Recent content by nuclearsnake

That's my understanding as well, and one of the reasons I picked up the SSDs listed in the first post. Performance is currently on the poor-ish side on my new array, but substantially better then what were were getting on the old array, and even that was an improvement over XFS crashing on a...

I've noticed that dedup puts a lot of load on the system during my testing, and you guys are not the firsts to advise staying away from it until it matures. There are plans to get the server to 32+ GB of ram, and when dedup stabilizes, I'd love to use it for our VM level backups...

Yeah, I know about this. Was not my call and let's just say I had other battles to win that week. Aaaannyway, the new zfs array is setup correctly, with the disks in JBOD mode The testing for RaidZ showed the best Write/Rewrite speeds (not accounting for CPU usage) were with dd=0 (dedup)...

So a while back I started a project to migrate way from XFS to ZFS on our backup server [Link here] The machine specs are now SUPERMICRO X8DTN+ 2 x Xeon 2.26Ghz 2 x 80 GB WD 2 x Corsair Corsair_Force_3 120GB 8 x 2 TB Western Digital WD2002FYPS SATA 5400RPM 8 x 2 TB Western Digital...

What file system would you recommend to using for 12 2TB Western digital drives under ubuntu 10.04 for 70% VMware backups, and 30% file level backups?

Howdy! So I inherited our backup server, and been tasked with rebuilding it. From a hardware point of view it consists of SUPERMICRO X8DTN+ 2 x Xeon 2.26Ghz 2 x 80 GB WD 8 x 2 TB Western Digital WD2002FYPS SATA 1 x 3ware 9650SE-16ML 16 Port SATA Raid When I first got the machine...

I do agree that Untangle is not to expensive, but it is more expensive then our current solution (0.00$). I've already tried to make the case for the increase in spending, to which I was told the reason to bring in the anti-spam is that we're going to cancel our contract with our current...

Hi everyone, I'm starting work on a new project - to remove the old linux based iptables firewalls from the office and implement a dual redundant firewall with failover. A side project is to also have some sort of web content protection and SMTP anti-spam/anti-virus in house. I first...

I have an SSG20 at home and love it. I converted from linksys (and DD-WRT/Tomato) -> Cisco -> Smoothwall -> Juniper and I'm sticking with Juniper. The screenOS is used on the SSG line. Junos on the SRX.

Sweet! I'm in!

Yeah, that's the issue I'm having. Is there a seperate application/service for each of the events (Fileshare vs logon) that I can use to build a policy around on the firewall? If they are both ntoskrnl.exe then I'm hosed eh? The DC is the file server... sigh

Yep ;) The issue is that when I block outbound TCP 139 and 445 and UDP 137 and 138, the server returns a message when I try to logon with a new account "The system cannot log uoi on due to the following error: The RPC server is unavailable Please try again or consult your system...

I'm trying to build a firewall policy that will do the following on a Windows 2003 Server From the 2003 Server, allow it to contact the DC to process logons Not allong the same server to browse the network. IE: no outbound connections I'm having issues with the Windows TCP and UDP Ports...

I found that using any form of torrents would hammer my gaming speeds (re dropped packets, ping, etc) I got myself a used Juniper SSG20 (http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/security/ssg-series/ssg20/) and after building a few rules to prioritize my Steam and HTTP/HTTPS/DNS/ICMP...

Hi everyone, I work for a company who are going to be splitting our office into two seperate companies and will need to split the one network as well with a shared DMZ for the equipment that belongs to both companies. The problem we have is with our ISP/consultants. Back story: We...