Starting a thread on the HP DL180 G6 server. For those wondering - it is a 2U server that takes up to two LGA1366 Intel Xeon 5500 or 5600 series CPUs. dba found these servers and a deal where I purchased mine for around $500 with 2x Intel Xeon L5630 CPUs 2x 2GB DDR3 DIMMs, an a HP P410 RAID controller with 256MB of RAM.
Here's an ebay search I'm using for finding low cost HP DL180 G6 units
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Internal HP DL180 G6 View with HP P410
Top view
ILO 100 Default Username and Password
Still looking for this one. Mine did not work with Administrator / Administrator or Operator / Operator. The system also did not come with a cardboard insert with the default password.
Note: My unit also did not show up with DHCP name and serial number as the server name. I did lookup an IP address for the mac address of d8:d3:85 and that showed up as an HP block which led me to the iLO web interface.
Storage configuration
12x front 3.5" drives fed via a backplane with a SAS expander. The SAS expander is connected with a SFF-8087 cable.
2x rear 3.5" drives fed via 2x 7-pin SAS/ SATA connectors. These are fed by the SAS expander PCB by default but one can easily connect a short SATA cable directly to the motherboard.
Power Consumption
2x Intel Xeon L5630
1x Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD
6x Kingston 8GB RDIMMs
Latest BIOS/ firmware as of 5/8/2013
Idle Power Consumption Ubuntu 12.04: 77w
Max Power Consumption Ubuntu 12.04: 165w observed thus far
More to come
Here's an ebay search I'm using for finding low cost HP DL180 G6 units
Photos
Internal HP DL180 G6 View with HP P410
Top view
ILO 100 Default Username and Password
Still looking for this one. Mine did not work with Administrator / Administrator or Operator / Operator. The system also did not come with a cardboard insert with the default password.
Note: My unit also did not show up with DHCP name and serial number as the server name. I did lookup an IP address for the mac address of d8:d3:85 and that showed up as an HP block which led me to the iLO web interface.
Storage configuration
12x front 3.5" drives fed via a backplane with a SAS expander. The SAS expander is connected with a SFF-8087 cable.
2x rear 3.5" drives fed via 2x 7-pin SAS/ SATA connectors. These are fed by the SAS expander PCB by default but one can easily connect a short SATA cable directly to the motherboard.
Power Consumption
2x Intel Xeon L5630
1x Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD
6x Kingston 8GB RDIMMs
Latest BIOS/ firmware as of 5/8/2013
Idle Power Consumption Ubuntu 12.04: 77w
Max Power Consumption Ubuntu 12.04: 165w observed thus far
More to come