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Can Kerio Control be installed on HP?
Greetings, Comrades!
Actually, the HPE Proliant DL120 Gen9 server was purchased neatly under Kerio Control. I thought I would install, deploy ISO and that's it, but as it turned out, Kerio refuses to make friends with HP hardware, as evidenced by a bunch of complaints on the Internet. I didn’t even think that some problems might arise, so I didn’t scour the internet for hardware for kerio. the requirements were minimal. Even on the Kerio website nothing is written about problems with HP servers and that their software product will not work on bare metal.
The answer from Kerio technical support was obvious:
"Unfortunately, at the moment Kerio Control uses 32-bit Debian, for this reason there are problems installing on Hewlett Packard equipment. Kerio Control also does NOT support working with RAID arrays. The Kerio Control application development department is aware of problems installing on equipment Hewlett Packard is also planning to release a 64-bit system at the beginning of the new year, which is why we recommend using a hypervisor."
Why Kerio specialists cannot add this information to the page with the program is not clear to me, because the problem, as I understand it, is not a single one and a lot of people are faced with this.
Attention question!
1) Did anyone manage to get Kerio on a piece of iron from HP?
2) Has anyone got Kerio without problems on a piece of iron from another vendor? Dell, IBM, etc. It is desirable to indicate the model on which it works.
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If anyone is interested, here is the answer from the developers:
Well, after some discussion with developers it seems that it's just possible that your HP hardware is unsupported. The problem probably does not involve the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit images. It's just possible that your HW requires UEFI boot, which is unsupported by Control. You should check boot settings if there's switch from UEFI to legacy BIOS booting. Anyway, the performance benefit of running Control on bare HP 830011-B21 would not be high. If you overcome the booting issue, you may face other ones (eg that only one CPU core is used). I would highly recommend to use virtualization on your hardware.
You can try to install current 64-bit Debian using its ISO image. If it works, it *might* be possible to fix the booting issue in Control. Please let us know if you manage to install Debian on your system.
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