HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

[David Schutt]

Johan Ström wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Sean Winn wrote:
> 
>> For using HP blades and standard iLO (no licensed advance features), 
>> it works perfectly well, installing both FreeBSD 5 and 6 on the blades 
>> I've tried, using a remote install CD from the Java applet (there's 
>> one for remote devices like disks, and one for remote console); 
>> there's only text mode but that's plenty to install the OS and enable 
>> it to the point of using SSH to manage it from there on in. I'd hope 
>> the iLO hardware/software is relatively common to all the HP range :)
>>
>> text mode access continues at all times - the iLO interface is just a 
>> remote screen/keyboard onto it, even POST BIOS boot. The external 
>> devices are USB mass storage ones, but I didn't have problems booting 
>> off the CD and installing it for 6.2.
> 
> 
> Well.. The blades seems to be an exception:
> 
> • iLO 2 Standard Blade Edition (unlicensed blade server):
> o Remote Console and IRC
> 
> This is not listed under "iLO 2 Standard (unlicensed:)"... I guess that 
> means I'm out of luck unless I want to bang up another $400 (listing 
> price).. Which I'd rather not :)
> 
> Anyone running those 360G5's using serial console on a normal licensed iLO?
> 

Yes.  We have one DL360 G5, and I was able to get serial console working 
using information I found in this thread --

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-proliant/2007-October/000303.html

Only downside is that the physical COM1 becomes unavailable, which 
caused some consternation when trying to monitor a UPS :-)

FreeBSD 7 amd64 (still BETA4) acting as a Samba file server, works very 
well for us.

-- 
David Schutt

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