I’m happy with my OpenSolaris fileserver even before upgrade.. It has been a marked improvement over the earlier Windows 2008 server in performance at least. Ease of maintaining has been pretty much the same. Basically the problems I’ve had are: WD15EARS 1,5TB drives are tad slow. There is noticeable delay when opening say video files [...]
Category Archives: hardware
HDD goes boink, to upgrade fileserver
Posted by illotus on November 11, 2010
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I’ve kinda felt that maybe I went too far with raidz2 when building my fileserver. Now I noticed that one of the 1,5TB Western Digital Green Power WD15EARS -drives had broken down and there is still two to go before losing data. Maybe not so bad decision after all. Because of the broken drive and [...]
Fileserver, part 3, setting up ACL permissions
Posted by illotus on February 14, 2010
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Finally I have nearly everything moved to the new server. I’ve ended up using ACL for handling permissions for the CIFS shares. ACL isn’t too difficult to understand, but there aren’t too many resources on the net on it. Finding Daz’s “OpenSolaris cifs/smb server – configuring ACL’s on shares” article really helped. For example for [...]
Cloning a Running Windows 2008 Server to a Virtual Machine
Posted by illotus on February 9, 2010
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I’m ready to migrate my 1½ year old Windows 2008 installation to a virtual machine and finding out about the options run into Disk2vhd. It’s made by the Sysinternals team at Microsoft and what it does is snapshot of any drive to a VHD, virtual hard disk. The cool thing is that you can clone [...]
Fileserver, part 2 – taping raid card
Posted by illotus on February 6, 2010
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I have my server running now with the following hardware: Asus P7F-X motherboard Intel Xeon x3440 processor 4GB Kingston ECC DDR3 6 Western Digital 1,5TB drives, model nro WD15EARS 2 Samsung F3 500GB drives Dell SAS 5/i sata raid card Nexus Edge case The first problem I ran into was no boot, if the raid [...]
Fileserver, part 1
Posted by illotus on January 24, 2010
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I have this AMD 4850e/4GB non-ECC RAM/2,6TB/WS2008 serving files and other needs around the apartment. No RAID, no formal backups etc. Some of the more important stuff is on couple of disks and in the cloud etc. At first I intented to buy only 2 more hard drives, adding maybe 2-3TB. Then I got this [...]