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Hehe, yeah... I can't remember a dedi provider that had a PXE boot menu to reinstall your stuff. I want something like that. This iLO/vnc/VMware-style to reinstall servers is a mess.
if u mark a Ticket as Emergency its shown as "Priority: 911"
How can I improve the disk I/O of VMWare machines? Here is what I got from a Debian VPS installed on the dedi:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
1221+0 records in
1221+0 records out
80019456 bytes (80 MB) copied, 339.979 s, 235 kB/s
^C
@zhuanyi I'm going to try KVM/OpenVZ to see if that has any better results.
@zhuanyi I'm pretty sure ESXi needs special drivers and/or possibly a custom ISO provided by HP. On this, however, I'm really not joking about how horribly contradictory and redundant HP's website is. I gave up.
@jarland Yeah, there is a special ESXi ISO for HP servers, I've got a HP Proliant at home which I use for ESXI dev.
@zhuanyi Install this: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPVM09
Agreed, their website is terrible...
Arghhh...just wasted a good part of my day installed 4 virtual machines...time wasted, LOL
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How did you update iLo? My firmware management button is greyed-out for me
Hmmm, not sure if you need to boot with the remote console, then modify privileges for your user. After that probably you will be able to upload a new firmware.
Otherwise... have you tried the "browse" button and select the .bin file?
And btw, I wasn't able to use this method. I tried 3 times and "failed". I did it from my Debian install.
I think this is where the problem would be:
Configure iLO 2 Settings: Prohibited
As yomero said, the easy way is to reboot from remote console, hit F8 to configure ilo and change your profile to admin, or.. you can install hp utils and do it from comand line (as i did, the hard way lol.)
Ha, I can make myself the admin? That's good, I'll try it!
Okey, their sales team never responds, but they have a good support team. So far 20 emails exchanged, Both HDDs changed, RAID chaged, OS reinstalled (yes, I am way too lazy to use the ILO) and now they are swapping my blade, cause of the IO performance. The support answers in the matter of minutes.
first error - Missing firmware files - bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw ,
skip it then face another
No Ethernet Card was detected.
There was no need to do that. Get this iso with integrated drivers.works like charm
i killed the infamous raid 1 and im installing again on raid 0
here..http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/6.0.5/i386/iso-cd/
F11 to accept and continue the installer, but every time I click on F11, my IE window goes to full screen...anyway to disable that?
EDIT: Solved by set F11 as a hot key, LOL
Also the direction keys don't work, does any one of you know how to enable it? This iLO is really hard to use...
And I've installed in a single drive... :P
Direction keys work here in Firefox on Mac and Windows.
Can you use Firefox with remote console? Mine was disabled when I tried to run in FF, got a message saying only IE is allowed
One requires IE, another works in both. Forget which one it is, there's like 3 options.
Trial and error for me then, thanks a lot
The last ones are java stuff (I haven't tried btw).
I am having lots of fun with proxmox !!!
May be that's what I should do as well...wasted one whole day and still installing, LOL
The last two are Java-based, though "Remote Console" is probably the one you want. Java-based, worked for me in Opera and Chrome (and IE)
They installed Proxmox for you? When I requested it they said it was not compatible with the hardware..
Each day when I see this thread I always think it's new stocks
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No, I did it
How's proxmox going? What size ram vms did you create? Decent IO?
I changed the cache ratio to 100/0 read/write and changed the SCSI Controller in vmware to "LSI Logic SAS" now I get 107-118 MB/s