HP Proliant MicroServer Gen8 - SAS/SATA RAID Controller

This is where I install Caddy Adaptor & SAS/SATA RAID card in the HP Proliant MicroServer Gen8 so I can boot from the Caddy adaptor and use the front Hard Drive slot on ServeRAID card focus on RAID & file Storage. This is useful as a File Server.

00:00 = Installing
17:46 = Demonstration

Parts installed:
Add: SATA HDD Caddy Adaptor
Add: Mini-SAS SFF-8087 to 4 SATA Cable
Add: SATA 22 Pin Male to Hard Drive Slimline Micro SATA 16 pin Adapter
Add: IBM LSI ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA PCIe RAID Controller
Add: 4pin FDD to SATA Converter Cable (similar to Dell MX714)

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#Gen8

[jonton]

Hey man just want to say thanks for the great videos, these have helped me get everything setup! much appreciated :).

[wolfman]

If you have a smaller old sata ssd you could use it as a cache drive from the spare connection.

[susinthirans]

Why not use the 5th SATA port with blue color if it's just about adding the 5th disk? Seems a bit overkill to use 8 ports SAS/SATA controller for this. If one needs more than 5 disks, then i understand addition of the controller. This board has internal USB + sdcard reader so i'd have installed the OS on either of them to save disk 'bays' :)

[GuyBarry]

I know this is a bit old now so hope you still read the comments.. I've got got this server, but I've given up on using Windows as the OS. I've been testing various flavours of Linux, and can get almost everything working, but the one thing I really want to do is use a bare metal Hypervisor like Citrix Xenserver, or ProxMox (or even vSphere) to create a local mini datacenter into which I can spin up virtual machines. The biggest pain when using any of these hypervisors in the context of the HP server has been the forced software raid in the embedded slot, and swapping this out to a proper raid controller seems like it might solve the problem. I really don't want to use ZFS because of the cost (both in terms of storage redundancy as well as financially), and am very keen to use raid1. I was fixated on the entire video until the very end, when I saw you booted up into Windows Server 2012. So the question I'd love to know the answer to.. does my cranky old HP Proliant Gen8 Microserver need to boot into Windows as the OS when using that controller, or does the card operate independently to the OS so that I can continue with my complete divorce from Windows Server 2012-R2?

[radupoenaru]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial. Can you please also explain if there is a way to later upgrade the capacity of the drives? Is it possible to replace them one by one from 3TB to 6TB?

[KingLouieX]

Let me get this straight there are no sata ports on this mother board? If so could you just use the sata out of the caddy, if there is one, install the nas software on it, then add the drives and create your raid array?...

[bigo]

I currently run xpenology on my g1610t with just 4 drives.

I read on a forum someone used 3 gen7 microservers and got it to run where it used the other 2 microservers as expansions, so they had a 12 bay NAS.

Will using this help me to do something similar with my g1610t?

[filippogasbarro]

Hi, which GPU is mounted by default in HP Microservers?

[tangourou]

hi can i use SAS HP-300 GB-HOT Plug-Hard-Drive?

[yutongful]

I am curious does the add-on raid card make the 4 drive bays hot-plug capable?