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Building up & testing a new 9TB SATA RAID10 NFSv4 NAS, part III
Six months after starting this project, I received an email from Ryan Ellis asking me if I had any tips regarding this NAS build. Just read your article on the NAS. Amazing job. I would like to replicate what you did. Any tips? Well, I most ...
21-Nov-2010
21:13:00
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Building up & testing a new 9TB SATA RAID10 NFSv4 NAS, part II
After much blood, sweat and tears getting xtendx up and running in our new data center with Green.ch this summer, I finally had time to complete a major "high availability" aspect of our new file server platform. Our basic architecture is fairly simple: ...
15-Oct-2010
16:01:00
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Building up & testing a new 9TB SATA RAID10 NFSv4 NAS, part I
Over the past few weeks I've been building up a new data center for my employer, xtendx AG. One of the core tasks has been to design, assemble and install a new storage system. To that end, I've put together the below NFSv4 Network Attached Storage ...
13-May-2010
11:09:00
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ASCII Art Text for Remote Server Login Greeting
Every time I log into "my babies", I'm greeted by some ASCII art text. It serves two purposes: Let's me know which server I am on, very visibly Creates a sense of pride and ownership, having a flamboyent login This is what it looks like: To accomplish ...
04-Feb-2010
21:47:37
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Our DL380 G5 Servers Turn Two Years Old
It was two years ago that the team at xtendx setup a pair of new servers at a 'proper' hosting company, Aspectra, with quality infrastructure, engineers and network peering in support of new, demanding customer requirements. (Our previous hosting company ...
18-Jul-2009
15:12:00