Recent content by MySongRanHills

God damn that's a lot of work. At least you got it working though. Now you know why everyone else boots from USB and stores VMs elsewhere ;) :D

Thanks a ton _Gea, tons of great info. Once I get everything set up, I think I'll test Solaris with napp-it and nas4free. I'll also test re-silver/scrub speeds with 10/11/12 disk vdevs. I'll report what I find for future reference.

Looking at the used space on my VMs I'm currently using 250GBs (provisioned amount about double that) with 10 VMs mixed between various flavors/versions of FreeBSD,Linux, Windows Server, and Android. I plan on adding more, so I'd say my all flash pool should start @ about 500GB and I can add...

No real budget, and I already have the (24) 4Tb drives (18 in use 6 waiting for the upgrade). I will use the existing hardware in my sig for now with plans to build a 3 host esxi cluster in the next 6-12 months. I don't have the ssds I plan to use for the flash pool yet , so for that I'd say...

Thx for the info! So does this mean I can use it indefinitely for "development" , and put napp-it on top for GUI/interface? What is known regarding the nature of Oracle's encryption? I find it hard to trust anything that isn't open source What is the difference between using disk based or ZFS...

I started out running FreeNAS with (2) RAID-z2 vdevs each with (6) 3TBs drives. I have since then added a 3rd (6)disk vdev with 4TB drives and removed/replaced/resilvered the remaining 3TB drives. I'm going to setup a temp freenas box with the old 3TB drives to dump all my data to while I...

I am torn on this matter. On the one hand, most DDOS attacks I've seen/heard/read about seem to be pointless trolls causing problems for others for no real reason. On the other hand I believe DDOS could / can be used as a form of protest. If protesters form a line and deny shoppers access to a...

That sucks. When you are ready to update to latest ESXi maybe install to USB key (makes it easy to have a clone up on hand) and keep VMs separate in future. Also here are some posts about ESXi config backup/restore so you don't need to re-do all your passthroughs...

It is. As I said, ethically questionable. It is not however, illegal as best I can tell. http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/07/01/17/the-biggest-crime-youve-never-heard-of----return-fraud----and-how-the-criminals-do-it.htm "A practice known as "wardrobing," though not illegal, per say, is also...

So you order on-line and only get 1-2 drives per store....

He did. I read it too fast and missed that bit. Also this idea sounds good.

I didn't realize that. I boot ESXi from USB so never had to worry about it.

I suppose that is true, I guess I (naively) thought google was above some of that.

Wow, great explanation. I learned something today, thanks for the info.

I can't speak to what the best practices etc. are, but if it was me, I'd hook up new drive, let ESXi format it and then move VMs over with both connected. I have done things along this line before.