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VMDirectPath is just hardware passthrough for the controller. It's so the underlying OS has direct access to the hardware which is what ZFS wants.

I'm about to setup a new ZFS system and just wondering what the preferred OS currently is. I've been running ZFS on OpenIndiana oi_151a7 in ESXI for many years. Running Napp-It free0.9b3 nightly Aug.01.2013 (thanks Gea). This is a system I'm running for my own personal home use so I rarely...

I don't know about every single part but I can tell you that I'm running a lots of the same parts. I'm using 1880i attached to an HP SAS expander *AND* 2 chenbro expanders. All on an Xeon/Supermicro board without a single issue. My server's been running 24/7, with almost no downtime (only...

I thought that was for deleting snapshots or clones. Not for individual files. I was interpreting that as filesystems and not files. But I'm far from someone who I would trust to be correct on these things. :D

Ah, so i see. I'm using version 28. The only features I see new (with -v) are: FEAT DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------- async_destroy (read-only compatible) Destroy filesystems asynchronously. empty_bpobj...

Thanks, I ended up rebooting and then exporting and importing the pools. Everything seems to be working fine now. Waiting for it to finish resilvering then I'll do a scrub just to be safe. I did notice that I was able to export via Napp-it without issues but tring to import it gave me an...

No and no. I've never exported or imported anything before so I'm unfamiliar with the process. I thought that was only done when moving the drives to a new system. I have not rebooted in awhile. At least over a month and that's only because I wanted to do some work on the main esxi boot...

I'm running a pretty beefy zfs server for quite awhile now. Probably 3-4 years. And never really any problems. I had drives go bad before, I mean it happens especially when I'm running 72 drives (at almost 200TB) for all this time. When I built my server and the chassis I always order an...

It's not *all* Blu-Ray rips. They are ummm ...linux isos. =) The truth is, less than 25% of that are what you think they are.

Hitachis. All my drives are either Hitachi 3tb or Samsungs (pre-bought out) 2tb in my fileservers. I got lucky and was able to buy almost 40 of those 3TB drives a few days after the flooding (when they were on sale for $110-ish). I'm sitting on almost 200TB of home server storage now. :D

If that's all you have in your fstab, then you aren't mounting the shares. You should have at least one more line pointing to your fileserver. Something like this: //server/share /media/share smbfs auto,credentials=/root/.credentials,uuid=1000,umask=000,user 0 0 //server/share...

This sounds like what I'm doing. I'm on ESXI with OI/zfs in a VM. I have another VM on the same box running ubuntu with sab/sb/cp/hp on it. I absolutely would not combine my fileserver (zfs) with my 'services' in the same vm. It adds complications when upgrading your software packages that...

Why would you need 2 raid cards? Are you physically out of ports? I would perfer to get a single good card then 2 older/lower ones. Probably not much of a price difference when you consider that anyways. An areca 16/18xx would be better off then the 12xx or RocketRaid. I would avoid the...

I do. But you still got to observe the UPS max. Just because you can plug a dozen items in it doesn't mean you should. I have one UPS attached to a number of my 'lower powered' devices. My modem, router/firewall, switch, kvm, monitor and other misc devices while my bigger ups take up each...

I just tried again. I actually swapped out my entire expander and the same issue. I even swapped out my raid card. Just for completion, I skipped my SAS Expander completely and plugged the troublesome planes directly to my areca card. When it's directly plugged into the card, none of the...

Well, on my latest Norco-4224 case, 2 of the 6 backplanes are currently not working. This is my 3rd case and this is the first time I have had any issues with my case. Since I've had only good experience with my previous Norco purchases, I'm hoping this is just an isolated incident. I...

I want to point the same results. I've gotten flacky results from chaining 2 expanders as well. I've tried to chain pairs of HP expanders without luck. Also tried to chain 2 new chenbro ones without much success either. This currently leaves me in a bind as I have 3 norco chassis but only 2...

It's a physical issue. I only have physical room for one system drive. All the physical bays are already allocated to my NAS, which was my original purpose to have this box. A home file server. I haven't used ghosting software for a while. Do they clone fine going from smaller to larger...

