jamesfed Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Not to show off or anything but just in case anyone ever wondered yes a OCZ Revodrive 3 X2 SSD does indeed fit in the X16 PCIe card slot in a HP DL165 G7 server. Currently running our new Lync and App-V servers will be moving over a DC to it over the weekend - easy to say I have every monitoring tool directed at it and have backups running on it twice daily but so far it has taken everything we have thrown at it in its stride. Will post some performance specs tomorrow morning when I'm back in.
3s-gtech Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Want. Can't see why it wouldn't work in any way. TRIM support may not get through some RAID configurations, but you shouldn't need to worry too much.
jamesfed Posted December 4, 2011 Author Posted December 4, 2011 (edited) On the left is a 4x500GB 7200rpm SATA RAID5 array, on the right is the REVO Drive Edited December 4, 2011 by jamesfed
arosenau Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Did you have any issues getting the Revo Drive to work in the DL165? I have a Revo 3 X2 that I am trying to get to work in a DL 380 G7, whenever I put the card in and put the machine I get a Redscreen of Death with an Illegal Op code error. Any thoughts?
jamesfed Posted December 5, 2011 Author Posted December 5, 2011 No issues at all other than enabling some AMD specific PCI-Express setting in the BIOS. As the DL380 is a Intel server you might want to have a look around for something similar. Also I've never heard of a red screen of death - is it a HP specific thing or does your server get as far as booting into windows?
arosenau Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 It does not boot into windows it crashed right after detecting the intergrated raid controller. I will look around the bios I did try changing a few different options but had no luck
Arthur Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 It does not boot into windows it crashed right after detecting the integrated RAID controller. This sounds like the issue described below. You may have to disable your integrated RAID controller to get the RevoDrive working... Due to limited option ROM space, it is often not possible to use the RevoDrive while the onboard RAID Controller is enabled on many motherboards. ([url=http://www.ocztechnology.com/displaypage.php?name=revo_ibis_moboguide]Source[/url]) OCZ don't officially support the RevoDrive in servers, but you probably already knew this.
jamesfed Posted December 5, 2011 Author Posted December 5, 2011 Yeah I think you are looking at a BIOS thing there - in theory there is nothing HP can do to stop you using a PCI-Express card (thats why its so good against using 3.5"/2.5" drives as the RAID controler can block unkown drive types).
arosenau Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 So I tried disabling the onboard raid controller but still have the same issue
jamesfed Posted December 6, 2011 Author Posted December 6, 2011 Can I assume u've looked at this - hp proliant DL580 G3 -illegal opcode
mac_shinobi Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 How much did it cost for one of these OCZ Revo Drive PCI E Cards ?
jamesfed Posted December 6, 2011 Author Posted December 6, 2011 How much did it cost for one of these OCZ Revo Drive PCI E Cards ? About £440 ex VAT
arosenau Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 Can I assume u've looked at this - hp proliant DL580 G3 -illegal opcode I actually had not seen that. I did however finally get my card to work. I had tried taking the card out of the server and install it in my HP Workstation Z200. It would boot a little farther but then just constantly reboot never booting windows. So I decided to take the card home and install it in my home computer. (Custom built machine with ASUS motherboard.) The computer saw it right away and booted right up. I downloaded the OCZ toolbox and updated the firmware and BIOS on the card, and then took it back and installed it in the server again and it worked right away. So the server didn't like something about the version of BIOS that the card shipped with.
jamesfed Posted December 6, 2011 Author Posted December 6, 2011 I actually had not seen that. I did however finally get my card to work. I had tried taking the card out of the server and install it in my HP Workstation Z200. It would boot a little farther but then just constantly reboot never booting windows. So I decided to take the card home and install it in my home computer. (Custom built machine with ASUS motherboard.) The computer saw it right away and booted right up. I downloaded the OCZ toolbox and updated the firmware and BIOS on the card, and then took it back and installed it in the server again and it worked right away. So the server didn't like something about the version of BIOS that the card shipped with. Thanks for giving us the heads up on the fix Ours came with the latest BIOS flashed to the device - guess I might have to bring my PC from home just in case on our next SSD deployment.
swiper Posted April 3, 2012 Posted April 3, 2012 I actually had not seen that. I did however finally get my card to work. I had tried taking the card out of the server and install it in my HP Workstation Z200. It would boot a little farther but then just constantly reboot never booting windows. So I decided to take the card home and install it in my home computer. (Custom built machine with ASUS motherboard.) The computer saw it right away and booted right up. I downloaded the OCZ toolbox and updated the firmware and BIOS on the card, and then took it back and installed it in the server again and it worked right away. So the server didn't like something about the version of BIOS that the card shipped with. Sorry for bumping this, but it is the top hit when looking for revodrive compatibility with the DL380 on google so I wanted to confirm the fix and save others the messing that I went through. I had the same issue with the illegal opcode screen. I updated the firmware through their linux firmware updater which I managed to run on my CentOS 6.2 desktop. Went from 2.11 to 2.15 but still had no luck. Then I used the BIOS update through the toolbox in Windows 7 and went from 1.0.something to 1.5.something. This resolves the conflict with the HP RAID controller in the DL380 G7's. By the time you read this, a BIOS updater may be available for Linux also.
jamesfed Posted April 3, 2012 Author Posted April 3, 2012 Sorry for bumping this, but it is the top hit when looking for revodrive compatibility with the DL380 on google so I wanted to confirm the fix and save others the messing that I went through. I had the same issue with the illegal opcode screen. I updated the firmware through their linux firmware updater which I managed to run on my CentOS 6.2 desktop. Went from 2.11 to 2.15 but still had no luck. Then I used the BIOS update through the toolbox in Windows 7 and went from 1.0.something to 1.5.something. This resolves the conflict with the HP RAID controller in the DL380 G7's. By the time you read this, a BIOS updater may be available for Linux also. Thanks for posting - good to hear others are getting theirs working.
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