• Network Switch INSIDE server.
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Our data center wants to charge us 15 dollars extra to use another port, and i want to use the iLo feature on my HP Proliant, without paying for another port. I already found a spot for the switch to fit, but the next problem is supplying power to the switch. There are no open power connectors (1 to motherboard, 6pin in the SCSI array). Any ideas on how to supply 12v power to this switch?
[QUOTE=patdaman45;23349656]Our data center wants to charge us 15 dollars extra to use another port, and i want to use the iLo feature on my HP Proliant, without paying for another port. I already found a spot for the switch to fit, but the next problem is supplying power to the switch. There are no open power connectors (1 to motherboard, 6pin in the SCSI array). Any ideas on how to supply 12v power to this switch?[/QUOTE] My proliant 1810g needs 30W, so even if you leached this off the 12v CPU line (no idea how you'd transform it back to 240/110v) it would only draw 2.5A, which I'm sure the PSU could handle. Maybe if you had a switch to sacrifice you could open it up and see if you could bypass the transformer inside and give it the DC directly?
I'd just get a fan with a molex connecter, cut the fan off and bastardise on a 12V jack.
I was thinking the same, but there are no open molex connectors. I could just get a 6pin Y Cable, but i'm not sure what pins i would hook the switch into. [img]http://www.certtalk.com/kb/article_images/702/fig-5.gif[/img]
Just need 1 12V Rail and 1 Ground rail.
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