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ESXi and *non*-ZFS fileserver reccos?
I'm leaning heavily against ZFS largely because I don't want to be "stuck" with needing to use all the same sized disks plus my workloads (home fileserver for storing media and desktop/laptop backups)...
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Monitoring drives for errors/failures
Hello - I have my system in full swing and need to put something in place to monitor the health of my disk drives. I have some SSD's and 4TB SATA drives behind a Dell Perc H310 HBA presented to ESXi as...
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Max Watts / Amps across Molex? (18 gauge wire)
Hi, I have a supermicro 4u 846 chassis, with the 2x PWS-920P-1R hotswap power supplies (rated at 920w , 75amps at 12vdc each). however my question is more of a general one. the PDB on this chassis puts...
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What do you want to see first?
I just realized we have a fairly large backlog of SSDs that have been tested and results not published yet: Samsung SV843 960GB XP941 512GB SM843T 480GB 845DC Evo 850 Evo (for comparison purposes)...
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$30.29 OBO - HP 10GB Mellanox ConnectX-2 10GBe SFP+
New 671798 001 HP 10GB Mellanox Connectx 2 PCIe 10GbE Ethernet NIC | eBay I have two of these. Work really well in my Linux boxen. I've used HP DAC's, Cisco DAC's, and Fiberstore SFP's (flashed for...
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What about VirtualBox?
I notice VirtualBox in the header for this sub-forum, and yet looking through the postings it has barely even been mentioned. Is VirtualBox fatally flawed? Too slow perhaps? Or are ESXi and Proxmox...
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VMware Networking for Home Lab
Looking for some advice on how to configure my NICs & virtual networks for my vmware lab. I have the following setup 2x ESX5.5 Hosts with 2 NICs each 1x Synology 1812+ hosting an iSCSI datastore 1x...
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FS: Swiftech H20-320 Elite Series CPU Water Liquid Cooling Kit
Auction Style - Sold to the highest bidder Swiftech H20 320 Elite Series CPU Water Liquid Cooling Kit Universal Mount | eBay
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Next NAS - Time to shed spinning disks?
At the gym this morning I had a perhaps crazy thought: What if my next NAS no longer included a spinning disk? On my lab NAS, STH uses about 1.5-2TB for raw photo storage, 0.5TB or so for images I keep...
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C226 based board
HI Guys Just wanting some ideas thrown into the pot.. I am just sourcing all the ingredients for a server / workstation for a small business / home based business to replace an ageing server /...
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Raspberry Pi 2 Model B released
The site is being hammered so it is hard to read the press release or order at the moment. Here is a link to the press release. New specs Quad core Broadcom BCM2836 ARMv7 Quad Core Processor at 900MHz...
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SuperMicro 113-6 1026T-URF
I have 4 of these supermicro servers. I was going to use 3 of them for esxi hosts and use the 4th for a SAN target for the other three. What type of drives and OS would be suggested to use in this type...
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Which ESXi "All-in-One" NAS is easiest to install/learn/use?
So far I've only just installed ESXi, so I am absolutely at the very beginning of the learning curve. However, I'd like to have a ZFS NAS that's accessible from various VM's, and putting them all...
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cheapest motherboard + CPU with ECC for running freenas for doing backups?
I hope to build an all-in-one (https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...one-nas-is-easiest-to-install-learn-use.4681/) for the main file server, and I'd like a separate system to back it up. Hopefully the...
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VMware VMUG Advantage EVALExperience - Experience
My subscription is active. I had to register on a new site by Kivuto. After registering, I had access to the following page. This page had each of the software bits available for download. View...
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Very noob LSI / MegaRaid question
hi, Ive just recently been getting into LSI / MegaRaid HW raid cards and thus MegaRaid Storage Manager. Prior ive always used adaptec HW raid cards. Maybe im missing something obvious, but is it not...
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E5-2600 v1,v2,v3 article
Patrick, Thank You for the article and the power graphs, have been looking for some details like this for a while, to make a decision. The V2 information was invaluable, real power savings over v1, and...
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FreeNAS: Hardware vs. Hardware
I find myself in possession of two different platforms on which I could host FreeNAS. I cannot use both since there is only room for one. I am turning to the community for opinions. Usage Model: iSCSI...
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Lenovo ThinkServer RD440 new in the box - $600 obo free ship to anywhere in...
Hi all, I got this server as a gift for helping someone on a tech project. It's brand new in the box and factory sealed. It's a Lenovo RD440 with 1 E5-2420 V2 6 core processor (dual socket capable),...
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Supermicro 4u 24 bay chassis with SAS2 expander
Hi, This was posted in the supermicro 3u thread but I wanted to make my own now that I have received the chassis and I can confirm that everything was as advertised. I reached out to the seller of this...
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