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Until yesterday: Switched to Telekom Hybrid (Combination of ADSL2+ & LTE) today: There's more possible - up to 100 down & 40 up, but seems like I need some external antennas.

You can manage it under Linux, if you've installed VMware Workstation 10 for Linux. This works very well. The other option (cheaper than buying a VMware Workstation License) is to setup a small Windows VM on the ESXi and use RDP to access it. You can then install the vSphere client in that VM...

My (meanwhile old hardware) ESXi 5.5: - Mobo: SuperMicro X9SCM-F - CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 (v1) - 24GB ECC RAM (2x4 + 2x8GB) - HP p400/512MB RAID Controller with 4x 1TB Hitachi 7200rpm HDs in RAID10 for the Datastore - 80GB Intel SSD for Caching - Dual Port Intel PT NIC for IPFire VM VMs...

A little off-topic (just a bit), but this reminded me so much... Check those 2 videos about this guy building a big harddisk enclosure on it's own :) Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BatakM9iAik Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPjcXkKxkIA

I remember having an Areca 8-Port SAS Controller with 8x WD Green 1TB drives - a very bad combination. It kicked the drives every 2nd day. It was nightmare :) Silhouette is right: Consumer drives and RAID controllers are not a very idea.

I wonder why you want to use a hardware RAID controller for this. A simply HBA would've been cheaper and then use mdadm for RAID or even ZFS on Linux, which works very stable and great meanwhile. However: If you run a fileserver, you should *ALWAYS* use ECC memory (on the board, not only on...

@morgande Is it ECC memory? ZFS should have ECC.

Hi, I thought I should share a way to use the HP p400 RAID controller on a non-HP server/board with ESXi. As it seems, there's no driver for the p400 on ESXi 5.1, also, there are no drivers to install for 5.1 afterwards. I've seen the storage, but on every try to format it, I received a...

I highly recommend reading: http://nex7.blogspot.de/2013/03/readme1st.html :)

For my father in law, I've created a small robocopy script he can just launch by right-clicking and "run as administrator" once he has attached his 2.5" external disk. On my servers, I backup using rsync in a shell script (Linux).

Learned a lot posting and reading this thread. :)

I don't see a problem in running a regular desktop with Windows, Mac or Linux and put VMware Workstation/Fusion or VirtualBox on top of it? Just be sure you have enough RAM. At least the VMware products are able to run spanning across multiple screens. I think there's also a nice solution by...

There are some mainboards that have "GPU"-only PCIe x16 slots and can't drive any RAID card or even network cards. But I must say that I also think it's DOA as I've never had such on any board from Asus, Gigabyte, Asrock or SuperMicro.

RAID1 is ~the speed of a single disk, as ALL the data is written on both HDs at the same time. RAID1 is "mirror". RAID0 is much faster, as the data is striped above the (for example) 2 HDs, means 50% are written to one disk while the other 50% are written to the other one. RAID0 is "striped".

Well, the original fan was damaged and super loud. Even the new fan is ~27dB and not really quiet - but as I will put the switch into the rack which is in the last room in the basement, it's fine ;) As long as it does it's work.

Got this switch a few days ago from a friend :) I just had to replace the fan - will put it into my rack at the upcoming weekend.

My fault :) I apologize.

Photos or it didn't happened :) (Threads rule)

I agree that the HP MicroServer N40l is a great box. I run mine for a couple of months now with 8GB ECC RAM, a 2nd NIC (Intel on PCIe x16 slot) + the iLO/IPMI card for remote control. I've put in 6 drives - 4 on the bays + one in a 5.25" to 3.5" frame and on top of that a small 2.5" HD for the...

I think it would be the easiest to install an IPCop as ChinaMan has recommended on a separate system and use it for filtering and logging. You can easily access the web interface and you should enable the Proxy transparent, so that all users HAVE TO use it. AddOns like Calamaris will generate a...

Wouldn't Tb be Terabits? :eek:

@sawk: While it sounds like a huge performance drop, the switch from x16 to x8 has nearly no effect to the graphic performance as Linus Sebastian (NCIX Tech Tipps) has shown in one of his YouTube videos. As far as I remember it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXALgE7mVM However...

SuperMicro is a save bet, as long as it is not a HP SmartArray controller which gave me lots of headache with a X9SCM-F in the past ;) I've used some Intel SASUC8i's (LSI 1068e/B3) on several boards from Asus and Gigabyte as well as SuperMicro an these x8 cards always worked fine on the PCIe...

That's a very interesting thread, guys! I've just migrated my stuff from a Debian fileserver to a HP Microserver (N40L w/4GB ECC RAM) that runs a DC (need this for training purpose). However - I'm currently running the onboard RAID10 over 4x 1.5TB HDs + a separate HD for my media - which feels...

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Sorry, talking to me? If so, I don't get it. EDIT: Got it ;) Was not me. Thanks! Believe it or not - it's fully working (but the screen is flickering a bit).

It's a cold mounted foil. The back site is gluey and glues easily on flat surfaces like the wooden top plate or the fronts of the 19" cases. Maybe a thermafoil would be better to use, especially for the corners :) By the way: here is a link to the foil...

It's both the same white foil with a light wooden structure. It's from a manufacturer here in Germany, but forgot the name... I guess you can get it from any do-it-yourself shop :)

Hey guys, this is my little current "Project: White Penguin". This is all is about 2 current machines sitting in a rack next to my in the home office. Goal is to learn about squid for a job that I will start soon (don't want to start unprepared, even if I get training on the job for sure)...

I'm also looking for a way to grab the data from the power meter - here im Germany, most of the houses have this slice versions: I'm trying to get some information HOW and IF I can get a power meter with serial/USB support to be able to grab the data directly - but so far I've got no answer...

Here is my network post :) Parts from top left to bottom Alix 1D (miyuki), weather data logger, gateway, local webserver, Debian HP ProCurve 1800-8G Compaq 4 Port KVM Switch (PS/2 + VGA) SuperMicro Miniserver (Cel 1.4GHz, 1.25GB ECC RAM, currently not running) Fileserver (nanako)...

Sorry. Double posted.

If you want to have a power SOCKET, I can highly recommend the NetIO series from Koukaam. You can control every single port via script and web interface. A friend of me has written an Android app: http://netio.stankowic-development.net/

Are the well sorted boxes on top of the cabinet your LTO-2 media?

It depends - if you have 4k Cluster disks, this will slow A BIT the ZFS performance. It's not that bad honestly and a bit overhyped.

Without wanting to hijack this topic... Did! Intel SASUC8i w/ LSI FW :) Also done in the SuperMicro server. X9SCM-F + Xeon E3-1230 + 16GB ECC RAM So true :( I saw so much HDs dying in the last months. Got most between 2008 and 2011 - looks like these are reaching the EOL now.

Hey brutalizer, it's true. The risk is there, that the new system still corrupts my files silently and that is a bad feeling. The reason that I've switched to ZFS initially. I also fully agree with you, that just because I don't see the errors, the may exist (dark matter exist, even if we...

Just my 2 cents... Yes - Linux mdadm works great in an ESXi All-in-one-box. I had that running for nearly a year and it was the so far best experience I had. I just recommend to spend some money on good hardware. I have a SuperMicro X9SCM-F + Xeon 1230 CPU + 16GB ECC RAM + 2x Intel SASUC8i...

Line A (Telekom DSL16000) Line B (Vodafone DSL6000 / static IP / Business Line) The ping is a bit higher as I'm testing from my notebook wireless ;)

You're right! :) Sorry!!