Looks to me as if you are installing the WHS version... You should install the windows 7/ vista version. I have it working on WHS 2011 fine!
HP Proliant Microserver
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Main system: SB Touch, Arcam A85, Tannoy V4i speakers
SB Classic into JVC R-1XL Stereo Receiver and JPW bookshelf speakers (an Ebay/ Freecycle set up!)
SB Boom, Logitech Z4 subwoofer
SB Radio
LMS 7.8.0 running on WHS 2011 on a HP Prolaint Microserver
Orange Squeeze/ Squeeze Commander on Google Nexus 7 and HTC One -
If this is a question for me, I have LMS 7.7.2 working absolutely fine on WHS 2011 - you just need to download the Windows 7/ Vista version and install it. If you read the rest of this thread (daunting, I know!) there are many recommendations - Vortexbox is something I would have looked at had WHS not worked for me.
JMain system: SB Touch, Arcam A85, Tannoy V4i speakers
SB Classic into JVC R-1XL Stereo Receiver and JPW bookshelf speakers (an Ebay/ Freecycle set up!)
SB Boom, Logitech Z4 subwoofer
SB Radio
LMS 7.8.0 running on WHS 2011 on a HP Prolaint Microserver
Orange Squeeze/ Squeeze Commander on Google Nexus 7 and HTC OneComment
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New HP Microserver
I came from a system based on Dockstar/Squeezeplug but after this thread I decided to buy the Microserver (the new one, the N40L) also because the collection of my music (about 55.000 songs) is slowing down the time response of my 5 players. The Dockstar is really great for a music collection not too large (I think not more than 30/40K), but the Microserver give me now an unknown speed (and space for 3 more hd to store my photo and films).
Thanks to all those who have convinced me to switch to Microserver!
Riccardo
P.S.: The DockStar not 'been abandoned, when I want to power off the Microserver I use it to backup especially to display the plugins (SuperDateTime) and instant access to web radio (with his 5W of power consumption).1 Touch, 1 Duet, 3 Boom, some SOC (Odroid, RPi3, RpiZeroW) as players. 1 SB v.1 (now unused), 1 SB Classic, broken,
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Anyone interested in the HP Proliant Microserver needs to keep an eye on HP's cashback offers. There was one just ended on 31st Aug which made the effective cost £117 (from Misco).
Interestingly there was an offer on the HP ProLiant ML110 G7 G840 (Intel Pentium G840 2.8 GHz, 2GB RAM, 250 GB HDD) which brought the price down to £127 (also from Misco)! It has 4 HDD capacity, etc, etc.
I already have the earlier generation of Microserver but the ML110 might be interesting for someone who needs more processing power. Though I have no idea whether there are any issues in setting it up with unbuntu, etc.Allo Digione Signature (+LiFePo Batteries), Touch, Metrum Jade, Bryston B4 SST2, PMC OB1i speakers, HP Proliant Microserver/Ubuntu, PC/Windows 10, iPad 4, iPeng.Comment
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I'm interested in one of these - may take the plunge, cashback offer still there it seems.
What's the current consensus on easiest way to get LMS running on it? VortexBox? WHS?muso developer
6 x SB3, 4 x SBBoom, 1 x SBTouch, rPi-4 based LMS on 2TB SSD (92,000+ tracks)
Marantz, Denyo, Bantam & FosiAudio amps,
Harbeth, Mordaunt Short & Monitor Audio speakers
Heed Canamp + Beyerdynamic DT880 headphones
Fiio K7 + Hifiman planar headphonesComment
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the GUI for the VB, which you can access on any other pc on your network, is excellent and user friendly and you can update your VB from that GUI. Note ,however, that sometimes bugs occur on the GUI updates which mean you need to update from the command line. the advice on the VB forum is update from the command line only. You need to be prepared for this if you are someone that likes their system totally up to date (the updates are constant - i do mine about once a fortnight now - if you leave it a long time between updates then you end up with a LOT to update)Comment
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I bought the n40l from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. I am running it headless using Win 7 Ultimate. I particularly wanted to mirror my drives so I added have 2 x 2tb drives for the 1.5 tb of music and the supplied 250Gb drive has the O/S and LMS.
