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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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3TB of Time Machine Backup Storage for the xtendx Office
At xtendx we are big on simple, effective, and most things Apple. With an office of only a few people, we don't have the need or desire for a dedicated "IT Guy" and so those responsibilities generally fall on me. Most of us are on MacBook Pros and have ... 		21-Jan-2010
12:40:08
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Expansion of our 'Network Operations Center' by 50%!
After an application slow down this week due to an aggressive backup, we decided we needed to pay more attention to disk activity on our production servers. To that end, I have added a new monitor to our budget NOC setup that shows graphs on new data ... 		27-Nov-2009
13:18:00
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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
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How and Why I Monitor My Java Web App
It has always surprised me that so many developers confidently send their applications off to production and then fail to monitor them afterward. "It is not my problem now" and "the IT guys will let me know if there is an issue" seem ... 		30-Jun-2009
10:02:00