OK so you have been kicking around an old NT machine for years, neigh, a decade. So what do you do with it? Realistically the machine has already sustained numerous failures, and it won’t make it through another one. We have all fought this battle. I personally fought this battle…
Dell PowerConnect 6224: Stacking Module Dual Master
We use a couple of Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches in our storage network, however when they were first deployed we ran into an issue with the stacking modules. Basically when you brought up the switches they would both see themselves as master, and would not “stack” correctly. Turns out the…
iSCSI Initiator: OpenIndiana
Alot of my time is spent handling storage from the array side, however recently I had the need to test both sides of the process in order to perform some exclusionary tests against a fully adaptable environment, without impacting our production environments, so I ended up using OpenIndiana 151a on…
Adventures in ZFS: Configuring iSCSI Targets
The most critical thing about any storage implementation is flexibility. This means that you need to be able to adapt your solution to changing environmental considerations. The nice thing about a ZFS-based solution is that all of the building blocks are available. If you want to use it as a…
Traffic Limiting with PfSense 2.0 RC3
PfSense is a FreeBSD-based firewall distribution, which is extremely flexible for both businesses and individuals. Additionally this platform can be installed on small ALIX hardware with Flash Memory as the storage all the way up to a full server deployment. To give you an idea of speed, the small ALIX…