HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen8 Walkthrough 4 CPU Server - 1085

I received an HP dl560 Gen8 from Sören, a subscriber in Germany. Sören had gotten this server for his online business : www.File-Conve...
The dl560 is loaded with four Intel Xeon E5-4627v2 CPU's and 128GB of RAM.
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[@einarmiger]

Hello Morten, finally a server from the right brand. 😜 I tell you that for years …😉

[@MyPlayHouse]

Makes you wonder, why people are so eager to get rid of their HP server 🤔

[@carlchristenisnes6763]

@@MyPlayHouse who is, all automation companies uses HP - not that i am a fan - but it beats IBM al the way

[@HomelabExtreme]

I'm happy to buy that server from you when you get annoyed looking at the HP-logo ;) Regarding the FlexLOM... The "FLR" in the model name, designates "FlexLOM Rack", while "FLB" means "FlexLOM Blade". HP/E nics often come in 4 types: PCIe, FlexLOM for rack servers, and FlexLOM for blade servers, and Mezzanine for blades. However, the number stays the same across all of them, and identifies the chipset used. So if you for compatibility reasons need the same card in a rack server, and a blade server, you know to get 554FLR for the rack server, if you have a 554FLB in the blade server. They all follow this pattern: 554FLR (FlexLOM Rack) 554FLB (FlexLOM Blade) 554m (Blade Mezzanine) nc554 (PCIe card) (FYI: example, this doesn't exist)

[@MyPlayHouse]

Yes that annoying HP logo, and people using me for there trash 🤗 You have no idea what equipment I politely say no thank you to. This is a cool model,, I have 30 of the dl560 Gen10 at work,, so I have had a little hands 🙌 on,, they have actually worked well for about 4years now,, without much trouble.

[@electrocyper]

Hi Morten and greetings from Bulgaria. A great video and an interesting server (despite the wrong brand 🤞). I am pretty sure that it can handle more than 768GB of RAM, to be exact 1.5TB of RAM - 48 DIMMs with 32GB RAM sticks. It was an expensive 2U server back in 2012-14. The Lenovo answer to this server is x3750 M4 which also uses 4600 series CPUs but it has normal drive bays in front because of the 2 level design of positioning the CPUs on the motherboard. Cheers 🍻

[@MyPlayHouse]

I know about the x3750 M4,, tried to get Lenovo to lend me one,, that did not happen 😕

[@electrocyper]

@@MyPlayHouse I hope that you will have chance making a video about it at some point.

[@artursmihelsons415]

Nice gift from viewer! Great to see all 4 CPU's populated. Noticed, that SAS connector's is in the air flow way.. Theoretically, this may restrict some air flow. From design point of view, IBM is better though over, especially, air flow. Cool thing in this HP, is that fans can be quickly changed without opening case. Now I'm waiting to see how loud is this server running.. and some testing.. 😉

[@MyPlayHouse]

I am hoping to do an installation video,, so you might be in luck 🍀

[@artursmihelsons415]

@@MyPlayHouse That's will be great! Waiting for next video! 😊

[@KayJay01]

A cool thing about that LOM port is that it supports all the LOM cards, not just the ones on the supported page on their website. That means cards from Gen 9 and 10 also work on that server. I have a DL380 Gen 8 with a dual-port 40Gbps LOM card, for example.

[@KayJay01]

And since they're not regular PCIe they have little resale value, meaning you can get the LOM cards for like $40 on eBay. But now there are people making PCIe to LOM adapters so you can actually get 40gbps ethernet for like $60 each with the adapter

[@Ahmed-gm8li]

Very nice information thank you a lot I do have the 10 Gbps dual card but unfortunately I still have no 10 G network yet

[@MyPlayHouse]

I did not know that the Gen 9 & 10 will work as well!

