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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Presi300 to c/selfhosted
 

This is sort of a follow-up to my previous post, asking about migrating ZFS pools to a new machine. Migration went smoothly and the new machine is quite the nice upgrade, if I may say so myself I went from:

A hacked together custom build

AMD FX-8320E 8c/8t @3.20 GHz 16GB ram

To a used HP ProLient dl380e gen8

2x Xeon E5-2450 16c/32t @2.10 GHz 64GB ram

Not mentioning storage, as I haven't changed that, still using a

5x 2TB RAIDz1 HDD pool

Huge thanks to anyone who replied to my old post :)

The ProLient has been quite the fun experience, got it for real cheap and it's been pretty great. Took me a while to figure out how to get the thing booting, iLO4 is not as horrible as I expected and it is kinda loud, but pretty great other than that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Imo iLO5 is a big improvement over iLO4.
Also you can download an iLO remote client to not be required to login to the web ui.

[–] Presi300 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

iLO remote client? what's that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Little application to avoid the login to the web-ui.
Link to download the standalone client: https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/softwaredetails?language=en_US&collectionId=MTX-dc6da387790e42be

Upside: You won't get thrown out of your remote session while having an ISO mounted.
Upside 2: You avoid having to use Edge, to enable IE legacy mode to being able to use the .NET console.

[–] Presi300 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Bit of a problem here, I don't use windows. All my machines are either Linux or Mac... And I cannot find neither a Linux nor a Mac version of the application...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

In that case it seems you are stuck with logging into the ilo web-ui and the java applet or the html player. I am not aware of a linux player.
Your best bet would be to browse the support repository of the hpe page. Maybe you can find a sort of OSS-version someone created.

Edit: Maybe try to run it with proton/wine? That should be fine if you just want to use it to remote into the server

[–] Presi300 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Though, I gotta say, my particular version of iLO4 (2.77) seems to have some bug with the HTML console where it sometimes stops receiving inputs after POST, which is rather annoying...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Havent encountered that issue thus far. Did you try a reset of the iLO?

[–] Presi300 1 points 6 months ago

yep, did not fix it

[–] Presi300 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's not really a huge deal for me, as I generally prefer using SSH and the sort for remote access either way. And besides, the HTML console is clunky, but it gets the job done.