Posts Tagged “rhel”

17 Jul: Distributing Static Routes with DHCP

I’m set­ting up an iso­lated net­work for peo­ple to test inter­nal appli­ca­tions on, since the devel­op­ers all have Sun work­sta­tions with a dual-port Gigabit NIC on the moth­er­board, and we’ve got a bunch of older net­work equip­ment that we haven’t got­ten around to eBay­ing yet. What I’m doing is link­ing the sec­ond NICs together with […]

Tags: , , , , 2009-07-17 21:25 1 Comment

26 May: My First JBOD, Part 2: Irony

After unpack­ing, rack­ing, and mount­ing the JBOD, I waited until the week­end had started before pow­er­ing down the server and installing the RAID card. Connected it all up, rebooted into the Adaptec BIOS, and con­fig­ured the 6x 1TB dri­ves into a RAID6 array. After that, I installed the RAID StorageManager off of Sun’s website, […]

Tags: , , , , , 2009-05-26 05:21 4 Comments

23 May: My First JBOD: Introduction

This is me set­ting up a JBOD for use by one or more XEN hosts, using pro­fes­sional hard­ware. It’s not a hack, not throw­ing a shit­load of dri­ves into a PC with some “pro­sumer” SATA RAID cards that require you spend weeks fuss­ing with dri­vers and firmware to get even a min­i­mal write per­for­mance out […]

Tags: , , , , , , 2009-05-23 14:15 2 Comments