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Guys I would like to build a storage server dedicated to my home ESXI/Hyperv lab. I am currently using a old cor2duo with an IBM M1015 controller with 4 500 gig Seagate Constellation ES drives passed throughusing Windows storage spaces. I am using iscsi as the storage protocol. I am unhappy with...

Guys I put together a basic Hyper-V lab on Windows Server 2012 R2 in order to learn Hyper-V. The problem I'm running into is network cards. For my ESX lab I use the Intel Pro 1000 PT which works great. I installed a Pro 1000 PT in my Hyper-v systems I am able to use native teaming with no...

I have a Windows 2012 NLB cluster the cluster is backing two nodes. I also have it configure for signal affinity due to the requirements for the web application. Now I would like to know how do you guys monitor your NLB clusters? I am mainly interested in making sure the traffic is divided up as...

I would like to bring up the topic of Hyper V networking and using nic teaming along with vlans via Windows Server 2012 R2. I come from a Vmware shop one of our sister companies is going Hyper V so I decided to read up on it. From what I've read you have to configure vlan tags on each...

I need to purchase a poe switch for my home lab. So I would like to ask what are you guys using? This switch will be for a few phones and some AP's.

I would like to discuss securing PBX servers I'm mainly speaking from the network side of things. For example, do you guys simply forward sip back to your pbx or do you use some sort of proxy? I would assume that you all create firewall rules that only allow specific ip addresses to connect...

I would like to consolidate two file servers into one system. As of right now I have one system that runs a perc6i with a raid 10 configuration I use that for all of my Vmware ESXI lab stuff. My second system also has a Perc6i running a raid 5 with 7 2TB WD Reds. I want to put this all together...

Guys I want to learn more about voip in general as of right now I just use an Obi 110. However I would like to learn more about actually setting up a PBX and adding phones to that PBX learn how to configure sip trunks so those phones can talk outside of my network etc. So what would you guys...

Does anyone here have a method for adding hard drives to a Windows software raid 5 array? I would like to add an additional 2TB drive to my array but from what I'm seeing this is not really possible with Windows. I want to do this without having to delete than recreate the entire array btw I am...

Guys I have always used hardware raid controllers with a BBU. As of late I've started playing around with software raid my main file server uses software raid 5 on Windows Server 2012. Last night I had a power outage and now my array is doing a resync. So I must ask when dealing with software...

Looks like they have release the Edge routers. I would like to know who here has one and what are your thoughts on the device? http://www.amazon.com/EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-512MB-Ethernet-Router/dp/B00CPRVF5K/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

As of right now I'm using a Windows Server 2012 system with software raid 5 12TB's to serve media content to our TV's. I would like to ask who has experience with software raid in Windows? I would like to know what you are getting in regards to reads and writes. I am pulling about 113MB on reads...

I am having problems getting Samba to authenticate AD users to Samba shares. Since I need to get our file server back online I think I will just run Samba as a standalone server. The problem with that is I have a AD domain so I have some concerns. First off can Samba serve files to users that...

Guys I posted here a few days ago about moving my file server over to Linux. I was looking at EXT4 and XFS I think I'm going to go with EXT4 this will be about 30TB of data. I have heard a lot of Linux guys talk about the importance of aligning disk. So can you guys tell me your thoughts on the...

Guys I have been putting this off for a while I need to go ahead and migrate away from my Perc 5i. Also I started another thread on how my Perc is having a caching problem. So with that said I will start out with my hardware I am going to be using 8 WD red 2TB drives with an IBM M1015 controller...

Has anyone here tested disk pools on server 2012. I configured a 2012 vm on ESXI with 4 gigs of ram. I also passed through an IBM M1015 controller connected to 3 WD red 2tb drives. I than created a storage pool after that I created 3 vhd's a raid 0,1 and 5. After that I transferred data over to...

Guys one of our home file servers is running a Dell Perc 5i we have two raid five arrays. This server is used to store mainly media the first raid 5 is made up of 5 Samsung 2TB drives the second raid 5 is made up of 3 WD 2TB Red drives.We run windows server 2012 as the operating system with...

Guys I am playing around with ESXI and jumbo frames in my home lab this is mainly for learning purposes. I am running an HP 1800-8G switch which supports up to a 9216 packet size the nics I'm using both on the storage server and ESXI are Intel Pro 1000 PT they support 4088 and 9014 packet sizes...

Guys what all backup products do you use to backup your file servers at home? I need to get more serious about backing up our data I use server 2012 on most of my boxes now however the problem with the native server 2012 backup is it's dog slow. I'm actually thinking about using the old version...

Guys I would like to ask is there a recommended strip size for raid 5 array that will host virtual machines? I know raid 5 is not the best for virtual machines but this is a test lab mainly for server 2012 configurations.

I have a raid configuration in one of my file servers consisiting of a perc 5i with 256 megs of cache the arrary is made up of 5 Samsung 2TB drives 5400RPM and 32 megs of cache and these drives have 3 platters. I just got 3 Western digital red series drives they are 2TB 5400RPM but they have 64...

Guys I'm curious in knowing who all here virtualizes there storage systems vs running bare metal I am speaking of everything Freenas, Linux, Windows, and Open Indiana? Also if you are running virtual with let's say ESXI is this being done by passing the drives through or is it being done with...

Guys I would like to talk about sas expanders as of right now I have an IBM M1015 the controller can support up to 32 drives. However, can you connect more drives without having to get into a sas expander I ask because the board only has one pci express slot which I already have a raid...

Guys I have some concerns about putting together a file server. First off I will be converting one of our existing systems to perform this task the box has 8 gigs of ram the cpu is a core 2 duo 1.86 and the raid controler is an IBM M1015. I will be using either Centos or Freenas the requirements...

Guys I'm having some serious sound problem with some 2950 Cisco switches that I have in my CCNA lab these switches sound like a jet I've gone in and made sure the fans are clean and I even replaced one they still are too loud. So I have a few options I can run them without a fan which I really...

Guys I use one of my spare bedrooms as an office/lab recently I added a 42u two post network rack. I have two shelves attached the bottom shelf holds my network printer and the other holds my voip adapter and a few other small 8 port Trendnet switches. I have about 7 u's of switches and routers...

Guys I've always wondered for the professional wireless gurus how do you properly perform a wireless survey and what tools do you use be it free or ones that cost do you use to carry out the survey? Also what questions do you attemtp to answer during this survey for example I assume how many...

Guys I'm running an LSI M1015 flashed to a 9811 -IR on a windows 7 64 bit system? The problem I'm having is I can't hibernate the system well it hibernates but when I bring it back up the system crashes and blue screens. I've heard that you can't hibernate all raid controllers so guys is this...

Guys my current file server is a Dell precision 390 which runs 5 Samsung 2TB drives in a raid 5 along with a perc 5i controller. I run Windows server 2008 R2 I'm wanting to retire my perc 5i the card puts off a ton of heat in favor of an HBA style controller where I will just pass the drives...