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  What Is a SAM-SD?
  sam-sd storage open storage nas file server san das • • scottalanmiller

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  @Dashrender said:

  Let's talk about the actual storage you choose for these machines.

  Can be a lot of things: local drives, OEM drives, non-OEM drives, FusionIO cards, Winchester drives, SSD, hybrid arrays, DAS attached chassis... because it is an approach and not a product it is very flexible.

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  File Server Upgrade Options
  • larsen161

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  @larsen161 said in File Server Upgrade Options:

  Goals
  Run a 'proper' storage server OS
  Migrate to more reliable RAID configuration
  Upgrade storage capacity (expect to run out in March 2018)
  Backup data
  Support 6k video editing across a team of 12
  Adding 10Gbps to server
  Adding 10Gbps switch
  Adding 10Gbps to clients

  You can use any existing server you have, but get a decent RAID card, such as a H830 2GB nvcache.
  Go to xbyte.com, and price out something like a Dell MD1400. You could build something nice with a bunch of NL SAS drives. This whole thing will run at 12gbps bandwidth. Hook your server up to 10gbps fiber switch.

  It'll look like this:

  client -> fiber switch -> server -> 12gbps SAS to MD1400 (and back)

  You could probably do the whole thing for under 7k depending on how big the hard drives are and how many. If you threw in 12x 4TB NL SAS drives, it'll be under 7k most likely. You could RAID10 that.

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  Linux OS advice for building a SAM-SD
  • magicmarker

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  @magicmarker said in Linux OS advice for building a SAM-SD:

  @scottalanmiller Thanks for you insight Scott. You make great points. I will stick with a Fedora or Centos OS with the NFS package instead after reading your comments. That is the slap in the face I needed.

  LOL. It's certainly nothing against DietPi. And if you are running ON a Raspberry Pi, I'd certainly think trying that out would make sense (where it is a production release already.) RP is a very different animal from server hardware, so different needs, different sensible tunings and so forth. For the needs of a normal RP deployment, DP sounds like a good starting point. I've not played with it, so can't endorse it, but it looks perfectly fine for that.

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  Advice on building "storage servers" with two DL380 G7 servers
  storage file server proliant dl380 g7 backup secondary storage • • Shuey

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  @shuey said in Advice on building "storage servers" with two DL380 G7 servers:

  The CDW rep said:

  "Is it apple to apples or did xbyte use third party memory and drives? We are dell's largest partner so it should not be a large difference if truly apples to apples."

  CDW might be the largest, but they aren't known for passing along good pricing, being very honest and they only deal in new, not refurb. So it is expected that their prices will be way higher.

  xByte will use non-Dell parts, but keeps them under warranty. So it remains apples to apples. CDW is just panicking because they want the sale.

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  Installing Gluster on CentOS 7
  gluster centos centos 7 linux storage scale out storage filesystem scale scale hc3 glusterfs rhel 7 rhel • • scottalanmiller

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  @scottalanmiller Thanks for this post and answering all my questions. @travisdh1 Thanks for answering all my questions as well. Good Thread!

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  Project: Home/SMB NAS Setup -- Need ur advice
  • markl

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  Virtual. And I think I mentioned that buried in one of my posts about it. Or maybe it was the other thread that this split off of.

  KVM, Xen or Hyper-V all work great here. Physical wouldn't be horrible, but no need for it.

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  To ZFS or not to ZFS... that is my question.
  • markl

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  @markl said in To ZFS or not to ZFS... that is my question.:

  @scottalanmiller So let's get specific, here's my next post: My Home NAS

  I'm on it :)

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  Hardware Design for SAM-DR Small Rackmount Backup Device
  sam-sd sam-dr backup disaster recovery raid storage dell poweredge r320 dell poweredge server perc h710 • • scottalanmiller

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  @JaredBusch said in Hardware Design for SAM-DR Small Rackmount Backup Device:

  @matteo-nunziati said in Hardware Design for SAM-DR Small Rackmount Backup Device:

  @scottalanmiller just a question (sw not hw) why veeam rather than say.. altaro. Just curious!

  There is no backup software on this device. It is a storage target. One assumes that @scottalanmiller will be using some base OS that lets you setup basically any type of connectivity.

  Ok! Got it wrong! Thanks for clarifying

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  SAM-SD Hardware Server Vendors
  sam-sd dell storage servers supermicro hpe huawei • • scottalanmiller

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  @DustinB3403 said in SAM-SD Hardware Server Vendors:

  @scottalanmiller is there a ballpark entry price for SAM-SD hardware? Are you approving all of all the systems designed? Or did you simply license the term (like Trump) licenses his name?

