Archive for the ‘Storage’ Category

Classic XKCD

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

For those of you who don't follow XKCD, you really are missing out. It's just genius, and today's comic really did tickle me.. (Click for a larger image!) This really is a true story, and she doesn't know I put it in my comic because her wifi hasn't worked for weeks. Well, ...

It’s alive!

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I've recently been building servers again. Aside from the usual 2U stuff, I thought I'd show a few pictures of the current project I'm working on. This 4U Supermicro chassis is destined to be used as our backup/storage server at the co-lo facility. VM backups, database backups, general file store, ...

Crossing the Gigabit barrier

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Recently, I've been charged with investigating into faster-than-gigabit networking, in an effort to switch our VM hosts away from local storage to an NFS-based NAS system. There are a few reasons for doing this; the greatest of which is Sun's ZFS file system. ZFS, for those of you who aren't familiar, ...