HP zl Advanced Services V2 experiment

I recently replaced my venerable HP 2848 gigabit ethernet switch that operated as my primary LAN switch with an HP 5406zl chassis switch. I picked the 5400 series due to the availability of 10GigE and POE, plus the availability of services modules.

I ended up picking up a pair of HP J9857A Advanced services V2 modules. These modules feature a quad-core i7-3612QE, 16GB of DDR3 ECC, 2x SD card slots (USB 2.0), a 1TB SATA HDD, 2x 10GigE (internal), 2x 1GigE (1 internal, 1 external). My hope is to get Proxmox running on both of them in a cluster.

So far, I've found out a few interesting things:
- The HP Service OS on the included 4GB SD card is actually a Debian Linux live environment. The card is two partitions with a Primary and Secondary boot.
- You can boot a standard modern 64-bit Debian from an SD card by running the " services # boot service " command
- /dev/ttyS0 at 9600 connects to the serial port for the " services # serial " command

It looks like it might be a rather successful experiment eventually.