May 30, 2015
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As I was migrating data from one NAS to another this week my XenServer pool master had a memory failure while I was away at work. Well after isolating the DIMM with the issue I also had to go in … Continue reading
May 7, 2015
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This week since Sunday evening I have been recovering my web site step by step and one of my NAS systems as well. This is why I have redundancy of systems and cloned systems. Still I really didn’t have my … Continue reading
April 1, 2015
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Well I finally updated my second NAS to FreeNAS 9.3 and it was not straightforward even though it has the exact same hardware build as the first NAS it crashed hard when I attempted the update and totally corrupted my … Continue reading
February 26, 2015
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Updates of FreeNAS & XenServer to Current Versions Plus Disk Upgrades Sounds like too much at one time but it was perfect since I moved all of my data to one NAS system. I have built duplicate NAS and Virtual … Continue reading
February 26, 2015
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I corrected a hardware error which had one of my my CPU turbo fans directed the wrong way in one of my NAS chassis. The past week I have been doing incremental work on getting my NAS and Virtual infrastructure … Continue reading
March 12, 2014
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Well added more functionality to both NAS systems. Yesterday I added the second Dell Perc H310 to one NAS system plus added two more 2 TB SAS 6 GB/s drives. Tonight after a very long session working on some clusters … Continue reading
January 12, 2014
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Well finished rebuilding my second NAS into a new chassis identical to the other with the same specifications as the other NAS today with a few issues. Everything went pretty much the same as the other NAS rebuild except that … Continue reading
December 14, 2013
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All in one night I took my Nagios server from running Fedora 16 to CENTOS 6.5, Updated XenCenter to the latest version 6.2.2 and updated XenServer to 6.2.0 SP1 and solved and issue where my iSCSI target was failing in … Continue reading
December 2, 2013
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Well this weekend I made great progress I built a test media server, virtualized a few old physical web servers, as well as my old but powerful XP desktop with 5 SCSI drives I just retired. I have been trying … Continue reading
November 7, 2013
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I was heading off to the bedroom to read a few pages of the latest I’m book reading while I performed a XenServer Storage motion on a couple of my virtual Linux servers after upgrading my NAS memory and storage … Continue reading
