Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days
catloaf@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I use ebay. Not sure what the market is like in Canada.
Proxmox is great. If you ever used vCenter, you should pick it up no problem. It’s just Debian, so stick the installer in and point it at your boot drive.
Unless you have the space and need for a rack, I’d skip it. It’ll run happily no matter where you put it, in any orientation.
If it doesn’t have the iLO license, you might be able to get one from ebay as well. I’ve done that for Dells. Pretty sure it was just an outsourced Dell support tech making a couple bucks by abusing their access to the license generator. Certainly not legal, but it works just fine.
golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
That’s great to know, all four of my other machines are running Debian right now so I should have a pretty good idea of what’s up!
That probably is what I will do for some time, leaning it gently and securely against a wall somehow, but in the future rack would be nice - especially if I find some enterprise firewall for sale or something.
Also really happy to hear ebay might have iLO licenses - I have grabbed a couple one-time licences off there for windows machines before, but I didn’t know they sometimes had stuff like this too.