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Install NexentaStor to VMware ESXi Virtual Machine Guide

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:13:59 +0000

Recently creating a VMware ESXi virtual machine for NexentaStor was covered in a quick how-to guide. The next logical piece of the puzzle is this guide to getting NexentaStor installed in the virtual machine. There are, of course variations to the installation, so this guide will not cover every variation out there, but it should [...] Related posts:

ZFSguru 0.1.7 (final) Released

Patrick Kennedy — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:00:19 +0000

ZFSguru is a new FreeBSD based storage platform that was started by a FreeBSD and ZFS enthusiast to make an alternative to FreeNAS that tracks closer to a full-blown FreeBSD installation. Over the past few months, quite a few experimental builds have been offered for download and starting today, there is a final release of [...] Related posts:

WHS Drive Extender v2 Dissected at Anandtech

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:59:47 +0000

A quick browse of Anandtech.com shows a nice dissection of WHS Drive Extender v2. The review goes into changes from Drive Extender v1, the way NTFS and the storage pool interact, 1GB file chunks distributed across hard drives in a Raid 0 fashion, 2 bit ECC, application compatability, and even a comparison with ZFS. See the [...] Related posts:

Windows Server Codename Vail – Headless Installation

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:45:46 +0000

Quick tip for those with headless systems that want to test Windows Server Codename VAIL (and that don’t have IPMI 2.0). To create a USB drive capable of a headless installation follow these two steps: Make a USB installer with the win7 download tool and your WHS ISO. Then make a cfg.ini file in the [...] Related posts:

Windows Home Server (WHS) V2 VAIL – Installed in Hyper-V – Early Release Clue

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:41:08 +0000

If one browses this site they will quickly see that I am a fan of Hyper-V virtualization and also Windows Home Server. On April 26, 2010, Microsoft released the public preview of the long awaited Windows Home Server V2 codenamed VAIL. Of course, I did have a test system lying around, but the WHS V2 [...] Related posts:

Windows Home Server (WHS) V2 Vail Beta Preview

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:38:18 +0000

As I am sure most of the Windows Home Server crowd has seen at this point, there is a WHS V2 Codename Vail preview posted on Microsoft’s website. Here is the download link to feature previews https://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/Downloads?wa=wsignin1.0 More information on the public beta and downloads can be found here: http://connect.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver If anyone has used Windows Server 2008 R2, [...] Related posts:

The Big WHS: 8 File-Serving OS’s Virtualized in one 4U Server

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:59:58 +0000

Now that the Big WHS is stable, and I have a bit more storage capacity than I need, I decided that Windows Home Server running virtualized in a Hyper-V virtual machine is good, but I wanted to test out some of the free WHS alternatives. A quck listing of the NAS operating systems installed on the current [...] Related posts:

Testing the “limits” of WHS: 37 Drives = Fail

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:45:26 +0000

I had heard rumors of 32 drives being the limit, so I figured, why not? I had more than 32 1.5TB and 2TB disks in hot swap bays, and could easily handle the connectivity. Plus, since I am booting the new WHS from a VHD, I knew that WHS could mount VHD’s meaning I could [...] Related posts:

The Big WHS: It Multi-tasks! (Thanks to Hyper-V Virtualization)

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:20:16 +0000

Things have been progressing on the Big WHS front. First off, my main PC is now is using the WHS Connector software and has back-ups scheduled on the new WHS. The old WHS is still assembled, but it is not powered on at this point, just in case something goes wrong with the current setup. [...] Related posts:

Four (4) Volume Per Physical Disk Limitation in WHS

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:32:09 +0000

Just as a note to anyone running multiple large disks in Raid 6 for Windows Home Server. I was setting up new Raid 6 arrays on the WHS this weekend, controlled by an Adaptec 31605 and was greeted by a nice error message. WHS is limited to four volumes per physical drive using basic discs. [...] Related posts: