My previous server was a Gen8 ProLiant server from HP, and I had been running my blog on it since October 2015. I found a Gen10+ ProLiant server with the same configuration of drives, but with processing power x2 and memory x4, at a very reasonable price. I considered the upgrade to be just plug-and-play, but I had forgotten that, even though all the drives would be from the old server, the BIOS was different!!
I am currently running Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS, which works on ProLiant servers, but requires specific BIOS settings:
- Ubuntu Server 20.04 prefers to have a Legacy BIOS.
- HP’s Intelligent Provisioning is incompatible with Ubuntu Server, so has to be disabled.
- My fiddling with the UEFI BIOS and Intelligent Provisioning reordered the drives, so my SDA became SDE for /boot, SDB became SDA for / and /home, SDC became SDB for /mnt and /mnt/home, SDD became SDC for /var1 and /opt1, and SDE became SDB for /mnt/var1 and /mnt/opt1. However, there were also many other variations until the server finally booted with all of the drives visible.
Anyway, barring some brief outages for teething problems, my blog server should now be quicker and more stable.
In the next few weeks look out for the following:
- Second editions of my recent books can be downloaded at discounted prices until 31May2025 from the Book Table.
- Issue 79 of VIEWS News is scheduled for publication around the end of May 2025. Issue 78 was published earlier this month.
- The GA release of Altair SLC 2025 was published earlier this month.