I’ve just finished building two HP Proliant DL380 G9 servers for a clients project. As part of that I downloaded and installed the latest HP SUM to ensure all drivers, firmware etc are up to date. In the past I’ve never had an issue with this, it’s normally a matter of installing them, reboot and you’re good to go. I discovered however that after installing HP SUM … [Read more...]
HP Stream 7 power button does not sleep
I’ve got a HP Stream 7 that I’m using for a few things around the place. Nice little unit all up although could do with more RAM. Recently I noticed that for some reason, when I hit the power button, I was expecting it to go into sleep mode, but instead it presented me with a shutdown screen instead. I figured that something had gone amiss with the power settings, so I … [Read more...]
Performance Testing Windows Servers as a NAS
Over the last two nights, I’ve shown you performance testing I’ve done on non Windows based NAS devices, Windows based NAS devices and now tonight, on pure Windows Servers. In my test environment I’ve got a couple of servers configured as just Windows Servers, ie – no Domain Controller roles or anything else. HP ML110G6 – this has 2 x 250GB SATA drives in a RAID 1 … [Read more...]
Performance testing Windows based NAS devices
Following on from last nights article about Performance Testing of non Windows based NAS devices, tonight, I’ll give you some results of some of the NAS devices that are based on Windows. As I said last night, this is all about getting a general feel for the performance of these devices vs categorical winners and losers and it’s based on what I happen to have in my lab / … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2012 Essentials and HP – Better Together
Microsoft and HP did a joint announcement this week at the WorldWide Partner Conference about Windows Server 2012 Essentials and HP Servers. You can check out the video below that was done by the HP Coffee Coaching team. David Fabritius is one of the key guys on the Product Marketing Team for Windows Server 2012 Essentials and Lucy Ellis is the SMB Server Product Manager … [Read more...]