January 8, 2023
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During the “Atmospheric River” storms here out west in California I lost house power where I run my systems. I have not established a geographical fall over for these sites when my home systems go down as it hasn’t been … Continue reading
August 10, 2020
by dhoytt
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The past months I have been doing a complete planned upheaval of my entire infrastructure. I’m adding more capacity to my NAS plus implementing better RAID and updating my FreeNAS. I’m moving my entire network to 10gbe. I’m moving all … Continue reading
January 29, 2019
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I had started testing and working stoppng and going with oVirt for the past month or so as my new hardware has started coming in but I’ve now switched my attention to XCP-ng. I have gotten so much further in … Continue reading
January 27, 2019
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Updated one of my Liebert GTX UPS and the extension cabinet. Did this earlier than I wanted since the UPS went into total failure as it seems all the batteries have reached end of life obviously as evidenced by the … 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
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
February 9, 2014
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Well I finally replaced the back-plane on the second NAS system I had built. The back-plane had come damaged and reseller had sent me a replacement a couple of weeks ago but today is the first time I had time … 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
January 1, 2014
by dhoytt
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Well in an effort to save space and go up to 6gbs environment totally eventually I rebuilt my physical NAS system. I went from having a: 4U rack mount case that I booted FreeNAS off an Adaptec 39160 SCSI card, … Continue reading