[@Max78224]

Finally a HP System.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Well summer,, not many people watching,,, sorry about the Quality dip 🤗

[@noelgaler7692]

Hi, it is a little scary reading your bio. I share many of your interests and also have many 1/2 finished projects ! Thank you for your time in putting these videos together, I have not seen anything quite like them before - well done. I have recently acquired some newer server hardware ( i.e. I have lots of other, older hardware too ), example of my recent acquisitions; HP Proliant DL160G6, 1 x CPU, 4 x 2Tb, 32Gb RAM, also HP Proliant DL360, 2 x CPU, 6 x 2Tb, 128Gb RAM and last but by no means least, a MONSTER - Dell VXRail, 4 x ( 2 CPU, 5 x 2Tb + 1 x 800Gb, 256Gb RAM ) I can hardly lift it ! My question is what is the best use ( other than home heating ) for this equipment ? I wonder if you could put something together to show us how to get the best use out of these machines, and maybe even to make a little money to feed the addiction ! Thanks again...

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Noel Galer Thank You very much! glad you liked the videos. I am propoly tha wrong persone to ask,, as my use has gone towards making videos about servers :-) But I know that Plex is popular. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@noelgaler7692]

@@MyPlayHouse Thanks, I found this useful link on Plex - www.tomsguide.com/uk/reference/what-is-plex

[@ninavid]

Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) Version Gen8.1 downloading :) then after some updates you wil have the perfect server, finally some real content and professional equipment

[@MyPlayHouse]

And you never wonder why they are cheaper ?

[@CustomComputing]

Omg the amount of ram you have is insane! Lol I wish I was sent stuff like this I’d be plotting with that ram!

[@MyPlayHouse]

Well, I am so fortunate that people like sending me stuff,, as it is expensive to keep getting new stuff to show/play with 🤗

[@johnmckeon4498]

Great video. I've been looking into buying one of these DL560 servers for 3D rendering in Autodesk Maya. Could you run Windows 10 Pro off a SATA SSD on this server? Will Windows 10 Pro recognize all 4 CPUs? I have been told it has a maximum allocation of 2 CPUs unless you cough up the money for Windows 10 Pro Workstation. Lastly, are the fans super loud at idle or only when running at full blast? I'm thinking of turning it into a daily driver PC as the software licenses I use make it too expensive to have multiple computers with the same graphics packages on them. Rather I need my mainframe render machine and daily driver to be the same computer.

[@MyPlayHouse]

I think You need a Server OS to do 4 CPU´s

[@71Kailee]

i second Yurii - it's a fab box for homelabs - surprisingly quiet, quieter even than my DL380p...

[@MyPlayHouse]

Okay thank you very much.

[@71Kailee]

@@MyPlayHouse BTW the RAID controller is actually the chip under the heat sink you pointed out, the card is mostly the Flash Backed Write Cache inc the controller logic necessary for it. Also - if you feel like it - you should try out TrueNAS with that box. It's ideal as long as you use the HBA you got with it (never use hardware RAID for ZFS!). It's easy to set up and with TN Scale you get some interesting new features. Future video?

[@eDoc2020]

@@71Kailee The onboard RAID controller can actually be switched to HBA mode if that is preferred. The downside here is that you can't have some drives in HW RAID and some in HBA at the same time in this generation.

[@71Kailee]

@@eDoc2020 Hi and thanks for mentioning the HBA mode - it's an important point! Don't be fooled by this - yes the drives will apear as single drives but the controller is not in a true hba mode when switched using ssacli or anything else (like the service pack iso for instance). Best example of how this is still not true HBA mode for things like TrueNAS is that smartctl doesn't work properly... However for some non-critical evaluation etc it might be ok. You're still better off just popping in a true LSI HBA.

[@eDoc2020]

@@71Kailee I haven't played around that much with HBA mode but I'm surprised about smartctl. I remember with the right options (it wasn't autodetected) I was able to use smartctl in RAID mode. Maybe the same is true in HBA mode?

[@jesporo5]

Now thats a cool server!!!

