Recent content by DarkNovaNick

You need to set up the Cyberpower software inside the VMWare vMA (which is running a version of Linux -- it would also be possible to set it up in another Linux VM). I don't think it will run under OpenSolaris. Doing it inside the vMA is pretty easy and that VM takes up little resources. It will...

I have that same UPS with a ESXi / nappit setup. Works fine. How I have it set up: Install VMWare vMA as a VM running under ESXi. To install the CyberPower UPS software: Power off the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) VM Plug the UPS USB cable into the server if haven't already...

I have a similar question in determining how much to allocate to OpenIndiana when it is running as an all-in-one box with ESXi. I have a M1015 card, setup in pass-through mode, so ESXi makes you "reserve" all the memory you are allocating to the OpenIndiana VM. Since there will be other VMs...

Gea, I found a minor bug in the latest napp-it. If you create a folder with a single-quote mark in its name, like: test ' directory And then go to Extensions->acl-settings->ACL on folders and "reset ACL's". I chose folders, files, and recursive. Proceed and napp-it will print errors for...

I'm having difficulty setting up my initial ZFS filesystems with SMB and NFS access, and am wondering if someone could walk me through a simple case. So I created a ZFS folder called "testfs" from within napp-it. If I set the NFS property" to "on" and a SMB share, I can access it from both NFS...

I installed the Hyper 212 Plus and things are running much better now. As a note to anyone else looking to install it on this motherboard, it fits OK (assuming you have enough clearance in your case), but if you try to install it in the standard "east-west" configuration with it blowing out the...

Thanks for the responses. Since so many people think the stock heatsink is not very good, I decided that instead of taking the time to remove & reinstall the stock, for $20 I ordered the Hyper 212+ which looks to have really good reviews, and has a lot better mounting system. It will be a pain...

I recently bought a Xeon E3-1230, running on a Supermicro X9SCM-F motherboard, as seems to be a pretty common setup around here. As my usual practice with a new system, I proceeded to run some stress tests under 100% load to make sure the system does not have a fault that will appear later...

Thanks, have you noticed any slowdown you attribute to running in x4 mode? It looks like PCI Express 2.0 x4 can push 2GB/s so even with 8 drives that would be 250MB/s per drive, so I'm thinking that unless you are running a whole bunch of SSDs that should be totally fine, right?

I'm looking at building a system with a M1015 connected to 4-8 SATA drives and am determining which motherboard to get. I see that the M1015 is physically PCI Express x8, but some motherboards just have slots that are electrically x4 (but physically 8x or 16x). Does anyone have any experience...

I'm looking at doing something similar as you, and I'm wondering, why are you buying those Intel network adapters? Do the ports on that motherboard not work with esxi, or do you just want more ports?

That this could happen is very disconcerting, as the main benefit of RAID is that you can replace a drive if it fails. I realize the whole 512byte/4k thing is mainly drive maker's fault, but there's not much we can do about that other than workaround it. I'm currently evaluating ZFS /...

Gea, I am planning on an all-in-one build, and saw this in your latest documentation discussing different virtualization modes: 6.5 Virtualization within the OS-Kernel (KVM - Kernel based virtual machines, needs real stable systems best with isolation of functions like with zones) Have...

I'm planning a build with ZFS and have seen that the ZFS documentation recommends using the entire hard drives instead of slices/partitions. However, I've been thinking about the case where one manufacturer's hard drive might have a few less sectors on it than another's, which would cause you to...

As I look at things, it seems like the E5-2xxx are going to be very expensive for the equivalent speed of the E3-1230. But there is the E5-1620, which is just single-socket compatible, which looks pretty fast and will probably be available in the next few weeks for somewhere in the $300s. I...