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In preparation for working with Boot from SAN and other high network requirement work with my Synology, I looked into getting a 10gbe adapter. Unfortunately, the Synology Branded 10gbe Adapters are extremely expensive. I was lucky enough to have a Mellanox ConnectX-2 Card kicking around. These single port 10gbe cards can be found on eBay …
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One of the things I like to have in my lab environment is the ability to monitoring all OSes and keep an eye on such things as temperatures, disk space, and other sensors. I was disheartened to find that UnRAID 6 did not have SNMP installed or configured. After some searching I was able to figure …
I recently had user colicstew comment that they could not get Freenas 9.10.2 U3 to see drives on his LSI2116. Luckily I have some unused 2TB Drives and LSI 2116 Controller as part of my Xeon D Lab. First step was to passthrough my LSI2116 Controller and Reboot the Server. You should see Enabled/Active for …
I’m in the process of converting my Lab Environment into a separated Storage Server and Virtualization platform. Today we will focus on the Software RAID Storage Server side with UnRAID. I’m using the below setup for a Test Bench. Under no circumstances should you use a Desktop Setup for Production use, but for just a …
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 …
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. …
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