[PVE-User] Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

[PVE-User] Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

[Humberto Freitas]

Hey guys, I hope everybody is all right 😜

I’m seeking for an advice from the community on buying this server, HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8. Has someone installed Proxmox VE on it. I’m planning to install, in the beginning, an instance of Debian 10 and in it I’m planning to have the usual setting for an enterprise like a filesharing software, an ERP, web server, etc...

I’ve looked up something on DuckDuckGo, and find few things except this: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/help-installing-proxmox-on-hp-proliant-server-dl380e-g8.18522/. Does the issues described in the page still exist?

Appreciate your wisdom lol

Thanks for your great work

Sincerely,

Humberto Freitas

Phone: +244 944 775 334
Email: humberto.freitas310@gmail.com
Angola

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

[Ralf Storm]

Hello Humberto,


I have it running for a customer on a DL380 Gen9 and on an even older 
one, works togeher like charm.

I have installed Proxmox on so many different hardware in the past few 
years, from a small atom NUC, on "usual" pcs and up to "real" servers.

Never had a problem with it.

I always use the ZFS-options during install - better than using the 
raidcontrollers in my opinion.


have fun with it


best regards


Ralf

Am 14/04/2021 um 18:57 schrieb Humberto Freitas:
> Hey guys, I hope everybody is all right 😜
>
> I’m seeking for an advice from the community on buying this server, HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8. Has someone installed Proxmox VE on it. I’m planning to install, in the beginning, an instance of Debian 10 and in it I’m planning to have the usual setting for an enterprise like a filesharing software, an ERP, web server, etc...
>
> I’ve looked up something on DuckDuckGo, and find few things except this: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/help-installing-proxmox-on-hp-proliant-server-dl380e-g8.18522/. Does the issues described in the page still exist?
>
> Appreciate your wisdom lol
>
> Thanks for your great work
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Humberto Freitas
>
> Phone: +244 944 775 334
> Email: humberto.freitas310@gmail.com
> Angola
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Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

[Humberto Freitas]

Hello Ralf, thank you so much for you fast response. 

> I have it running for a customer on a DL380 Gen9 and on an even older one, works togeher like charm.
Nice to know that. It looks promising 🥰

> I have installed Proxmox on so many different hardware in the past few years, from a small atom NUC, on "usual" pcs and up to "real" servers.
> 
> Never had a problem with it.
Yeah, Proxmox is such great software. Excellent work guys

> I always use the ZFS-options during install - better than using the raidcontrollers in my opinion.
Thanks for the advice. It looks like this server has some issues with RAID drivers. I’ll keep this in mind 😜

> have fun with it
Hell yeah... I’m just waiting for the final decision to get it and start working with it. I can’t wait. Perhaps I’ll say something about the installation so people can see that Proxmox is tested on this kind of server

Once again thanks Ralf and all the community 

Sincerely,

Humberto Freitas

Phone: +244 944 775 334
Email: humberto.freitas310@gmail.com
Angola

> On 14/04/2021, at 6:27 PM, Ralf Storm <ralf.storm@konzept-is.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello Humberto,
> 
> 
> I have it running for a customer on a DL380 Gen9 and on an even older one, works togeher like charm.
> 
> I have installed Proxmox on so many different hardware in the past few years, from a small atom NUC, on "usual" pcs and up to "real" servers.
> 
> Never had a problem with it.
> 
> I always use the ZFS-options during install - better than using the raidcontrollers in my opinion.
> 
> 
> have fun with it
> 
> 
> best regards
> 
> 
> Ralf
> 
>> Am 14/04/2021 um 18:57 schrieb Humberto Freitas:
>> Hey guys, I hope everybody is all right 😜
>> 
>> I’m seeking for an advice from the community on buying this server, HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8. Has someone installed Proxmox VE on it. I’m planning to install, in the beginning, an instance of Debian 10 and in it I’m planning to have the usual setting for an enterprise like a filesharing software, an ERP, web server, etc...
>> 
>> I’ve looked up something on DuckDuckGo, and find few things except this: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/help-installing-proxmox-on-hp-proliant-server-dl380e-g8.18522/. Does the issues described in the page still exist?
>> 
>> Appreciate your wisdom lol
>> 
>> Thanks for your great work
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> Humberto Freitas
>> 
>> Phone: +244 944 775 334
>> Email: humberto.freitas310@gmail.com
>> Angola
>> _______________________________________________
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>> https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
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Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Humberto Freitas
  In chel di` si favelave...

> I’m seeking for an advice from the community on buying this server, HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8. Has someone installed Proxmox VE on it. I’m planning to install, in the beginning, an instance of Debian 10 and in it I’m planning to have the usual setting for an enterprise like a filesharing software, an ERP, web server, etc...

I'm currently running PVE 5 on a ProLiant ML350p Gen8, that AFAIK is
the 'tower' version of ProLiant DL380p Gen8. No trouble at all.


If you have enough RAM, consider putting the controller in JBOD mode
and install directly with ZFS software RAID.

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Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

[Aaron Lauterer]

I personally still have one of those old boxes around.

Works fine but regarding the disks and RAID controllers you should be aware that in my experience, booting from any of the disks did not work when put into JBOD mode. I ended up putting in an HBA controller which also needed new SAS cables as the ones it shipped with have plugs that are angled at 90° making it impossible to plug 2 of them into the HBA.


