount the file system [cdrom] warning!!! Unable to mount the file system Preboot maintence mode /bin/ash: can't access tty: job control turned off and at # prompt. There is no cdrom on the gen10 plus. Only in internal bootable usb port.

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CentOS cloud images, cloud-init
by Jack Bailey 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

Hello List, At this link, https://cloud.centos.org/altarch/7/images/ I'm trying to use the latest image CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2c I cannot log in to the VM because cloud-init did not run. vSphere says open-vm-tools is not running. After having broken into the VM, I see open-vm-tools is installed but not enabled. Does anyone know why/why not? I could be mistaken, but I'm thinking maybe that's why cloud-init doesn't run. Jack

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Looking for a RAID1 box
by Robert Moskowitz 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

Help? I am looking for a box I can drop Centos or one of the spinoffs that: Has RAID1 internal (not an external USB RAID thing) Can be software or hardware small (4TB/drive fine) and low power I plan to use it ONLY for email server. perhaps iRedMail I have spent a lot of time looking and not finding any such piece of metal. All I find are NAS boxes with their own OS. thanks Bob (frustrated)

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Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box
by Michael Schumacher 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

Hallo Kenneth, ... > That has 2x 2.5 Gbps ports, which would be nice for a simple home router. Is there a 3x or 4x 1 Gbps version? I was considering a Firewalla with 4x 2.5 Gbps ports, as I have two ISPs for redundancy. (One is 1 Gbps symmetric.) But they're about 2.5x that price. Review: Yes Sir, there is an add-on board for the H3+, https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/h2-net-card/ that gives four extra 2.5GBps ports. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Michael Schumacher

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