I’m looking at new servers, and I see many of these Gen8 HPE servers have this error for sale. I’ve read somewhere it’s a common problem, many of them are affected.

My question is: For a home server, do I need iLO at all?

I don’t care if I can’t remotely restart the server, or remotely check its health. Apart from remote management, is iLO needed at all?

What will I miss if the server has this error? Is it going to be problematic to have this server in any way, or is it fine?

  • N00b1nat0r@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can try and clear it by updating the firmware, failing that you can try one more thing which is a repair of the iLO install, however once it’s got to this state its highly likely that the NAND is now fubar. It doesn’t stop iLO working as I have a 2nd hand Microserver with the same issue and tried the fixes, but they didn’t work, and as such, it’s showing the error constantly. The only way to fully fix in the unfixable state is a board swap.