I use TightVNC to access the machine as required.
I have found it to work really well for me. The only downsides are the lack of Sleep functionality. It does do Hibernate but I'm not fully comfortable with that yet. I think the Win 7 mirroring doesn't really like Hibernation. So I have the Hiberbate After value set really high and just VNC on and shut it down at night. When I get in from work I'll just switch it on.
To be honest, if I wasn't so obsessed about redundancy (and yes I also have backup to usb drives which are kept offsite) I would probably have put Vortexbox on it. I've tried that a couple of times and would have used it this time but from what I can see the latest version does not support ay kind of RAID installation.
Hope that helps.....Naim SuperUniti0, Focal Cobalt 816.
Boom
SB Radio
2 x UE Radio running as SBComment
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if you are only familiar with windows based systems, then WHS would probably be the "easiest" (in the sense that you will already be familiar with what you need to do). However, i recommend vortexbox - its free for a start whereas WHS isnt. I had never set up a server before or used anything other than windows ,and the VB install was easy (once i had realised that to use RAID0 i needed to use two drives of identical size!). Most people run the VB headless and log into it, to access the command line (if necessary) via cryptoterm or putty -i use cryptoterm.
the GUI for the VB, which you can access on any other pc on your network, is excellent and user friendly and you can update your VB from that GUI. Note ,however, that sometimes bugs occur on the GUI updates which mean you need to update from the command line. the advice on the VB forum is update from the command line only. You need to be prepared for this if you are someone that likes their system totally up to date (the updates are constant - i do mine about once a fortnight now - if you leave it a long time between updates then you end up with a LOT to update)muso developer
6 x SB3, 4 x SBBoom, 1 x SBTouch, rPi-4 based LMS on 2TB SSD (92,000+ tracks)
Marantz, Denyo, Bantam & FosiAudio amps,
Harbeth, Mordaunt Short & Monitor Audio speakers
Heed Canamp + Beyerdynamic DT880 headphones
Fiio K7 + Hifiman planar headphonesComment
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Poohsan: yes, as you'll see from my sig. below, I use VMWare ESXi.
I have also run WHS2011 as a VM, but now run it on its own on another N40L.Living room: piCorePlayer, with USB to Marantz PM7005, TDL RTL3 speakers.
Dining room: SB Boom.
Kitchen: SB Radio 1/4 with battery.
Bedroom 1: SB Radio 2/4 no battery, SB Radio 3/4 with battery.
Bedroom 2: SB Touch, AE 2.1. speakers.
Bathroom: SB Radio 4/4, white, with (and running on) battery.
Unused 3: Slim Devices SB3, Logitech SB3.
Server: LMS v7.9.2 on piCorePlayer on RPi 3.Comment
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oh cool. I also only have 4GB in mine, how well does that work for you? I may want to play with some other OSes, just for training/testing/lab work.
But in the end I would probably only run vortexbox most of the time and WHS simultaneously once in a while, though I don't really know why as I haven't used it as a media server or backup my windows PCs nearly as much as I was planning to.
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oh cool. I also only have 4GB in mine, how well does that work for you? I may want to play with some other OSes, just for training/testing/lab work.
But in the end I would probably only run vortexbox most of the time and WHS simultaneously once in a while, though I don't really know why as I haven't used it as a media server or backup my windows PCs nearly as much as I was planning to.
thanks!
I seem to recall, though, that installing Vortexbox was problemmatic, but I can't remember in what way, or whether that was when installing directly onto the N40L, or as a VM. It may have been an issue with the particular version, which may have incremented since then.Living room: piCorePlayer, with USB to Marantz PM7005, TDL RTL3 speakers.
Dining room: SB Boom.
Kitchen: SB Radio 1/4 with battery.
Bedroom 1: SB Radio 2/4 no battery, SB Radio 3/4 with battery.
Bedroom 2: SB Touch, AE 2.1. speakers.
Bathroom: SB Radio 4/4, white, with (and running on) battery.
Unused 3: Slim Devices SB3, Logitech SB3.
Server: LMS v7.9.2 on piCorePlayer on RPi 3.Comment
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