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Storage Thoughts
So, I’m contemplating making some additions to my TrueNAS box (which was previously discussed here) either in the form of additional RAM or drives. The current pool configuration is the 5 drive RAID-Z2 of the IronWolf drives and the WD Reds have been rearranged into a 3 vdev mirror, with one drive just floating empty. […]
Tuesday Night Project
This was my project on Tuesday night this week. I’ll possibly make another post with a photo or three once I’ve started installing equipment.
Zpools
So my FreeNAS/TrueNAS box has gone through a couple iterations now due to trying to resolve issues that came up with the original build from 2015 or so. Iteration 1.5 “Vault” involved an old Dell PowerEdge 2950 III that I hadn’t taken to be recycled yet, which I outfitted with six 2 TB drives (max […]
CentOS 8
So awhile ago I started looking at options to update my MariaDB servers & mail server to newer versions than the OS-provided versions they were currently running. Initially I was looking at using IUS like I did for PHP, but CentOS 8 hit RTM including updated versions of all of the above so when an […]
NAS Build 2.0?
So I built a new temporary NAS out of an old PowerEdge 2950 G3 I had in my recycle pile, a HBA with external ports, and a 15 bay external drive enclosure. This seems to have resolved the issue I was having with FreeNAS dropping the WD Red pool, even if I haven’t pinpointed the […]
Gluster Troubleshooting
So the backend storage for the stuff I’m serving to the internet resides on a pair*of CentOS 7 hosts running GlusterFS 6.7 with a single mirrored brick. Recently I’ve started getting disk space warnings on one node but not the other and the cause appears to be the log file for the brick just exploding […]
Lab Updates
So late last year I picked up a refurbished Dell PowerEdge R610 to use as a VM host to replace the 2950 Gen3. I still need to get more memory for it as I only have it outfitted with 64 GB currently. I still want to get 1-2 more R610s so I can get rid […]
Projects II
So I discovered the CPU I was going to use in building a Hyper-V or VMWare test box has only a single core. I think I’ll end up using it for a pfSense or OPNsense box instead and do something else for the hypervisor test box, maybe use the hardware from my current NAS after […]
2020? Projects
(If you’re wondering about the title it’s that I doubt I’ll have the budget for any of this in the coming year so maybe next year..maybe.) I think going forward I’m going to go back to building my PCs instead of buying machines, except obviously for if I replace my going on 10 year old […]
Gutenberg
This is a test post with the new ‘Gutenberg’ editor in WordPress. The last time I tried to use it was about a month ago and couldn’t even attach the image to the post I was trying to make, I ended up starting again with the regular editor just to be able to complete the […]
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