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Can't shut down ESXi 5.5 host fully
Issue is... when issuing a shut-down to the ESXi 5.5 host, it will not power off completely. The order of events is: - manually shut down all VMs and verify down - issue shutdown (vsphere client or...
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Guide: How to Build a 8-bay DAS Enclosure SATA/ SAS
I decided to start a little project. Buying an 8-bay DAS enclosure is easy but can be costly. For example, one can buy a Sans Digital TR8X+B for $399. That unit looks really nice but I have heard mixed...
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Green vs Red redux.
So, I see WD have released their new 5TB and 6TB Green drives. I'm still convinced these drives are the same mechanically as the Reds, and a few minutes with WDIDLE3.exe turns off/down the idle timer....
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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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FS: Brocade BR-1020 dual port 10Gbps CNA
Up for sale: BR1020 + 1 M Brocade active twinax/DAC cable, full and low height brackets, latest 3.2.4.0 FW/boot/BIOS code flashed $40 to first interested, Contact me and we can link up payment/shipping...
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Looking for soundoproof cabinets
I am looking a 40 x 40 x 20 cubic inches or something similar like 18U height or so cabinet preferably furniture material i can use to reduce sounds of tower servers...i don't need the racks from rack...
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Aborted Command!
I seem to be getting a lot of these: /pci@0,0/pci15ad,7a015/pci1000,3020@0 (mpt_sas0) errors in dmesg. How do i relate this to a HDD and or my M1015 HBA's? Chur.
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Replacing drive with different sector alignment
Hi all, I have a 4 vdevs, each with 6x2TB HDD's in a Z2 config. I initially started with 2 vedv, then added the other over time. Unbeknownst to me when i added the last vdev it created it with ashift...
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Looking for Help: I354 SMB3 Multichannel Performance Tweaks
Ladies and Gentleman, I would kindly request your assistance in tweaking the performance between my storage server and the backup server. Until now I am having speeds between 220 MB/s (with 4x1GbE)...
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How can I "recognize" physical drives?
If one of drives in raid-array fails, how can I say which one is it? I mean, physically, so that I replace really the failed one. I have raid-controller with 2x SFF-8087 ports (vertical). In each of...
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LSI MegaCLi (preboot CLi),StoreCLi, MegaSCU, MegaREC, SAS2flash and MegaOEM...
Utilites Download DOS Put on Bootable DOS USB or CD Windows Run 'Command' prompt in Adminstrator mode and then run the utilities MegaCLI SAS RAID Management Tool Ver 8.07.07 Dec 19, 2012 (c)Copyright...
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ESXi 5.5 purple SOD - SSD RDM on C602 chipset. Any cure ?.
Hi, I have just rationalised my landscape from a DL380G6 Solaris SAN & C6100 node ESXi server to an E3-1225v2 12GB ram mITX AIO based on the Silverstone DS380 and Intel S1200KP board. I have got...
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LSI Cachecade and SSD failures
Has anyone with Cachecade Pro 2.0 setup have experienced SSD failures ? I am curious as to what will happend if SSD in cachecade config failed. I want to keep my current setting (2) 240gb in raid 0 for...
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HTTPS incoming as the new STH standard
I just wanted to drop a quick note and let folks know that SSL encryption testing is happening. That means that practically HTTPS will become the new standard for both the forums and the main site in...
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Anyone used or heard of this motherboard?
Its the Supermicro H8DME-EX-LS006. I cant seem to find any information on it anywhere on the internet other than on the ebay sellers auction pages. Here is the auction page. New Supermicro H8DME EX...
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FS: Z9PA-D8 Motherboard w/ ASMB6-iKVM, 16GB x2 ECC PC3-14900 RAM, and E5-2630 v2
Asus Z9PA-D8 Motherboard w/ iKVM $220 Shipped 16GB x2 ECC RDIMM Elpida $310 Shipped Intel E5-2630 V2 without cooler $520 Shipped
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Poweredge H700 who has one
I am currently running a Perc 6i however I am interested in moving over to a H700 so with that said. Who here is running a H700 in a white box also do you have SSD's connected and are you connect at 6G...
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Seagate Pulsar.2 SAS SSD Thread
Starting a thread to start discussing the Seagate Pulsar.2 SAS SSD. These are MLC NAND SSDs with 370MB/s (read) /200MB/s (write) sequential transfers. Probably the most noteworthy feature is that it...
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Hacking C1100
Thought about posting in the DIY Server builds but it just didn't feel right... Originally I bought a C1100 with dual L5639's and 72GB of RAM to colo and use it for some development testing, etc......
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LSI 9270-8i slow init is slooooooow
I've got an LSI 9270-8i. I've just added two 4TB WD Se (WD4000F9YZ) drives in RAID 1 and started a slow init using MSM. It's been running for almost 2 hours and it is only 2% done and estimating...
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