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    Only 1 drive/disk??

    Laptop - Hybrid Desktops - SSD Server SSD + Physical Array Pure SSD is currently a waste as most of my data is static and doesn't require fast access at the moment I have a 12TB array and to provision this amount of SSD would cost me a nice car!!! I have no concerns with the life of solid...
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    Help with virtual SAN appliance

    I just put the 4 3TB disks into my old microserver (36NL, 1.3ghz, 8GB ram) and built a physical nexentastor box - 80MB/s consistently over iSCSI Why cant I get the same from the appliance virtualized?
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    Help with virtual SAN appliance

    I can create a big ESXI datastore, but how would I get a 7TB disk into my VM? Ill rejig the memory commitments and give that a go... (I have another 8GB memory arriving in a few weeks time which will help) The web interface for nexenta shows that there is 3GB spare at pretty much all time....
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    Help with virtual SAN appliance

    Thanks for the tips... Just swapped to the vmxnet3 cards and the thoughput is upto 50MB/s. Writebackcache on or off makes no difference How do i mount an nfs share on a server2012 machine? I had previously read your howto, but i need almost all the availiabke space exposed to just one vm in...
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    Help me build a small JBOD DAS

    all the power board does is act as a switch to supply power to case fans and drives. This leaves two choices - lots of loose SATA cables or another PSU and a mobo to host an interface card of some description. In the original configuration the powerboard is used to power a dedicated...
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    Help me build a small JBOD DAS

    I dont have any experience, but found these whilst looking for something similar... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130859525641?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 just connect with SAS cable to an external SAS connector on your host HBA
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    Help with virtual SAN appliance

    Hi, I need some help configuring a virtual SAN in my ESXi host... I know its been covered before (to death probably!) and I have used the search and read an unhealthy amount of posts, but I just can get my setup to perform... My original attempts produced dismal speeds so after much reading I...
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    TV above fireplace question.

    have you looked at the TV-Hanga mounts? ive got the 0mm brackets so the back of the telly is flush with the wall, it requires some work with a channeling cutter to fit the brackets and make enough room for the plugs, etc, but the thing wont topple over. in the previous house I screwed a...
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    Disk performance VMware

    does nobody use VMware with local storage?! or have any ideas why my internal disk copies are slower than usb attatched drives!!
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    Supermicro: 6047r-e1r72l 72 drives in 4U

    two thoughts... Pulling two disks to replace one failed is not ideal, but with this density wouldnt you be running enough redundancy to have the ability to pull two disks without upsetting the raid less likely, do the trays come all the way out like a normal hotswap? or do they have some...
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    Storage Spaces not releasing free space

    for the second question, yes the Virtual Disk will just go offline with no warning, the volume will still be mounted so its just a case of using disk management or server manager, bringing the disk back online and freeing some space
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    Cheap "SSD" option? (mPCIe->USB + Thumb drive)

    Instead of dedicating cash on something you hardly use, why not just use a virtual machine? Install virtual box and run your test environment in there? Also, im not sure that your spare mPCIe is wired up for use as storage
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    Disk performance VMware

    Hi, everybody... newbie here with a couple of questions for all you VMware experts... Does anyone use ESXi with non hardware raid, locally attatched disks, if so, what sort of throughput do you get? What would you suggest in way of disk configuration for my setup?? Heres my setup 2x...
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