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    What You've Just Bought!

    Re: The What You've just Bought thread! ok, I can see that. When I read it, the first thing that popped into my mind was "ATM Machine"
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    What You've Just Bought!

    Re: The What You've just Bought thread! seemed redundant
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    What You've Just Bought!

    Re: The What You've just Bought thread! I see what you did there... :p
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    how do i stop these damn phone solicitors

    I love my work phone, on outbound calls, my number shows up as 555-1234 or something like that. Only 7 digits, starting with 555. Its great. Nope, I am not a telemarketer, I am a network support engineer.
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    What You've Just Bought!

    Re: The What You've just Bought thread! Just bought 48 Gigs of memory to put in my server.... Oh yeah, I bought a server, that was almost 6 months ago, lol. Check the server build log in my sig for more info on it... HP 16GB 4X 4GB PC3 10600R Server Memory 500203 061 500658 B21 | eBay
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    Newbie looking to create simple home server.

    This is pretty much the scenario I have right now as well, minus the cameras, but that is something I want to incorporate down the road, but it would likely as mentioned be on its own dedicated setup, similar to what I have now. Personally, I went with a rack mount setup, and bought a rolling HP...
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    Setting up a home server

    It turns out I made a mistake, as this is my first ever dance with Virtualization at all. I was under the impression that the virtual guest would be limited only by the free space on the drive(s) on which it resides. It turns out that isn't the case, and the guest has a finite amount of disk...
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    Setting up a home server

    I want to start off by thanking everyone for the assistance through this project, it has been GREAT!!! Work and family life has been busy, so I haven't had much time to tinker on the server. Things have been better this week, so yesterday I took the time to format the OS drive on the server...
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    Setting up a home server

    Throwing in an additional quiestion about the virtual guests.... Would it be better to set up a folder inside of the zpool at /mnt/Storage/Virtual/<hostname> for each virtual host running on the server, or would it be better to have a separate drive, say a 500 Gig drive for the virtual guests...
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    Setting up a home server

    I was working on the Zpool last night for ENTIRELY TOO LONG. I was up till nearly 02:30, so I only got about 3.5 hours of sleep.... JOY.... My issue was that the pool would create without issue, I could get the directories working, and visible from a computer on the network, but I couldn't...
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    Setting up a home server

    I have made some significant progress with the server so far this week. DONE list: Verified that all 12 of the hot swap bays on the backplane work. Haven't moved data to drives in each slot yet, but verified that the drives are at least seen by the OS in each slot. Flashed IBM M1015 to run in...
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    Setting up a home server

    The Here is the 22U HP server rack I picked up. It is on casters, so mobility is great should there ever be a need to move it. I am not in a HUGE rush, but a future project will be to cover the bottom space, likely with a thin sheet of plywood, or something like that, then to incorporate some...
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    Setting up a home server

    Sorry c0rr0sive, to be honest, I have NO IDEA what ESXi is, haven't ever looked into it. With the CPU heatsink, if you are referring to the one that the drive cage is on top of that isn't the CPU, it is just a chipset heatsink. The CPU's both have beefy heatsinks on them. They are the ones...
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    Setting up a home server

    So, I am starting to get time to actually work on this server. The current install of Ubuntu Server will be redone, because it was set up on one of the 60 gig SSD's that will be used for L2ARC and ZIL. Once I get my 250 (or 240 or whatever it is SSD) that is in my PS3, THAT will be the OS...
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    Setting up a home server

    I picked up an extra 4TB drive, because I plan to be running a single VDEV with RaidZ2, so ~16TB usable. I got 2 sets of SFF-8087 to SATA breakout cables, but will need to get another one. The first one I got I didn't notice was 0.5 meter, and just too short. I MEANT to get the 1.0 meter cable...
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