Occasionally you will have the need to use physical volumes which exceed the limits of the standard DOS partitioning scheme. When you run into this a quick fdisk -l will reveal that you will need a new way to partition your disks. Fdisk will produce output similar to this… Use…
Bash: Duplicate Logical Volume Configuration for a Volume Group
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to create a large number of Logical Volumes for a server replacement situation. I could have done some manual data input, but why not take the opportunity to quickly write a script to do the hard work for me? For my…
Adventures in ZFS: NexentaStor with Dell Poweredge R515 Onboard Broadcom NIC
So recently I dealt with a rather aggravating problem. Basically I had a couple of Poweredge R515’s to be built with NexentaStor Enterprise, which would not get a valid network configuration. The Problem During the initial setup via the console… I selected bnx0 as the primary and set it to…
Equallogic: Remove Volume Snapshot Reserve
So if you purchased a Equallogic and put it into production one of the first things that you notice is that your xTB didn’t go as far as you originally planned, this is because Equallogic by default comes with a 100% snapshot reserve on all volumes that you create. This…
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…