lh3 netserver

[Ray McMullen]

just bought a p2/350. I know it it is a little out of date but I wish to use it as an entry level internet portal for hosting web pages hopefully multible web sites. My question is, What is my best upgradable options and the best os for planned appiclations. thoughts, upgrading motherboard, duel 600 p3 processors 4/256 mem chips, 6/ 72 gig hd. What is the best raid and redundency for 24/7 operation. Looking for the best over solution.

[amhakassa]

Hi Ray,

The Max processor you can upgrade to is
2 x 600 MHz Pentium III / 512kb Cache

This server has 4 memory slots and the MAX supported in eaach slot is 256 MB so you can have
4 x 256MB REGISTERED 100Mhz ECC SDRAM DIMM (which will be 1GB Memory)

The part# for the processor is D9342A and the part# for the memory will be D6099A

Windows 2000 server and Advanced server are supported in this server

Regards
Amha Kassa

[Terri Harris]

All excellent information from Amhakassa.

Most common RAID is a RAID 5 (for all 6 drives). For added protection you may want to consider 2 x 72 GB in a RAID 1 (mirror), then 4 x 72 GB for your data.

I'm assuming you do not have the optional 2nd hot swap drive cage, which means all six drives must go in the one drive cage.

I am also assuming server has the default two power supplies (in one power supply cage, can have up to 2 PS cages = total 4 PS possible). With six 72 GB drives I would consider adding the 3rd power supply - this does require the purchase of the 2nd power supply cage AND will add a power cord (total of 2) for the server. Note that just 2 power supplies does not provide redundancy - 2 are required to power the server.

Make sure the following are current, update if necessary before installing your OS:

- System BIOS
- integrated NetRAID FW
- HS Backplane FW

Updates (and the HP drivers for the supported OS's) are here:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?locale=en_US&pnameOID=15389&taskId=135&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=50448〈=en&cc=us

The LH3 was one of the best and most durable NetServer models made, hope you will be happy with it.