Thread: HP DL Series (1U)

Hi Mav,

One if our clients is running a DL140, running CentOS, seems very happy with it, has had it for around 8 months now - I believe it was very easy to install as well (I didn't install it myself) - got it for quite a nice price too on dabs I think.

Cheers,
Sean

Actually - Just to clarify there he has had no problems running CentOS, he did have problems trying to run RH9 and apparently FC2 didn't support the NICs very well, but that was 8 months ago.

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Hi Mav,

I have 2 DL360 G3's in my rack. The dual xeon models. They are awesome servers, never once crashed, never gone down, can't fault them at all.

Originally Posted by Mavhuey

Has anyone got any experience, good or bad, with the HP DL series ?

I'm looking at the 1U models, 140, 145, 320 and 360...

I'd be interested to hear opinions.

Thanking you...

- Mav

We've recently changed to using HP 1U servers instead of SuperMicro and others. Very impressed so far - we have two DL320s with a third going in soon and no problems at all. Installation is very smooth with a rather clever installation CD. We did have one HP server delivered DOA, which was a pain, but I think that's quite an exception.

We use all DL380 servers, and deploy them, 580's and 140's mainly. We found the 320's good but the 360 not worth it when compared with a 380 of the same spec (gap was far too small), but then I guess you pay for the 1U factor.

All in all, amazingly solid machines, we've lost maybe 2 disks and 1psu over 2 years and hundreds of servers - highly recommended.

I don't think there's a lot in the quality between supermicro, dell, hp and ibm, they're all big names and seem to be fairly solid in my experience.

Originally Posted by Mavhuey

Has anyone got any experience, good or bad, with the HP DL series ?
I'm looking at the 1U models, 140, 145, 320 and 360...

The 360's are nice machines - following on from the Compaq DL360 series.

Not a lot to choose between them, the dell 1850 and the supermicro 811i based machines - all similar specs/quality.

I've been running a DL130 for my own personal use for a little while now, running Slackware, no complaints, lovely little machine, well built. I realise its not in your model list but thought I'd throw in my two pence worth

I set up four DL360s for a customer last year as part of a cluster. The servers seemed extremely well built, a bit more solid than the equivalent Dell servers.

I hope I'm not jinxing anything by saying I've had no problems at all with them