HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

[Johan Ström]

On Mar 13, 2008, at 4:57 PM, David Schutt wrote:

> 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 :-)

That is probably not a big deal for me. Then I guess this should work  
fine.. I've just played around some on 7.0 with serial console on a  
regular port (not HP box though), and it seems to work fine.

 From what I could tell i can just SSH to iLO and enter 'vps' and I   
get the serial port, and that this works very good (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-proliant/2007-August/000292.html 
). If anyone thinks opposite, I'd appreciate a line. :)

Thanks!