As you may recall from my last post here, I am trying to run two Xeon CPUs and a lot of memory, thus I need the HP Redundant fan configuration. I purchased the wrong fan (Part Number: 519740-001), thinking I can use it in the redundant fan slots. As you found out, I discovered HP Part number 513927-B21 / now revised as 519737-001, to be the correct option.
I jumped on ebay and ordered 519737-001 and had it delivered a few days ago. Once I got home from work, I opened up the server and I hoped that the server starrs would all align and my concerns would be nulled.
VOILA!!!!!!!!
The fan/server work fine and this should be all I need. Of course I could add the 4th fan for further redundancy, but until these fans get a bit cheaper I’ll hold off.
Below I’ll show you the difference between the 519740-001 ‘System Fan’ and the 519737-001 ‘Redundant Fan’.
As you can see, the difference is quite large between the two. I’m glad I decided to spend a bit more and order the correct fan than to hack up the case and make the other system fan work. The air direction baffle sits properly over the fan/heatsinks so I’m a happy camper.
Last but not least, I fired up the server and was able to get 98,304MB of memory recognized.
The next step for the server is apply the most recent bios firmware to bring the server up to date. I was able to source the HP SPP (2017.04), which was the last SPP with G6 Support.
Now I am still unsure what to do with hard drive and storage. I have a few 2.5″ SAS drives that I could run in there but I’m uncertain what raid controller I should look for. I’ll have to do some more digging into that.
6 thoughts on “HP Ml150 G6 – Redundant Fan Sourced!”
Hello, you will have the bios of ML150 G6 please
Skopos
Hello,
Here is the URL that I found that contains some HP ML150 material.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cJ8_EHqe4B_WGsnSbuNqp-D9JpmD90A7
Hope it helps. Please let me know if you are able to get the HP ML150 Bios updated. I couldn’t get it figured out.
n01k
hey there ml150g6-owner! i am from (east)germany and my hp has two E5520 with 32GB of RAM so far… i was hoping we could help each other out with our labs. do you need more fans? is the 10gb nic working? i really enjoyed reading your blog – thank you!
scruto
Hello Scruto! I am willing to help anyway I can with! Thank you but I don’t need any more fans. I have one spare that I did purchase from aliexpress. I want to run the bare minimum if possible to avoid the excessive power consumption.
I haven’t tried the 10Gbe NIC yet. I’ve been really busy with work and sometimes I don’t have too much spare time in the evening to mess with the server. I know I said I was going to install it a few weeks back, I’ll do it 100% in the next few days. I don’t have anything to test the NIC with yet anyways. I have a HPE 2920 switch but I don’t believe it is 10Gbe capable.
What do you use your HP ML150 for?
n01k
Hello Scruto,
Sorry for the really late reply. Life has been super busy and I haven’t done a whole lot with the server.
In short, no, I couldn’t get the 10gb NIC working on the HP ML150 G6. I will follow this up with a post today or tomorrow.
n01k
Hello from 2022! I also have a Proliant ML150 G6, with 1x CPU Intel Xeon E5504. I bought another E5504 to uograde to dual cpu mode (the 2x CPUs must be exactly the same for the dual CPU mode). If you dont mind, I have a couple of questions:
1) did you manage to update the BIOS? This server had the latest BIOS from 2011 (yes, 2011!). So if you got your server in 2018, it is very unlikely it had an older, pre-2011 BIOS that can be upgraded to a more recent one. Also HP abandoned this model in 2016 completely. So in the past 6 yrs nothing has been released for it. Last BIOS (as I said) is from 2011, so its full of Intel CPU Meltdown and similar remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. The LightsOut100 is a shitty cheapo look-alike of the proper full-featured iLo remote management. Its last firmware is also from 2014, so most probably it is also full of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. Also, the shitty LightOut100 can only be accessed, if the server has successfully completed the POST procedure. So if somebody is naive, and thinks Oh lets check from the Lo100 why my server is unable to boot or finish the POST, I have a bad news: you wont be able to reach the mgmt interface, as long as the main server didnt finish the POST. Even if the mainboard completes the POST, the Lo100 interface sucks, the logs dont show anything meaningful, and it cannot do much aoart from turning On/Off the server, and see some very spartaic system health tables.
2) How did you manage to install 96GB of RAM into this server? All the forums on the internet are asking this same question. In all official HP documents, they say only maximum of 48GB possible, uaing 12x 4GB modules.
3) Processor support: officially the maximum is the E5540. However, some tried the x5600-series, with varying success. There is a rumour, that some of the G6 series (ML, DL, 100, 150, 360, 380? unclear) may support the Xeon x5600-series, because their chipset is not the older 5500-series chipset, but some never 55xx-series.
4) The P410 raid controller is also a rip-off from HP. You need to buy cache memory module, capacitor pack, cable between the cache memory and the capacitor module. Then its not even enough for raid6, you have to also purchase an Advanced Raid license key, to activate the raid6.
Thats for the moment, I hope you are still reading comments for these older posts, and reply back soon. Thanks!
soder