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In my current role, I don’t do much System Engineer work, and frankly it’s boring to not. I’ve decided that I need to keep my skills up and I’m working on rebuilding in my home lab what we had with the old team. Compiling a list this is what I need to build, and what …
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In a past job, I worked with another Senior Engineer who was big on Puppet. Before I left to take another position, I was starting to learn Puppet. I continue to try to find time to improve my skills, and as I have a working test lab I started to dig into it again. This …
I’ve been slacking a bit with getting Benchmarks out, but I’ve done some simple ones. This is the current hardware and software 6X HGST 6TB He Drives 64GB DDR4 ECC SuperMicro X10SDV-4C-TLN4F Motherboard LSI 9211-8i HBA Supermicro SSD-DM064-PHI 64GB SATA DOM (Disk on Module) Fractal Node 804 Case Intel S3710 200GB SSD (SLOG) Intel X540-T2 …
Hat tip to LifeHacker for posting about Nessus. I figured I’d give it a go on my network, and see what could be found. I’ve worked in a previous life with Security Remediation, and while not fun it’s a necessary evil now. I do this for fun, and I know as my lovely fiancee tells …
I spent a couple days off and on trying to get smartmontools to work on OmniOS. I saw some conflicting info on whether it should work out of the box, and for me at least it did not. Below is what I did to get it to work Don’t bother building from scratch. Add the …
I decided to go with OmniOS as it seems to be the OS everyone recommends for ZFS and NappIt and it works with the 10G networking. Installation went smooth and without issues Unfortunately, that was the only thing that went well. No configuration would allow me to get a 10G write above 180-190MB/s which is …
I decided to retry the OpenIndiana Install, and this time I re-downloaded the ISO. Surprisingly without issue the ISO Booted quickly. First issues I ran into was that the OpenIndiana Text Installer only saw the 6TB Drives I had installed. In order to get the installer to see the Sata DOM, I needed to remove …
I’m in the process of setting up the OS for the new NAS server, and I have to say, the OpenIndiana installer is slow
So as I was starting to do the NAS Build and I noticed an issue. I had ordered the wrong 10G Nic for my Motherboard. My motherboard uses 10G RJ45 and I ordered a NIC that uses SFPs. Also I had to add a larger Sata DOM as OmniOS and NappIt need the size. …
I had this question asked earlier today, and the plain answer is “Stuff”. I decided that I needed more expandability in the server, and since I was using a Fractal Node 804 for a gaming case, I decided to swap out the board and gaming components and put them in the Fractal Node 304. This allows …
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