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STHbench 2014 - Finalization (almost there)
First off, thank you to @Chuckleb and @Patriot for all of their work on the new STHbench for 2014 which is shaping up to be a HUGE improvement. My sense is that we are getting very close to finalizing...
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Vmware physical interfaces bridging
Hi all, I have a question for the vmware savvy people here I have a HP DL585 G2 with installed PCI-x card with 2x10G sfp+ interfaces . My goal is to have a switch - Cisco 3750G-16TD-S connected to one...
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Illumos-based OS for DL380 G5?
Hey all- Building an iSCSI storage system to feed some ESXi hosts out of an older (nehalem-based) DL380. I've got the P400i controller, 32GB of RAM and 2x4core somethingorother CPUs (clock speed doesnt...
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Supermicro X10 incompatible with Adaptec 7805Q
Glad to see the site up again While waiting the site to come up I posted here, not much help, hope somebody here can be of more help: Supermicro X10SLM+-F and Adaptec 7805Q fail - [H]ard|Forum The...
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Openindiana infiniband - doesn't detect link
So here I am showing my ignorance regarding infiniband, again. I've tried to set up infiniband under both Solaris 11.1 and Openindiana 151a8 on a C6100 node with a Connectx-2 VPI cards running the...
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Xeon CPU in HP Microserver
Looks like HP are going to do what many folks already tested and using// HP MICROSERVER E3-1220Lv24GB(1/2) N SATA(0/4) B120i DVDRW 1YR PARTS ( G0M45A )
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$959 10gb switches...if you can handle the damage??
hmmm FCOE? Top of Rack Switches 24 x 10g or 1g SFP+ ports Full specs here IBM Redbooks | IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8124E Say they are working, but they are damaged a bit (dropped?) Might be ok...
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My Lian Li A06 C6100 Build
Quick 2 photos from my wip c6100 workstation build. I'll edit in more info when I'm done today, Enjoy. Edit, info etc: Quick fun little project for the holidays Had free chassis, mobo and cpu, so why...
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STHbench incompatible with Rackspace Ubuntu
I like what ya'll are doing. I tried this on Rackspace Ubuntu 14.04 both PVHVM and standard. Did not work. Here is what I did. I'm thinking you'll need to rename the script file and path though. Code:...
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U-NAS NSC-800, E3-1230v3, E3C224D4I, 2xSSD
This is basically a continuation of this thread, "Haswell vs Avoton for Mini-ITX NAS?". My goal was overall physical downsizing, and this is one piece in a bigger project. I took a lot of inspiration...
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Supermicro motheboards BMC-IPMI security issue - critical
CARISIRT: Yet Another BMC Vulnerability (And some added extras) | CARI.net Blog
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50+TB NAS Build, vSphere Cluster and Network Overhaul
Posted this over at Avforums, figured I would post my build log here, some of the text Iv written below has probably changed over the last few days. Not quite just a storage build but seems like the...
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Does anyone know what 5TB drive is in here?
I was looking for 4TB wd reds when I saw 5TB drives at shockingly low prices: The $189 Seagate option - Amazon.com: Seagate Expansion USB 3.0 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive (STBV5000100): Computers...
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Problem with controller m5110e e cachecade ibm 3650 m4
hello, I have a problem with a server ibm 3650 m4 with an installed disk controller mod. m5110e with expander and enabled CacheCade. The problem is the same as discussed in this previous post....
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M5110e cachecade with SanDisk Drives
Hi, I have an IBM X3650 M4 which has the embedded M5110e card. I have all the advanced feature keys installed. I am trying to use some consumer grade 240Gb Sandisk SDSSDX-240G drives with cachecade....
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ZFS mass storage server (no virtualization) recommendations
Hi all! I'm glad the forum is finally back! I am searching for ZFS gurus' advices regarding a server that will be used to store terabytes of data in a long-term fashion. This machine will be connected...
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Ubuntu MAAS
Anyone work with this one? Took me half a day to understand what it does. It basically is a way to manage large farms of physical machines. You more, or less, provide it with the mac address of a...
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Silverstone DS380: ITX 8x SAS/Sata Hotswap
SilverStone Technology Co., Ltd.- DS380 This would be an amazing SFF ZFS build. Looking at the pictures, if you went with a FlexATX or DC/Pico PSU you might have room for an extended ITX board such as...
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WD Red 4TB $140
WD Red 4TB 3 5" SATA 64MB Hard Drive WD40EFRX 132018028957 | eBay I just ordered up!
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Forum for linux virtualization?
We already got forums for commercial virtualization solutions such as VMware/Virtualbox/Citrix and Windows Server/Hyper-V. There should be 3rd forum for Linux kernel enabled virtualization such as...
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