adding extra NIC to hp proliant dl180 g5

[amin tavakoli]

Hello

I need to add an extra NIC to my HP Proliant DL180 G5 server.
Could you help me where can I add it?

The other problem is, I have 4 SAS hard disks. I need to add 1 estra SATA disk. does it degrade the speed and perfomance of my SAS disks?

Thank you.

[Terry Hutchings]

Not sure I understand the first question......Are you asking where the PCI slots are? If so, you will need to pull the cover off and to the left hand side, in the rear, you will see the PCI riser board. You can add the NIC there.

The question regarding the additional SATA disk is mainly dependant on whether you plan on making that new drive part of the existing array. If you are planning on doing this then it will cause all of the other (SAS) drives to perform poorer. If you create a new array with a new logical drive it should not cause any issues with the SAS drives.

[amin tavakoli]

I need to add an extra NIC to my HP Proliant DL180 G5 server. There is a RAID controller card installed which covers up the PCIe slots

Could you help me where can I add it?

[Terry Hutchings]

This server has only 2 full height PCIe slots available. If the only thing in the PCi slots is the smart array controller then you should still have another available.

In order to install an additional PCI card it will require the riser actually be removed from the server to install the additional card.

[KarloChacon]

hi

these are all the NICs supported
HP NC110T PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter
NOTE: Does not support Windows 2000.
434905-B21
HP NC360T PCI Express Dual Port Gigabit Server Adapter
412648-B21
HP NC364T PCI Express Quad Port Gigabit Server Adapter
NOTE: Does not support Windows 2000.
435508-B21
HP NC373F PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
394793-B21
HP NC373T PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
394791-B21
HP NC380T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
NOTE: Supported on a Full Length-Full Height slot only.
394795-B21
HP NC510C PCIe 10 Gigabit Server Adapter
NOTE: A minimum of 1 gigabyte (1 GB) of server memory is required per each NC510C adapter.
414129-B21
HP NC510F PCIe 10 Gigabit Server Adapter
NOTE: A minimum of 1 gigabyte (1 GB) of server memory is required per each NC510F adapter.
414126-B21

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12903_na/12903_na.html#Core%20Options

second question

if you controller supports both Types of HDDs won't be any performance issue

regards