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yes it will, you need to take the top and bottom/side panels off of it (its two panels) and it will fit in a rack just fine
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yes it will, you need to take the top and bottom/side panels off of it (its two panels) and it will fit in a rack just fine
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Thats what i thoughtYou ever try freenas8 ?
I have all my iscsi stuff running off it.
Never heard of that... was going to use openfiler but decided to just use the storage server so I can have another dc incase the esxi box looses connection or something.
Some new toys arrived the other day at work.... time to get learning IOS-XR
Let me know how those things run, especially if you do heavy multicast. I'm going to replace some of our 6500s with beefier routers for 40gig/100gig MAN connectivity (next year). It's a race between the 9K and MX960... think I'm leaning toward the 9K.
Nice boxes btw!
CaseyBlackburn
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If you want to use iSCSI, I recommend staying away from FreeNAS. FreeNAS is good if you want to do NFS/SMB/CIFS, but you were heading the right way with Openfiler since I saw you were using iSCSI.
aaronearles
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I agree, my experience with FreeNAS and iscsi was very frustrating, I switched to openfiler and my problems went away. FreeNAS has a lot of cool features that openfiler lacks, but stability isn't one of them.
that's weird, im running freenas 8 and have 4 vm's running from iscsi and no issues at all. Been going strong since last week.
What were your problems with it ?
aaronearles
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To be fair, I was running 7, but when putting any kind of load on it over iscsi, mine would reboot. It also pissed me off the changes that required a reboot, and when it was pending reboot, it wouldn't allow you to make any other changes.
Example: Bonding two network interfaces for link aggregation...
I don't remember the exact process but it went something like this
Create lagg interface -> reboot forced -> set aggregation mode -> reboot forced -> configure static IP -> reboot forced.
That was frustrating enough to make me look elsewhere, although once it's up, it's up. So that would have been fine, if not for the iscsi instability.
Openfiler was a little more troublesome to configure, and much more basic in features, but if that means it's rock solid, that's fine with me. I have not tried FreeNAS 8, maybe I'll give it another shot someday for a general purpose NAS, but not for anything critical.
Example: Bonding two network interfaces for link aggregation...
I don't remember the exact process but it went something like this
Create lagg interface -> reboot forced -> set aggregation mode -> reboot forced -> configure static IP -> reboot forced.
That was frustrating enough to make me look elsewhere, although once it's up, it's up. So that would have been fine, if not for the iscsi instability.
Openfiler was a little more troublesome to configure, and much more basic in features, but if that means it's rock solid, that's fine with me. I have not tried FreeNAS 8, maybe I'll give it another shot someday for a general purpose NAS, but not for anything critical.
CaseyBlackburn
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I was running FreeNAS 8 with clients such as Win2k8 and ESXi.
I hated the reboot for a configuration change too, especially when setting up a LAG when setting up remotely.
I believe it started in 8, they revamped the iSCSI bits a lot and I find it more unstable. Performance is insufficient for me. I went from 2MB/s to 550MB/s over iSCSI from moving away from FreeNAS with iSCSI. Plus the file-based LUNs or whatever they called them seemed to make it even more unstable if used. It was stable with NFS though.
FreeNAS is more of your goodies for the experienced home user, while Openfiler is more like your stable opensource SAN replacement that does it's job and only it's job.
I hated the reboot for a configuration change too, especially when setting up a LAG when setting up remotely.
I believe it started in 8, they revamped the iSCSI bits a lot and I find it more unstable. Performance is insufficient for me. I went from 2MB/s to 550MB/s over iSCSI from moving away from FreeNAS with iSCSI. Plus the file-based LUNs or whatever they called them seemed to make it even more unstable if used. It was stable with NFS though.
FreeNAS is more of your goodies for the experienced home user, while Openfiler is more like your stable opensource SAN replacement that does it's job and only it's job.
well, weird, i don't have any issues at all, i have one target on my win7 machine, and 4 on my 2008r2 box with hyperv,
4 vms :
Another 2008r2 that i rdp to for my desktop email, calandar & book keeping software etc etc
debian webserver
2 phone servers
linux desktop
all running 24/7 no hiccups etc etc just runs smooth.
4 vms :
Another 2008r2 that i rdp to for my desktop email, calandar & book keeping software etc etc
debian webserver
2 phone servers
linux desktop
all running 24/7 no hiccups etc etc just runs smooth.
Lightworker
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I have one of my baby 3560's mounted on those...I kinda wished the logo was on the front side of the ears though
Me too. We just got one of the baby 3560s too:
Wasn't sure if we were getting it today, so I took the pictures of the ears and then the switch showed up
^^ i want that 2400
It's not overly exciting. I think i would rather have the 3500 / 4500
I like the ports on the front, makes wiring and stuff cleaner, I'm just about to purchase a NFR210, spent the weekend tinkering and laying out my network, and vlans
The sonicwall makes is so nice and easy, i love it!Dash.
jeffmoss26
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What model is that 3560?
It's the compact 3560.
greengolftee87
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Note to self: Check on firewall every once in a while.
Looks like your working that beast pretty hard... More ram bigger cpu...
greengolftee87
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Reboot. No idea wtf happened. Plenty of ram/cpu to go around on a normal day and when I hammer it.
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greengolftee87
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Dont know, the UI was barely responding and I couldn't ssh in. So i rebooted it gently while I could.
Yeah, looks like you were down for about five minutes. That's a bummer.
^^ i want that 2400
O'rly? I just got two of them from work for free. score. currently using an 1811 at home, but maybe I'll give one of those a shot, I think it's got some ssl vpn licenses on it.
Vito_Corleone
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Ew, why?
jeffmoss26
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is the 2400 just a router? could not find any info...
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My pfsense box has had the habit of sometimes just freezing up requiring a reboot. Rare but it does happen.
jeffmoss26
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My bad, thought he was referring to the Cisco router lol
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