HP Proliant DL360 Gen8 upgrade for use as a home server with 4K video card, NVMe drives and 10G LAN

HP Proliant Duel 2.7 Xeon processors, HP 10GBase-T, 112TB RAID Storage, 4K Video Card, 1TB NVMe M.2 and 125GB SSD System drive all in a box to reduce noise.

[darthkielbasa]

Super cool and perfect timing. I just picked up a dl360 gen8 at an auction. Notes on the item said it was never in production and was a cold spare. My other servers are repurposed consumer hardware so this is my introduction to commercial hardware.

[wkdpaul]

Best mod for this server is the ILO fan control firmware. I have that exact model and with the modded firmware, it's dead silent and doesn't overheat.

[shephusted]

i like the creative use of cement board - the old server are too loud and use too much power but where else are you going to get that much ram capacity - no where - good content and creativity in this one

[davidhenzler]

I actually returned the card as in my case using Linux Mint, the software upgrades caused the mouse to fail. I'm assuming IRQ conflicts. I gave up on those back in the days of early Windows. Bought a MSI Nvidia card with 2G of RAM and it works flawlessly and doesn't need any updates. Not running the card at full capacity I operated the server with it for a couple days and noticed no severe heat problems. But under a load, I'm sure it would warm up.
My fans didn't ramp up. I'm using a Gen9 server and it kept quiet... fans running at 19%... Thanks for taking the time to respond....

[MTS_IT]

There is a patch for ilo (4.22 i think) that allows you control fans (and it s actually rather quiet after patching)

[mrb]

Except for the Hard Drives, all the cables, Server, Expansion hard drive bays, PCiE and so on was just over $200 even with all the extra RAM. With the dual CPU at this set up it is as fast as i9-9900K for a fraction of the price.

[bajerra]

Hey Mr. B, great job on the HP Proliant DL360 Gen8 upgrade! I really enjoyed watching your video and learning about the process of upgrading your server.
I was wondering, though - how did you connect your server to your display? Did you use an VGA-VGA or VGA-HDMI cable or something else? I'm trying to set up a similar setup at home and would love to know what cable you used. Thanks again for sharing your experience!

[bzmrgonz]

HOW OFTEN do you dust your rigs? I see a lot of sawdust ontop of the particle boards.

[davidhenzler]

Could you elaborate on how to reverse the air flow on the fan... I believe you said that you did this... I'm running a DL360gen9. Please contact me about this...

[ManDogAndCows]

do you have WIN server directly instaled? can i get my GPU to work if i have ESXi Wm ware and using virtual machines?

[RWD_Faiz]

Do you have an external PSU for the other disk outside of the server? Is it connected in anyway with the server or just running on its own?

[markuspesch]

Cool thing,
what kind of NVMe adapter did you use for your 1TB NVMe M.2?

[jeffparr]

This is far too load for a Gen 8, Yes it is somewhat loader than a PC but after the iLo initialisation the fans should wind down unless ther is an error condition. The flashing orange led on the front indicates an error.
If you are not using both PSU make ensure that the unused one is pulled out a little so it is disconected otherwise the system will interpret this as a failed PSU and with spinn the fans at full speed

[abdullatifabdu]

Hi, what kind of NVME adapter did you use for hp prolient DL360p gen 8 ?

[DiyintheGhetto]

That dual nvme drive card that connects one sata nvme and one pcie nvme. Wondering why you didn't use a dual pcie nvme ssd card? Does that server have bifurcation on it?

[xl]

What could you possibly do with 96 TB of storage ?