HP Microserver Gen8

  • CPU: Xeon E3 1230v2
  • RAM: 16G（2slot）
  • HDD: 4Ray
  • NIC: 2 * 1Gb + iLO
  • Power: 200W

HP iLO

Integrated Lights-Out, or iLO, is a proprietary embedded server management technology by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise which provides out-of-band management facilities. The physical connection is an Ethernet port that can be found on most ProLiant servers and microservers[1] of the 300 and above series.

iLO has similar functionality to the lights out management (LOM) technology offered by other vendors, for example, Sun/Oracle’s LOM port, Dell DRAC, the IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter and Cisco CIMC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Integrated_Lights-Out

硬件升级

  1. 更换 CPU HP Microserver Gen8 出厂自带的 CPU 是 Intel Celeron G1610T，性能比较弱，而且不支持 VT-d，所以我选择更换 CPU。 我这里推荐 Intel Xeon E3 1230v2，性能比较强，而且支持 VT-d。

  2. 添加内存 HP Microserver Gen8 出厂自带的内存是 2G，我们添加到 16G ECC。

  3. RAID 阵列卡 HP Gen 8 内置的是软件阵列驱动器,而不是硬盘驱动器。能够支持的 RAID Level 比较有限，只有 RAID 0 和 RAID 1。 VMWare ESXi 对 Gen8 的软 RAID 驱动性能非常有问题，需要将驱动降级到 ESXi6 才能使硬盘性能表现正常。 我能找到最新的支持 Gen8 软 RAID 驱动的 ESXi 的版本就只到 ESXi7 了，而 ESXi8 已经不再支持了。 所以换一个独立的阵列卡是很有必要的。

HP Smart Array P420

安装 VMware ESXi

FAQ

HP MicroServer Gen8, Solving performance issues with ESXi 6

If you have installed to a newer version of ESXi on your Gen8 Micro Server and are now suffering from very low performance disk speed, try the following steps to downgrade to a former hpvsa-driver (scsi-hpvsa-5.5.0-88). Just follow these simple steps:

Download the driver https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/softwaredetails?language=en_US&softwareId=MTX_dcfe1ad1b6ae442e8ed665c595

scp Downloads/scsi-hpvsa-5.5.0-88OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib [email protected]:/tmp
cp scsi-hpvsa-5.5.0-88OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib /var/log/vmware/
esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable true
esxcli software vib remove -n scsi-hpvsa -f
esxcli software vib install -v file:scsi-hpvsa-5.5.0-88OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib --force --no-sig-check --maintenance-mode

Restart your ESXi, stop the maintenance mode, disable SSH connections and start VMs again Hope that helps for you as well.

  • https://seiler.it/solving-performance-issues-with-esxi-6-gen8/
  • http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?swItemId=MTX_bfdbb1dfc5314e02bc01b1436b
  • https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1017530