Upgraded HP Microserver Gen8, 10GbE, i5 3470T, 16GB ECC, Homelab Proxmox Truenas

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Seller: beardytech ✉️ (1,467) 100%, Location: Ely, GB, Ships to: GB, Item: 256426842098 Upgraded HP Microserver Gen8, 10GbE, i5 3470T, 16GB ECC, Homelab Proxmox Truenas. One tricked out HP MicroServer Gen8! There's still nothing really to rival these in terms of server capability within a foot cube chassis! This outpaces the Gen10 in many ways, and the Gen10+ is a lot more expensive - whilst still losing out in some areas!
  • Intel Core i5 3470T, 35w, passmark 2977  (The Gen 10 Opteron X3216 is 1447, the X3421, 3375)
  • 16GB ECC DDR3, 2x8GB 1600Mhz
  • PCIe x16 Slot
  • iLO Advanced remote management and HTML5 iKVM (full remote console!) via dedicated NIC
  • Dual Gigabit NIC, HP i332 onboard
  • 10GbE Mellanox (now Nvidia) ConnectX-2 EN, dual SFP+ network card in the PCIe slot
  • (Not suitable for modern Windows, but otherwise a great NIC - low power and well supported in *nix)
  • 40mm active cooling fan attached to the NIC and wired to 12v molex power
  • On request, the 10Gb network card and fan can be swapped for a single port 2.5GbE at no extra cost
  • 4x SATA 3.5" bays with HP trays (2 styles on the 2 available, let me know if you have a preference!)
  • 1x SATA data & power connection for 2.5" drive in top shelf
  • 1x Additional SATA connection for 2nd 2.5" drive in top shelf, via high quality USB 3.0 sabrent adapter
  • 16 GB HP USB DOM (disk on module), with durable MLC nand, as boot drive for Truenas or Proxmox
  • TrueNAS Scale 23.10 preinstalled
*NOTE* - 2.5" SATA SSD's shown for fitment illustration only, and are not included! The USB boot drive is included, all other SSD and HDD you need to provide. I've used quite a few of these at home and in business, for a variety of purposes. They make great secondary virtualization nodes, ideal branch office servers, perfect quiet homelab-in-a-box, a much better NAS than most NAS boxes you can buy, and far more besides. Many friends run them as home media / storage servers! This comes with TrueNAS Scale 23.10 preinstalled and set for DHCP - ready to rock! - just visit https://truenas and login as user: admin , pass: ebay123 :) I'd suggest adding 4 matching SATA HDD for storage in a Raid Z1 arrangement, plus 2x SATA 2.5" SSD in a mirror for metadata / small block "special allocation class" vdev. Would have to do this via CLI but I can assist and it's well worth it! Works like an SSD cache for the worst case work that would otherwise be done by a mechanical drive. However, it's also great for proxmox with passthrough SATA storage - I had one setup with the USB DOM running proxmox 8, a USB adapted 2.5" drive providing ceph storage for proxmox, and the SATA controller passed through in it's entirety to a VM running Truenas SCALE. For me it was a backup location with the truenas VM and a third node for a couple of highly available containers to failover. The truenas VM over 10GbE managed about ~ 340MB/s on ZFS recv to 4 x 12TB HDD RaidZ1 by the way, so a pretty performant system! I didn't get around to adding a SATA splitter (they do exist!) to the remaining port and adding a mirror of SSD for metadata special device, but this is in theory possible to add more SSDs to the system (and you can already have this mirror if running Truenas bare metal, as shipped!). The USB adapter required a modification to the PCIE retention bracket so it could fit through - cable is protected from the metal edges with a couple of thick wraps of gaffer tape, and the PCIE card is now retained by screw not clip. Firmwares are all up to date, 2019 BIOS and 2023 ILO with HTML iKVM activated. There's a known issue with all Gen8 HP ILO, wearing out onboard NAND flash storage, however this one is *not* affected - everything's showing green and it works as it should. Given it's also been patched to latest version which mitigates such issues, it should remain fully functional long into the future too! I have a variety of homelab optimised servers available in my eBay store, checkout my range here!
  • Condition: Used
  • Brand: HP
  • Form Factor: Tower
  • Type: Tower Server
  • Processor Manufacturer: Intel
  • Network Connectivity: Wired-Ethernet (RJ-45)
  • RAM Size: 16 GB
  • Network Management Type: Fully Managed
  • Model: Microserver Gen8
  • Memory Type: DDR3 ECC UDIMM
  • Processor Speed: 3.6 GHz
  • Product Line: MicroServer

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