  Prices will be available soon. It's full support, real support unlike SMB devices. So not super cheap :)

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  What is considered 'cheap hw raid' vs 'good hw raid'
  • momurda

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  @momurda

  From my experience, you are correct about the fake raid terminology.

  Fake RAID = is the raid you do on the chip-set level without any dedicated card doing the works, but it fools the operating system that gets installed on-top of it, and does not require any special config from the OS side. I think you can do fake raid for RAID 1 for important workstations like the HR computers for example.

  Software raid = is like mdadm in Linux or Windows 10 storage spaces, it relies on the OS side for everything.

  Read RAID or Hardware RAID is getting a good RAID card.

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  Open Storage Operating Systems for SAM-SD
  sam-sd operating systems windows linux centos opensuse ubuntu freebsd solaris openindiana • • scottalanmiller

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  @matteo-nunziati said in Open Storage Operating Systems for SAM-SD:

  what a mess...

  Windows desktops are loaded with software that you are only limited as to how you can use it by EULA as well.

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  FreeNAS vs Hardware NAS
  storage file server nas freebsd freenas • • IT-ADMIN

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  Looping back to this, in the past month I've worked with three different companies that all experienced significant data loss or downtime because of their choice of FreeNAS. Two suffered from not having front loaded their engineering and had an inability to support their servers during routine operations and caused major outages because of it along with significant cost for repairs, and one company that lost its data because of unnecessary bugs in the FreeNAS GUI code that would have been avoided has they been simply on FreeBSD.

  Additionally this past week FreeNAS 10 "Coral" was demonstrated to be so incredibly unstable a month after being released that they had to recall the release and revert to a "beta" status indefinitely. For a trivial end user application this would be bad, for a critical storage infrastructure component on which companies need to have rock solid faith, it's unthinkable.

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  FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect
  freenas jurassic park effect storage san nas freebsd freenas coral sam-sd blog • • scottalanmiller

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  @scottalanmiller said in FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect:

  HCL

  Yes, agreed!

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  Where the SAM-SD Concept Originated
  sam-sd proliant dl585 g2 nas storage nfs scott alan miller article sam-sd blog • • scottalanmiller

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  The SAM-SD Model 01
  sam-sd sam-sd blog scott alan miller article proliant dl185 g5 nas san unified storage storage • • scottalanmiller

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  Is this the right place to troll SAM?
  • AshleyJR

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  @scottalanmiller said in Is this the right place to troll SAM?:

  @AshleyJR said in Is this the right place to troll SAM?:

  @scottalanmiller I have to say Scott I haven't seen any interesting conversations going on here yet.
  You promised me arguments :-(

  Sorry, what about the guy claiming that Linux is an OS?

  It isn't, FFS what do I have installed?

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  ZFS Based Storage for Medium VMWare Workload
  zfs storage virtualization filesystems raid • • donaldlandru

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  I would recommend looking at StarWind SA for example.
  That solution fits your requirements perfectly, it will also provide you with HA storage that will ensure the business continuity.
  As for support, they offer a single point of contact no matter what issue you face, plus the system will be shipped to your site fully preconfigured and pretested.

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  XenServer - RAID - Home Lab
  raid storage virtualization xen xenserver fakeraid md raid software raid hardware raid • • aaronstuder

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  @anonymous said:

  Does anyone make a cheap raid card?

  Inexpensive raid card no. Inexpensive HBA card, yes.

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  Configuration for Open Source Operating systems with the SAM-SD Approach
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  @GotiTServicesInc said:

  and if we're forced to do Lan, we should be able to trunk some ports together to get higher throughput no?

  Yes, you would likely use 10GigE connections too, since no switch is required.

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  Samba problem
  samba linux network storage • • stacksofplates

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  @johnhooks said:

  So I figured it out. Just like most every other problem I've had, it was something stupid I did. I initially started with a user "john" and set up permissions but decided later to use "jhooks". I had accessed the shares with the "john" username first and that's why some worked. I never added the jhooks username to samba (must have forgot since some shares were working) and that's why I couldn't log into the other shares with that username.

  That will teach me to try to do this stuff on Friday night when I'm tired.

  Well worse things have happened, it could've been a client outage :)

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  Just spit-balling here....
  • DustinB3403

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  @PSX_Defector said:

  @Dashrender said:

  @PSX_Defector said:

  We just bought four new blades with 1TB of RAM. And we buy tons of equipment all the time. Ain't nobody got time to put in RAM!

  They pay you to much to even install the blade, let alone the RAM on the blade.

  Well, someone gotta put it in. And that's the smarthands in the DC.

  exactly - again you cost to much to do that work... I'm salary - and sure, while my time could be spent better doing other things, I'll take my own prerogative in these rare cases of getting new hardware ;)

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  NAS | SMB IT Journal
  • DustinB3403

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