Part of my new build has me running 5x Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD’s as a RAIDZ array (stripes with one drive worth of redundancy), which I’ll be using as a pool for iSCSI targets off which will hang multiple VM’s as their boot drives. Overkill? Yes, certainly for a home server. Having just installed…
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So I’m looking at hardware prices again, and my wallet is burning holes in my pants (or maybe I just don’t like shopping, and my pants are old and full of holes? sshhh, don’t tell anyone!). The recent release of AMD’s Threadripper (best. cpu. name. ever.), has me lusting after new hardware, but of course,…
So I’m back, and this time to blog about my updates to my home network. Looking through my history here, its been 2.5 years since I set up my current incarnation of my home server, which is a neat little mATX case and motherboard, with an aging Lynnfield X3450 Xeon cpu, a supermicro motherboard, and…
In my previous blog post about choosing the right dom0, I came to the conclusion that in the face of an upcoming RHEL7 which is based on Fedora 19/20, it made sense to set up my dom0 for using Fedora 20. Given the similarity between Fedora 20 and RHEL7, it should be the same process…
This post is short and to the point – annoyingly, the LSI drivers for FreeBSD seem to have issues using MSIX interrupts, which causes the adapter to either not work at all, or to stop working. The fix is simple, once you know how to do it 🙂 Lets start by assuming you’ve got your…
Ok, so no posts for a couple of weeks. Why? Well I’ve been banging my head against various ZFS appliances, trying to make them do what I want 🙂 What I want is to migrate my old HP Microserver over to new hardware, and in the process, change out a bunch of the network services…
So I’ve just grabbed a Dell H310 off of fleabay as part of my new server build. First challenge is to figure out how to flash it with an IT firmware, so that I can use it as a controller card for a virtualised file server. The Perc H310 is a sas2008 based card, and…