Topic: Experiences with HP/Compaq Servers

[shanen]

Hi all,
Just need a quick bit of advice regarding SME on HP/Compaq gear.
I have a site with a dying Compaq Proliant 1200 running Novell 4.11...
It runs an DOS app called Fidelio (a Hotel Management System) and an accounts/payroll package called attache.
It also acts as a general purpose file store and print server. There is roughly 20 users logged in at any one time and novell reports between 350 to 400 files open at once, during the day.
I am picturing a TC2120 with 36gig SCSI drive. They come with a gigabit NC7760 nic (I can disable and install my own nic if no drivers available).
SME 6 final in server only mode.
Domain Controller.
Login script to map drives and printers.
The environment is a mix of win9x, 2k and XP desktops (Yeah I know).
I am mainly after some of you to share your experiences with "Off the shelf" servers.

Thanks

Shane

[shanen]

Or Dell PowerEdge 1600SC?
I know there is a nic driver for these.
Does anybody have any feedback to share with this server.

Thanks

Shane

[haynest]

I have a 1600SC, and I have run 5.6 and 6 on it. On 5.6, the machine won't find the gigabit ethernet card. I found the procedure in these forums to manually select the card, and it all worked.

I don't think 6.0 had anything unusual with the installation.

Have fun...   Tom

[shanen]

Thanks for the feedback Tom.
Seems like the dell is the way to go as broadcom gigabit drivers for hp/compaq are not readly available.

Thanks again

Shane

[shanen]

Hi again,
I have successfully installed SME final on a Compaq Proliant ML310 and all is working fine.
IDE RAID Mirror
Broadcom bcm5702 Gigabit (sme correctly detected and procurve switch reports it is running @ Gig full duplex)
Now I can relax...

Hope this helps someone.

Shane

[pete]

Go to hp.com and get the smart start CD, get the latest BIOS update - boot from smart start and select red hat linux, installa away.

There is posts in this forum and in the HP knowledge base on some memory issues you may have, you will need to search for this and add the extra commands to the boot kernel process.

[shanen]

Thanks Pete...