apalrds adventures | New Toys! HP MicroServer Gen8 Unboxing, Hardware Overview, Linux | Homelab Operations Center @apalrdsadventures | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
In this video, I open a new gift to the homelab - an HP MicroServer Gen8. This little chonky cube is full of hard drives and not a whole lot else, making it a perfect test system for ZFS, TrueNAS, Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server, etc. and I'm already planning the videos I want to make with it. So come along as I open it up and see roughly what's inside, the specs, and use HP iLO (their proprietary IPMI) for the first time.
Link to blog post with some pictures of the interior:
apalrd.net/posts/2022/microsrv_intro
My Discord server:
discord.gg/xJsaEukAr4
If you find my content useful and would like to support me, feel free to here: ko-fi.com/apalrd
Future projects for this box include Proxmox networking (bridges, bonds, LACP), ZFS pools in various arrangements, and probably much more. I'm open to suggestions of what you'd like to see me do in Proxmox or TrueNAS, feel free to drop a comment down below or message me. What would you do with hardware like this?
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:46 - Hardware
04:01 - HP iLO
05:27 - Linux Devices
06:49 - Conclusions
In this video, I open a new gift to the homelab - an HP MicroServer Gen8. This little chonky cube is full of hard drives and not a whole lot else, making it a perfect test system for ZFS, TrueNAS, Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server, etc. and I'm already planning the videos I want to make with it. So come along as I open it up and see roughly what's inside, the specs, and use HP iLO (their proprietary IPMI) for the first time.
Link to blog post with some pictures of the interior:
apalrd.net/posts/2022/microsrv_intro
My Discord server:
discord.gg/xJsaEukAr4
If you find my content useful and would like to support me, feel free to here: ko-fi.com/apalrd
Future projects for this box include Proxmox networking (bridges, bonds, LACP), ZFS pools in various arrangements, and probably much more. I'm open to suggestions of what you'd like to see me do in Proxmox or TrueNAS, feel free to drop a comment down below or message me. What would you do with hardware like this?
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:46 - Hardware
04:01 - HP iLO
05:27 - Linux Devices
06:49 - Conclusions
