The Great Rack Migration – Dell R420
This post continues my migration into my new rack. After migrating the X10SRH, I really thought I was done. Everything was now in the rack and working like it should.…
The Great Rack Migration – X10SRH-CLNF
This post continues my migration into my new rack. The X10SRH is my primary hypervisor. It holds a Xeon E5-2640v4 and is full of 32 gigabyte sticks of RAM. Fractal…
The Great Rack Migration – D1541
This post continues my migration into my new rack. As more and more parts arrived, it became time to migrate my Supermicro 5028D-TN4T. This tiny little server packs quite the…
The Great Rack Migration – D1521
As part of my continued rack migration, it was time to move the D1521. My Supermicro D-1521 host is my "whatever I need it to be" server. As I test…
The Great Rack Migration – D1518
So after a number of years labbing, I decided it's time to graduate to a rack. This is my series of posts documenting the migration. I deal with a lot…
A New Switch for a New Day
I am constantly on the hunt for new switches. Between finding the right combination of power consumption, noise, and 10Gb, it seems like there is always something new on the…
Building a ZFS on Linux Fileserver
After my recent migration back to ZFS on Linux, I decided to roll my own GUI for server reporting/management. Unfortunately, as referenced in the above linked post, I recently picked…
The ZFS walk-of-shame with Seagate and OmniOS CE.
This is a bit of a long one, so I’ll put this first. The TL;DR Opinion #1: OmniOS and Napp-IT are nice, but there’s a good chance it’s not worth…
Building a Disk Tower, for all pain and no profit
In my lab, more than anything, quiet and power-sipping are the two factors that matter most to me. That means most of my servers are towers instead of rack-mount gear.…
Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25
On almost a daily basis, I am bombarded with ads on Facebook for the Sense. This device allows you to monitor whole-home power consumption. I could probably find room for…
