Reply To: HPE E208i-p Raid Card HI all, So it seems the only raid card supported by HP is the HPE E208i-p raid card. Whilst I’m loathed spent the £200 on the card, it is looking…

[kev2021]

Hi all

So update here….

Yesterday I contacted the company again re the memory as no email, call, nothing.  It turns out they have now put in a claim for the missing memory to parcelforce so do i want a replacement or refund, I tell them replacement, they sent it out yesterday advising woudl prob come Wednesday but late yesterday night i got a email from parcel force saying its coming Tuesday (today) so was a bit dubious as seemed a bit too quick but it has arrived today!  Fitted into the server and now it is showing 32GB of ram!

Also, i’ve now set the fan speed back to what is was by default but set the minimum speed to 10% and no overheating issues on boot up so all looks good on that front, been few days of it being on and off etc so looks lke it was the 850SSD, either didn’t like the drive (despite Samsung Magician saying its all ok) or it didn’t like the 2 different drive types in the raid but either way happy no errors and also no 20second delay on boot up each time :)

So server will now be moved to its perm home finally :)  So just the VMs to sort out now, decided I’m going to move some off to a different drive elsewhere for now to free up some space as weirdly esxi 7.0 must do something different with formatting etc as it reckons only around 350GB free space now and I’ve only created 2 additional VMs (thin provisioned) and i only have 1TB drives before so some how I’ve either forgotten I’ve done something or its using up more disk space than esxi 6.0 some how.

Also as for extending the C drive in Virtual machine, I cannot find a free utility that will do this on windows 2002 server (Windows 2002 server adds a health/recovery partition after C drive), anyone know of one?  I tried some but that all look like they will work, when I choose to actually do it they say you need to buy…

Thanks

Kev

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