Hp storage D2d4324 nfs slow xenserver
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This d2d is a paper weight for me. can i install freenas or something like that on this device?
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@mroth911 said in Hp storage D2d4324 nfs slow xenserver:
This d2d is a paper weight for me. can i install freenas or something like that on this device?
why hurt your situation with freeNSA? just put some flavor of Linux on it you like and share the space out!
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@mroth911 said in Hp storage D2d4324 nfs slow xenserver:
This d2d is a paper weight for me. can i install freenas or something like that on this device?
Avoid FreeNAS but "something" might be good. FreeBSD, OpenSuse, CentOS or Ubuntu. I would expect that you can, but you are into totally unsupported territory and trying to treat a device purchased to be a blackbox as a whitebox. So you are left with a hobby class device, at best. Is there a good reason to not just scrap it? It's a spent device.
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What do you mean by spend device , I need help setting up HA for my web hosting system. I want to be able to fill up my servers that i have for web hosting, Also have automation as well. When clients purchase hosting. there domain/account auto provisions. Right now I am using cpanel with WHM. So my orignal thought was to have a nas/san house my vm's and connect the nodes to the nas/san. Now reading here, and learning that is not a good idea. So I want to try to reuse the d2d and not throw it away completely,
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@mroth911 What, exactly, is the make/model of this d2d device?
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@mroth911 said in Hp storage D2d4324 nfs slow xenserver:
What do you mean by spend device , I need help setting up HA for my web hosting system.
It's a device that depends on its black box nature and support from the vendor to be useful. It no longer has that and is now a useless device in a business setting, at least for production use.
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@mroth911 said in Hp storage D2d4324 nfs slow xenserver:
I want to be able to fill up my servers that i have for web hosting,
So that would be production use, definition don't let this device be considered for anything other than archival or backup usage. And even there, I'd be wary.
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@mroth911 said in Hp storage D2d4324 nfs slow xenserver:
So I want to try to reuse the d2d and not throw it away completely,
Why not just throw it away? It's a spent device, time to be recycled for scrap. We regularly throw out for recycling devices that are far more useful. This falls below what I would bother using even at home, although many would use it there. It's costly to run, problematic to maintain.
If the only intended usage is as a backup target, then perhaps FreeBSD would make sense. But think carefully about anything that has you depending on an unsupported device. What if it dies, what do you do?
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@travisdh1 Hp storage D2d4324
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OK
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As a non-inline, backup or archival unit, I would trust this system if you get it working nicely. Likely FreeBSD or OpenSuse will be ideal. If you get it running in that capacity, then sending backups to it will be a great use of it. As long as it is not a dependency for any running system, it would be viable.
