HP ProLiant DL360 G6 Teardown and Maintenance - The Electronics Inside

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I needed to do maintenance on some kit at home, so of course I thought I'd bring you along for the ride! Specifically for this episode, I'll break open my beefy 1u server that I use for rendering videos, which needs some love and has an ongoing issue or two. It's an HP ProLiant DL360 G6, and generally speaking commercial machines tend to be friendly to being repaired, but we shall see! bit.ly/3NaVU3M
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#0:00 The Electronics Inside
#0:43 Server Maintenance
#16:11 Give your Feedback
#hewlettpackard #teardown #electronics

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@PeterRounce 2 года назад

MicroSD card can be used as a VMWare boot device. iDRAC etc is "out-of-band" management!

@paulrobertmarino7623 2 года назад

I've used it for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, similar to VMware ESXi you basically have a 300Mb read only boot partition and a configuration file which basically tells it what management server to contact on boot for the rest of its configuration. I've also used the for 100Gbps edge firewalls where we had a small read only boot partition and wrote all its logs remotely. This SD card boot functionality is particularly helpful if you need to use it as an embedded device with serious horse power that in normal operation should never write to the disk, the slot will honor the read only switch on the side of the SD card for these use cases. The USB port is for something you see in some specialized applications, while it can be used for booting that's not what its for. Some types of (expensive and specialized) software require USB dongle be inserted to start or unlock features of an application, in these cases you don't want to use the USB ports on the back or front incase because a passer by might take it thinking it a regular UBS thumb drive some one just accidentally left in the machine so you use the internal USB port for these license dongles.

@drsaif343 2 года назад

As an ordinary non specialised. This episode is fantastic. I never imagined a server to look like this. Thank you for the eye opening experience.

@a531016 2 года назад

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@jjjacer 2 года назад

@15:44 USB and SD-Card can be used to boot VMWare or other OS (although best to choose an OS that doesnt write to much to the SD/USB as it will wear it out fast - my ProxMox server did in about 1yr), the iLO management can be nice (intergrated lights out) as you can remotely control the server from another computer including powering off and on, virtual console, and being able to use CD images to boot from and install an OS remotely. although IIRC this machine will be on iLO 2 which is very limited and works best in IE with Java6 (iLO 4/5 started to support HTML5 for remote access)

@a531016 2 года назад

Spot on, and with the death of IE, iLO 2 is serverly in trouble - at least I can still SSH into it! I can also use other desktop based clients for this too.

@metrotechguru5863 Год назад

Very nice video. Thanks.

@element14presents Год назад

Glad you liked it!

@RickMunday 2 года назад

SD card is meant for booting in virtualization environments like ESXi and etc. I'm sure the USB probably works the same way, but I have only ever used the SD/mSD. Part of me is thinking this wasn't alternate method for BMC updates, but I can't remember for sure. And that may have been Dell that allowed that and not HP. Out of Band(s) management.

@a531016 2 года назад

Yes, and sorry for the slip of the tounge there!

@-ColorMehJewish- Год назад

I was planning on tossing EXSi or ProxMox on my DL360 G6 (just picked up 2 new CPU's for it). I was interested in why this had an SD too --- thank you for the info. I will be trying it out tomorrow afternoon 👍 I appreciate that

@garthhowe297 2 года назад

Before retiring, I had installed hundreds of HP rackmount servers. The DL360 is a well made 1U Server, but my favourite was the DL380 2U Server. The larger form factor used larger fans, and was therefore quieter. The larger enclosure also allowed better airflow... better cooling. Although server failures were rare with the Proliants, the 1U models, in my experience, had a much higher failure rate, which I attribute to the tight quarters for the components. And from an installer point of view... a rack full of 1U Servers is a nightmare to cable cleanly... lol.

@trashtronics1700 Год назад

Funny enough just picked up a dl380g4 for 10$ and a dl385 g2 I believe for 20

@longnamedude3947 2 года назад

Their is a lot of mis-use of nomenclature in this video. You mention that "SATA 3" runs a 6 Gigabytes-per-second (6GB/s), and when you have two of your Harddrives togther then you get a peak throughput of 12 Gigabytes-per-second (12GB/s). All of the above is WRONG. SATA/SAS speeds are measured in Gigabits-per-second (Gbps or Gb/s) so your peak total throughput of a single SATA 3 drive is limited too 600MB/s and NOT 6000MB/s. Also, you mention the internal USB port.... That port is so you can install a USB-based Flash Device which can host the servers Operating System on-board & internally, thus free-ing up drive sleds at the front for storage only. It is typically used in Virtual Machine Hypervisor Setups. Nice video, just required a brush up on the wording as this can create a lot of confusion for people new to this kind of stuff.

@a531016 2 года назад

I was looking for a really quick way of describing the concept here, not an in depth detailed dive into controller overheads and combined write speed, or the pros and cons of various raid levels. With that said, I'm sorry I slipped and said bytes not bits - that's the kind of thing that bugs me too, and I said it this time! Also, yes, additional boot devices! I don't know why that didn't occur to me at the time, but it seems really obvious after the fact!

@edincausevic4934 Месяц назад

On my server, when I install the second CPU, the server doesn't start, starts up briefly and does a boot loop, what could be the problem??, I've tried almost everything..!