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MicroServer FreeNAS project Update! Part 1
So the microserver arrived on Friday!
like a kid in a candy shop
I have been performing tests (memtest/CPU test and all the ports using a boot USB) to ensure there was nothing wrong with the item and as far as I can tell the seller was spot on about it being brand new.
The shiny glory of new hardware
I could not find a single fingerprint on the thing and even the drive caddy screws felt band new as I had to ‘crack’ them with a proper screwdriver because the supplied HP tool felt a bit inadequate. They use those apple Torx screws so that was a little frustrating.
guess HP took a page outta apple's book
I loaded a bunch of old exNAS drives into the server to see if the server would pick them up. I had 2x4tb and 2x2tb collecting dust in my room so I figured I would check them out and make sure that they were suitable for the NAS/microserver (make sure that the SMART was good on them etc.) and you can see by the picture I already did a check on the 2 4tb drives and I found one to be dead.
clearly labelled dead
To my wisdom, I decided to also install some spare ecc registered ram I had lying around leftover from my server. Bump it up to 4 gig, should make it a bit happier.
Here is that post that I talked about, so in it ill be having a look at Open Media Vault and Nas4Free! The system I am testing on is an Intel sg2600gz, a pair of Xeon E5-2650 @ 2.0GHz with 32gig rddims @1600 and raid 1 10k 6gig SAS drives. I know the SAS drives will bottleneck the system so any performance tests are going to be a little lacklustre considering they are also running a few other OS on them. To test the transfer speed I will copy a single 20 gig VMDK file FROM an SSD to ensure the source is not the bottleneck. VM’s are running on ESXi-6.5.0-4564106. Open Media Vault Ver used: 3.0.86 vCPU’s=2 Ram=2gig 5 16 virtual disks (thin) The install process was super easy, just like installing a copy of Debian, once that was all done when to go check out the web UI was it was incredibly clean and responsive! The storage page was layout was simple and easy to understand however I tried to change some settings other than the default raid ones but I found myself unable to d...
So after having a poke around the unit i found out that “On buck” basically means that the incoming voltage from the wall was higher than the output voltage of the unit, so after reading the PDF manual I discovered that I had to set the rear switches to a specific way in order to accommodate the voltage and clear the “On Buck” warning. Switches are now set at 240V based on the conveniently placed diagram However upon testing the batteries of the unit and how long it would last I discovered that the “good” batteries were, in fact, no good! I tested them by putting my laptop charger on the UPS and then unplugged it from the mains, within 30 seconds it died and I was confused and assumed that the unit was dodgy. But I thought I should at-lease check the batteries when the unit was under load to check they were outputting the correct voltages! I pulled the front panel off the UPS and found the battery tray just slides out, handy! The batteries were stuck to the tray and each-other w...
So I was updating my home network now that I have a separate server to handle the pi-hole and DHCP/DNS requests, I decided to fix my VMWare setup. I was using IP addresses because I did not have a proper DNS setup and it caused all sorts of issues (i was running a pi-hole VM inside ESXi off my server), now that all that has been updated and sorted, ESXi was all happy and I could use its name in the web browser! However after updating my vCenter IP, I have run into the Error 503 page, after a quick google, the internet said I should check if the vSphere client service is running! I went to the appliance page and that was running, so I enabled SSH and BASH then SSH into the appliance to check of the service was running. service vSphere-client status While I was in the shell, the internet said I should check the HOSTS file if the IP is correct and matches, turnout it does not match… vi /etc/hosts Using VI I changed the IP to match the one on the appliance page then stopped a...
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