Working onsite with a client this week, they asked why one of their new Hyper-V servers was rebooting. I checked the event logs on the server and could not see anything obvious at all. All the event logs showed was unscheduled reboots occurring around every two weeks at 11:53am in the morning. Given that these servers are HP 300 series servers, they all have … [Read more...]
HP Proliant ML110 G5 – Loud Fan Noise
I have a couple of HP ML 110 G5’s here in my office. I was doing some maintenance and did BIOS upgrades to them to the latest version available here. Immediately AFTER the BIOS upgrade, I noticed that the fans in the system ran at full speed ALL the time… the noise was intense in my little office. Like most of us however, I didn’t have time to dig into it and I left … [Read more...]
HP Proliant ML330 G6
Recently HP released the 6th generation of their product line. As part of that they released the ML330 G6. This server is focused on the mid level SMB client and includes features that are designed to answer their business requirements. I’ve been fortunate to have one of these servers for quite a few months now as I was beta testing it for HP. During the beta I found that … [Read more...]
Problems with HP?
I ve heard in the community over the last few weeks a growing concern about various aspects of HP s products and service/support. A large amount of this is coming from the Australian partner community. I ve taken a number of those concerns direct to HP for their input and they are mobilising a team to better understand and address the issues. In the interim, can I ask that … [Read more...]