Is it possible to 'clone/ghost' an entire esxi drive? I have a fully working ESXI box with multiple VMs on it at home. The hardware is almost entirely esxi server grade/HCL approved. What happened is I originally just wanted a small 'boot' system drive for esxi and the very limited VMs I was...

http://db.tt/WDHdsd9 Still need some more referrals before hitting the limit. Extra 250megs for signing up.

I'll take another look when I get home tonite. This is what I have available: ARC-1680i and ARC-1880i 2 Chenbro CK23601 SAS expanders 2 HP SAS Expanders 3 Norco 24-Bay chassis 48 2TB Samsung Drives 24 3TB Hitachi Drives. I've tried different combinations of those products to get each of my 3...

I wish I was so lucky. I have nearly the same setup and I cannot get this to work correctly. I've tried using both 1680i and 1880i cards and I cannot get the Areca card to work through either the HP SAS nor Chenbro expanders when attached to my Hitachi 3TB. They (the cards, expanders and...

SAS Controllers are compatible with SATA drives. SAS Drives are not compatible with SATA controllers. Pretty sure your cable will not work the way you are expecting it to.

Just wondering if this 'photo & video' sync promo is still good for the free space? I was a bit late this week and didn't notice this nice little bump. So before I pull the beta down, wondering if DB still provides the bonus.

Updated. http://db.tt/WDHdsd9

Holy cow. What happened? Glad I picked this up last month. That's a pretty steep jump.

Here's a moment. First time launching doom in my local PC lab with MULTI PC & MONITORS! A computer with multiple monitors was unheard of then. Was the first time I've had a "wide-screen" game. It was just so awesome to see your left and right side. Having groups of people gathering behind...

In theory, it should work fine. Has anyone tried to daisy chained chenbro's expanders yet? Because of issues with chaining the HP expanders, I'll be moving away from them for the time being. The Chenbro has 2 external SFF-8088 connectors. The docs says "In" and "Out" for them. They seem to...

Yeah, update drivers before the card. Makes complete sense but I know some people end up overlooking it. See it with nvidia unified drivers on video cards when people upgrade.

Re: Daisy Chaining. That's unfortunate. I really rather chain the 2 HP for my setup. I'm going to have to spend some time and try different combinations of internal/external ports to see if I can get better luck. My current setup has a 1680i. I have a spare 1880i as well. Maybe I should...

From earlier posts, people have gotten multiple expanders working by daisy chain. I tried and something isn't right. I need 2 of the HP SAS daisy chained. From my areca 16xx card, one of the internal ports is connected to the last HP port (Port 9). From that card, the external connector is...

Dropbox been filling faster then I expected. I can use some more referrals now. http://db.tt/WDHdsd9 28 to max.

Dropbox been filling faster then I expected. I can use some more referrals now. http://db.tt/WDHdsd9 28 to max. See http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1658215

I can see it taking days to repair if a drive fails. 24 is above what I would use for a raid6. I usually suggest no more then 10-12 max on with a 6.

Well, it's that time for me to start looking for another expander. Does any distributor actually have any available? Or does every place just ship it [direct] from the manufacturer? Every one looks like a month wait time. Another question, how does this play with the HP SAS? If they are...

It does look like a simple task to remove from the kit. Is it? Does it have the bracket for the card when it is removed?

I have had no problems with samsung drives. I'm using probably about 64 of the 2TB versions in my home server. (Along with 16 or 24 of the 1.5TB ones) Mixed of F3 and F4s models. There was never an issue with any of them. I ran a thorough test using Samsung's ESTool on each and every single...

We just let our users name them whatever they want. :D Servers and VMs are named by me. It's named after whatever I happened to be watching/reruns, a random wiki I'm reading or just whatever stupid thing a co-workers done or said the day new hardware is delievered. :D:D Haha... I'm joking...

Haha... I said business. If you think your consumers outnumber business purchases. :rolleyes:

I liked the FMV in the intro and maybe the ending but not during the cut scenes. I like seeing your character (especially if they wearing/using) equipment during the cut scenes that you have on during the normal gameplay. It feels more 'natural' or real(er). Intro CG is fine, like blizzard's...