no kidding my dl360G6 with e5620 and 8 256 ssd pulls 99 watts idling with redundant 460's (99 watts @ 124VAC) according to kill-a-watts, 72gb of ram,9260-8i with fastpath/cc hardware key, nc360t . I'll say its noisy but the power that 1U packs is quite tremendous.
ILO licensing? come on man..
Yeah they are cracking 1U units, I had a fully loaded G7 as stated but with full SAS array not SSD, will check what my main box is pulling with a kill-a-watt as I'm just going by what my 5u UPS is reading and when I powered off the server today it's still showing a 4.3% load so my guess was way off!
Noise is an issue here as it's just a 4 bedroom house and the smallest bedroom is the "Server" room, I also have to work in there too so don't want lots of noise annoying me.
As much as I'm tempted to get another HP box, as I'm now self employed I can't just "Loan" things any more and I cannot justify buying another box as this E3 build is only a few weeks old and I'm really happy with it's performance for home use.
I did put 2x HP enterprise drives in yesterday and put OI + Napp-it, with the LSI2308 passed through running the 5K3000's and runs really well.
I'll put the 2xHP drives and 5K3000's on the LSI2308 and run 2 pools, ZFS datastore and ZFS storage, with a SSD on the mainboard hosting Solaris/Napp-it
Also, with the HP server you mentioned earlier on, would that not be another chicken and egg situation with ESXi as it's software RAID and would need an OS to utilise even a mirror, so would need to use a card in that instance anyway.
Well I can't get iLO for free any more, I'm all out of licences unless I speak to someone in my old job who would let me have some for "evaluation" purposes lol