Recent content by Balthazar B

For $135, that's a very good value.

Just wanted everyone to know this worked like a charm. Wish it had been in the OI Wiki. :( Now a question. As mentioned earlier I've got 5 2TB SATA3 disks which I want to use as a Raid-z1 volume, and a 120GB SATA3 SSD, which I envisioned using for the boot drive. Should I just format the whole...

No optical drive available, but I'll try this when I get home : http://bradrobinson.blogs.exetel.com.au/index.php?/archives/3-Solaris-11-Express-x86-64-bit-installer-for-2TB-root-disk.html Will let you know how it goes.

32-bit Great minds think alike, although I was going to try Ubuntu first. But Solaris 11 installs properly. All disks are recognized (of course, since Sol11 is 64-bit only). Same USB stick and installation method as with OI. Problem with the Illumos kernel, do you think? Or something else?

No, the installer will install either depending on how much memory it detects. But despite the 8GB I have, it's only installing x86 (32 bit).

Approaching my wit's end and haven't found the answer here or anywhere else I've googled. First of all, pertinent hardware: Intel S1200kp motherboard, latest firmware i3-2120T processor 8 GB Kingston unbuffered ECC RAM LSI SAS9212-4i4e HBA, latest IT firmware 1 Mushkin 120GB SSD 5 Seagate...

Hi, pitne. Just to clarify, do you mean you can run ESXi on a USB, but if you run OI by itself on a dedicated NAS (i.e., no virtualization), it should be run from a hard disk? Is it a no-no to run it from an SSD?

This thread suggests there's a good chance the i3-2120t may support ECC (based on experiences with other i3s with the proper Intel chipsets), and I'll know for certain when I try it out myself in a few days. Of course I'll update the thread with my findings. I wanted a low-TDP CPU and you can't...

Going with an Intel S1200KP and (for the time being) an i3-2120T, and some ECC RAM. All these make sense for a NAS of the scale I'm thinking of. I want dual Intel NICs and ECC in a mini-ITX form factor. Would be nice if the mainboard had VT-D but currently nothing out there is available in that...

Nice summary! Just an update on this project. I've decided not to build an all-in-one box (supporting both virtualized environment and NAS) but rather to do two purpose-built boxes, with the NAS first. I have most of the pieces but still waiting on a couple of bits. I'll post a bill of...

I haven't seen much discussion about the SATA backplane (and Lian Li's installation guide doesn't seem to have a link). Can you tell me about connections, whether it was necessary to use right-angle (or left-angle) connectors? How about providing power? How difficult was that part of the build...

You can but can't provide direct access to hardware, which can lead to less-than-optimal performance depending on what the VMs need to do.

No VT-d on the S1200KP from all that I see, but I think it'll work fine as a NAS board with a processor that supports ECC. I'm leaning towards a SuperMicro mATX board when I build a second box for an ESXi host, since Intel's is comparatively weak, although it costs a bit less. I think I'll wait...

ESXi 5 I'm going start out trying ZFS on Linux (probably Debian 6) first, try FreeBSD/FreeNAS if that doesn't work, and finally fall back on Nexenta or OI as a last resort. I'd prefer to use BTRFS and may mess with it a bit before I go ZFS, but it doesn't seem quite ready for prime time...

Let's not forget to list the nice mITX server boards when they come out. If they come out.