@FATeknollogee said in XenServer install on SuperMicro: software RAID question:

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer install on SuperMicro: software RAID question:

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer install on SuperMicro: software RAID question:

I remember there was a previous thread about a USB stick, but that involved physically removing the stick & making a copy.
Whatever happened to having a "live" 2nd copy?

You can still make a copy of a SATA DOM to a USB stick.

Can you automate this ?

Not realistically, no.

It was amazing that Scott found it so fast. I was on the Windows side of things. Inside Windows they were using the iSCSI initiator to connect to the FreeNAS. All the sudden Windows would just log a ton of iSCSI events and go down.

I looked up the events and most people resolved them by putting the iSCSI traffic on a separate NIC. This happened two days in a row at about the same time each day. I was looking at snapshot, backup, etc times when Scott found it in the FreeNAS logs.

@DustinB3403 said in Firmware Update Warning on SuperMicro from FreeNAS:

@scottalanmiller said in Firmware Update Warning on SuperMicro from FreeNAS:

@DustinB3403 said in Firmware Update Warning on SuperMicro from FreeNAS:

Why are you using FreeNAS? Every conversation ever with someone asking should I use FreeNAS or something else for my storage device, @scottalanmiller has always had the same answer. Use CentOS, or purchase a Synology.

So where did this come up that you are on a FreeNAS box?

Because we support customers. That's how customers work.

Don't get offended, I was just asking.

Don't feel bad. @scottalanmiller hasn't had his coffee yet this morning.

This is currently postponed. A lot of systems being built tonight. Don't know if we will get back to this one right away of not.

@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 🙂

SuperMicro is beginning to make the lines between Tier 1 and Tier 2 blurry as they increase their level of engineering on their products and begin to offer more and more enterprise class support for their products.

@Dashrender said:

Maybe I should dump this idea and get a ReadyNAS 104. Looks like a 4 drive unit can be had for around $160, as long as I do any processing elsewhere, this looks OK.

Would be a lot smaller and quieter for home use.

As an update, CERT even put out an advisory to have folks not expose their management interface: http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-207A. I'd like to suggest taking it a step further. Other management interfaces, such as hypervisors, web control panels, SSH logins, etc. should not be exposed to the Internet.