On 4/14/21 6:57 PM, Humberto Freitas wrote:
> Hey guys, I hope everybody is all right 😜
> 
> I’m seeking for an advice from the community on buying this server, HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8. Has someone installed Proxmox VE on it. I’m planning to install, in the beginning, an instance of Debian 10 and in it I’m planning to have the usual setting for an enterprise like a filesharing software, an ERP, web server, etc...
> 
> I’ve looked up something on DuckDuckGo, and find few things except this: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/help-installing-proxmox-on-hp-proliant-server-dl380e-g8.18522/. Does the issues described in the page still exist?
> 
> Appreciate your wisdom lol
> 
> Thanks for your great work
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Humberto Freitas
> 
> Phone: +244 944 775 334
> Email: humberto.freitas310@gmail.com
> Angola
> _______________________________________________
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Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

[Ralf Storm]

Hey Aron,

why didn´t you get this booting? What was the errror? Never had any 
booting problems with proxmox, despite the ZFS issues, which are 
described in the documentation, with quick and easy solutions

Am 15/04/2021 um 09:47 schrieb Aaron Lauterer:
> I personally still have one of those old boxes around.
>
> Works fine but regarding the disks and RAID controllers you should be 
> aware that in my experience, booting from any of the disks did not 
> work when put into JBOD mode. I ended up putting in an HBA controller 
> which also needed new SAS cables as the ones it shipped with have 
> plugs that are angled at 90° making it impossible to plug 2 of them 
> into the HBA.
>
>
> On 4/14/21 6:57 PM, Humberto Freitas wrote:
>> Hey guys, I hope everybody is all right 😜
>>
>> I’m seeking for an advice from the community on buying this server, 
>> HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8. Has someone installed Proxmox VE on it. I’m 
>> planning to install, in the beginning, an instance of Debian 10 and 
>> in it I’m planning to have the usual setting for an enterprise like a 
>> filesharing software, an ERP, web server, etc...
>>
>> I’ve looked up something on DuckDuckGo, and find few things except 
>> this: 
>> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/help-installing-proxmox-on-hp-proliant-server-dl380e-g8.18522/. 
>> Does the issues described in the page still exist?
>>
>> Appreciate your wisdom lol
>>
>> Thanks for your great work
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Humberto Freitas
>>
>> Phone: +244 944 775 334
>> Email: humberto.freitas310@gmail.com
>> Angola
>> _______________________________________________
>> pve-user mailing list
>> pve-user@lists.proxmox.com
>> https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
>>
>
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Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

[Aaron Lauterer]

IIRC, it has been a while: once I switched the P420i to HBA/JBOD mode, I think it only supports HBA? It just did not present any option to boot from it either in the controller or BIOS settings.

I think that has gotten better with the RAID controllers present in the G9 and later, but the P420i in the G8 (and G7?) are a bit horrible in that regard.

On 4/15/21 9:59 AM, Ralf Storm wrote:
> Hey Aron,
> 
> why didn´t you get this booting? What was the errror? Never had any booting problems with proxmox, despite the ZFS issues, which are described in the documentation, with quick and easy solutions
> 
> Am 15/04/2021 um 09:47 schrieb Aaron Lauterer:
>> I personally still have one of those old boxes around.
>>
>> Works fine but regarding the disks and RAID controllers you should be aware that in my experience, booting from any of the disks did not work when put into JBOD mode. I ended up putting in an HBA controller which also needed new SAS cables as the ones it shipped with have plugs that are angled at 90° making it impossible to plug 2 of them into the HBA.
>>
>>
>> On 4/14/21 6:57 PM, Humberto Freitas wrote:
>>> Hey guys, I hope everybody is all right 😜
>>>
>>> I’m seeking for an advice from the community on buying this server, HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8. Has someone installed Proxmox VE on it. I’m planning to install, in the beginning, an instance of Debian 10 and in it I’m planning to have the usual setting for an enterprise like a filesharing software, an ERP, web server, etc...
>>>
>>> I’ve looked up something on DuckDuckGo, and find few things except this: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/help-installing-proxmox-on-hp-proliant-server-dl380e-g8.18522/. Does the issues described in the page still exist?
>>>
>>> Appreciate your wisdom lol
>>>
>>> Thanks for your great work
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Humberto Freitas
>>>
>>> Phone: +244 944 775 334
>>> Email: humberto.freitas310@gmail.com
>>> Angola
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> pve-user mailing list
>>> pve-user@lists.proxmox.com
>>> https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
>>>
>>
>>
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Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox on a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

[Leandro Roggerone]

Humberto , WE bought an used hpe proliant dl380 gen8.
It is working very nice so far.

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El mié, 14 abr 2021 a las 13:57, Humberto Freitas (<
humberto.freitas310@gmail.com>) escribió:

> Hey guys, I hope everybody is all right 😜
>
> I’m seeking for an advice from the community on buying this server, HP
> ProLiant DL380p Gen8. Has someone installed Proxmox VE on it. I’m planning
> to install, in the beginning, an instance of Debian 10 and in it I’m
> planning to have the usual setting for an enterprise like a filesharing
> software, an ERP, web server, etc...
>
> I’ve looked up something on DuckDuckGo, and find few things except this:
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/help-installing-proxmox-on-hp-proliant-server-dl380e-g8.18522/.
> Does the issues described in the page still exist?
>
> Appreciate your wisdom lol
>
> Thanks for your great work
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Humberto Freitas
>
> Phone: +244 944 775 334
> Email: humberto.freitas310@gmail.com
> Angola
> _______________________________________________
> pve-user mailing list
> pve-user@lists.proxmox.com
> https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
>