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, ...