[@MyPlayHouse]

Yes,, it is interesting 🤗

[@Ahmed-gm8li]

Very nice video I like it a lot , thank you and I wish you a beautiful day

[@MyPlayHouse]

It’s been a good day,, hot and nice 👍

[@Innocentdarkness72]

nice boinc , system 32 cores it' rocks,, nice week morten !!!

[@MyPlayHouse]

Not sure what to use it for! :-)

[@nettyvoyager6336]

rail pawn now wow getting better all this server pawn :)

[@MyPlayHouse]

Juicy video 🤗

[@maxxxduel]

what is the highest core of processors you can have on this System ?

[@MyPlayHouse]

I think This one! Twelve-Core Processors Intel® Xeon® E5-4657L v2 (2.4GHz/12-core/30MB/115W) Processor

[@dawn1berlitz]

i have a similar HBA in my Dell server though maybe one day i will upgrade it if i do a raid config

[@MyPlayHouse]

I am a bigger fan of raid cards, then HBA’s

[@dawn1berlitz]

@@MyPlayHouse i might end up putting 2 drives in a raid when i get a better card this server was rather basic when i got it

[@matiasm.3124]

Nice beast !!

[@MyPlayHouse]

Thank you very much!

[@JJSALVAREZ]

Try plotting chia on that server and use a ram disk

[@MyPlayHouse]

It does not have enough RAM :-)

[@kacper9207]

⭐super.

[@MyPlayHouse]

I see that you have been playing catch up :-)

[@bertblankenstein3738]

Folding at home. Maybe we can get in to the top 90.

[@MyPlayHouse]

We need GPU power for that,, the ASUS ESC4000 G2 is better for that :-)

[@bertblankenstein3738]

@@MyPlayHouse yes I'm surprised that some of my GPUs output 3 to 4 times the points of the cpu.

[@Ze0xr]

Kunne virkelig godt overveje at sende 2x DL380e & p model - Gen8... Bruger dem ikke... er gået over til dell

[@MyPlayHouse]

Please, English on my channel! My next video is on the dl380p Gen8 so I am all good 👍

[@Ze0xr]

@@MyPlayHouse okay 😎

[@71Kailee]

@@MyPlayHouse Ah cool - you'll have the same pairing as me then ;-)

[@mejinks1978]

I wish someone would send me an awesome server like that. I want to set up a homelab but lack the funds. I have a ups but it didn't have batteries, I suppose thats a start lol.

[@MyPlayHouse]

I am fortunate to have a larger audience,,, but I started from zero.

[@mejinks1978]

@@MyPlayHouse Yes, but you are a very talented guy and everyone loves you :D

[@OneCosmic749]

It's HP so i think you should get rid of it in any case :D

[@MyPlayHouse]

Well it’s harder to get people to part with their Lenovo servers 🤔

[@yuriikadirov]

@@MyPlayHouse In my country, Ukraine, there is a problem with spare parts for non-so-popular used servers, other than: HPE DL360, 380, and some ML models. But I have a guarantee from the reseller, so I don't need to panic... for 2 next years 😅.

[@Ahmed-gm8li]

2nd

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Ahmed Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@jesporo5]

if you want to sell this server, contact me please, its perfect for my homelab!!!

[@MyPlayHouse]

There is a few on BargainHardware,,, 😬 I am not selling this one.

[@jk-mm5to]

I never really liked HP servers.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Well it is not my brand, but this is an interesting model.

[@carlchristenisnes6763]

its way better then IBM thats for sure

[@Gemini5AU]

I use mostly HP...... But more because I was told I was using Compaq years ago. Just stuck with what I knew. But I do plan to try some recent Lenovo/IBM such as X3650 M4 or similar. I like some Dell gear as well but later on maybe.

[@jk-mm5to]

@@Gemini5AU Dell is number one but I use way more Supermicro. I do like the HP build quality, though.

[@LiamMetcalfe]

First

[@Ahmed-gm8li]

XD good job xD

[@Ahmed-gm8li]

@Frank Hauser You watch (the office) a lot xD

[@MyPlayHouse]

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