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Several years ago, I built the home NAS in my sig (ASUS E35M1-I | 2x 4GB | 2x 250 GB 2.5" HDD | 4x 2TB 5k3000 | CHENBRO ES34169-BK-120 | OpenIndiana 151a9 | WHS2011 in VirtualBox 5.0.12), and have been happy with it for quite some time. When Microsoft stopped updates for WHS 2011, I took a...

I've got the following problem: I upgraded my primary OS drive (contains the 100MB BOOT partition and the rest is the OS) from an 160 GB Intel X25 SSD to a 256 Samsung 840 Pro and used the Samsung Data Migration v2.0 software. Now when I boot on the Samsung, I notice that the BOOT partition has...

Hi, I just got a Supermicro X9SRH-7F with an E5-1650 (as a replacement for an X8DTL-3 with 2x L5518). The LSI2308 has the IR firmware 'installed'. The old board had a little jumper to put the LSI 1068E into IT mode (for ZFS/all-in-one use), but there is basically no information about the...

Hi, I just shelled a Hitachi HDS5C4040ALE630 (Deskstar 5K4000) from a WB My Book to replace my aging Samsung 2 TB F4 data drive (main rig, see signature). I am booting Windows 7 (64-bit) off an Intel X25-M SSD. The Hitachi HDD is correctly listed in the BIOS as a 4 TB drive, however...

Hi, I am planning to build a workstation that requires a case that takes E-ATX mobo (with 2x 8p ATX power connector) and holds 7 drives now with room to grow. Since I already have a Define R3 case which I like a lot, I have my eyes set on a Define R3 XL. Fractal Design states that is has...

Hi, I've implemented an all-in-one sever following _gea's (popular) guide: OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (Nexenta*, OpenIndiana, Solaris Express However, despite using 5x 600GB VelociRaptor drives in a "RAID10" + spare configuration, the write performance from within the Windows (XP and...

Hi! I have six "thick" VMware images (entire drive size is pre-allocated for performance reasons) that are locally accessible (HW RAID) for the VMware Server 2.0.2 installation on CentOS 5.3. I'd like to move those images to my new system with ESXi 4.1U1 (free) and an NFS storage (Solaris)...

Hi, I was wondering whether anyone knows if the "IBM PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server (made by Intel)" can run with the Intel drivers or not? So, is it just the Intel card sold by IBM or is the card actually slightly different (i.e. different PCI ID). I was planning to use the card in a Solaris...

Hi, I have a CHENBRO ES34169-BK-120 case and I'm looking for a PCIe riser card that fits that case. CHENBRO lists part number 80H09453403A0 as their riser card, but that seems to be unavailable in the US. Unfortunately, they don't have pictures of the unwrapped product, so that I can take...

(this topic bridges the storage, virtualization and network security topics, so I'm not sure if this forum is the most appropriate one) Hi, I have a custom home NAS box running a Solaris host and Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS) in VirtualBox (bridged network). Additionally, the Solaris host...

Does anyone have experience with the LSI MegaRAID SAS 84016E? Is this RAID card "ZFS compatible"? I.e. does it have an IT mode? I did not find IT FW for it, but maybe there is an option in the FW? If not, would JBOD work? Also, does the card have native support in OpenIndiana? If not, would...

OK, here's the deal: I have an AMD E-350 based system with 8 GB RAM and 2x250 GB (mirrored rpool) + 4x 2 TB drives (RAIDZ1) running OpenIndiana 148b. I use that system as a home server for backups and also as a file server (NAS). Since I really like how user friendly WHS2011 is, I'd like to...

I found the following statement at the very bottom of the vSphere download page: "This license key can be deployed on an unlimited number of physical hosts, but is restricted to deployment on less than or equal to 5 Physical Servers." (just recently changed it to 5, but probably have to bump...

I'm planning to add a ~120 GB SSD as read cache/L2ARC device to a zpool. The pool is currently made up 5x 600 GB Raptors (2xmirrors/RAID10 + spare) and is used as a VMware storage shared via NFS. There are currently 7 VMs active, about 3 more by the end of the year. 240 GB SSDs are a bit out of...

My test setup: All-in-one server using ESXi 4.1.0 348481 (free) on Supermicro X8DTL-3, a 60GB SATA drive provides storage for OI_148b. LSI1068E SAS controller is "VT-d passed through" to the Openindiana VM to provide the data storage for the other VMs. The 'external' (building) GigE network...

Hi, I have two Supermicro boards (X8SIL-F and X8SI6-F) where I have IPMI enabled (changed the user/password, extra network cable, etc). With the IPMIview software on Windows (7, 32-bit), I can log onto the system and the KVM redirection works just fine. However, I cannot mount an .iso...

Hi, I inherited an X8DT3 based system with 2x 15k, 36GB SAS drives. Now I want to use the system as an all-in-one server (first starting VM [#1, Solaris clone] provides the storage [1] for all other 6+ Win XP/7 VMs). In order to get some decent performance for all the VMs, I plan on running...

Hi, I inherited a couple of 1U servers with the Supermicro X8DTL-3 motherboard (not the -F version). However for practical reasons, I really like to have IPMI access to those systems. Are there any options to get an add-on card for that (e.g. riser + IPMI card or very low IPMI card)? I've...

New here. First post :D I’m trying to decide between the different options for a small NAS running ZFS (OpenIndiana + napp-it or ZFSguru). It would have a dedicated boot drive and 4x 1.5 TB disks (Samsung F2 in a RAIDZ + hot spare configuration). The NAS will be accessed by about 20...