{"id":126,"date":"2020-08-30T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T08:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2020-08-30T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T08:59:09","slug":"hp-microserver-gen8-and-centos-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"HP Microserver Gen8 and Centos 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=text-align:left;><a class=\"wpptopdfenh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noindex,nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/?p=126&#038;format=pdf\" title=\"Download PDF\"><img alt=\"Download PDF\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-post-to-pdf-enhanced\/asset\/images\/pdf.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Over the last few years HP have had deals on Microservers, which means a lot of people have GEN8 servers around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These micro servers have a lot of expansion, you get a generic cheap 2 core processor that you can update to an 8 core if you look carefully everything else is pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now with the release of RedHat\/Centos 8 there are now problems with the software raid controller, HP havent released a driver for it, so you can use the controller in native SATA mode, but raid wont work. A way to get around this is to purchase a cheap HP p410\/p420 raid card from Ebay, put that in the free slot and plug your sata drives into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok you loose the slot, but the microserver has an extension to its life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few years HP have had deals on Microservers, which means a lot of people have GEN8 servers around. These micro servers have a lot of expansion, you get a generic cheap 2 core processor that you can update to an 8 core if you look carefully everything else is pretty good. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gadgetdude.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}