Hardware
I own a Buffalo LinkStation Mini that does nothing now that the Synology DS409slim owns my files. Because the LS Mini has two 500GB disks, I thought it might do a nice iSCSI target for my ESXi. The thing is: the stock firmware doesn’t offer iSCSI feature.
This is how I turned my LinkStation Mini into a iSCSI target for VMware, using Debian 6.Continue reading...
I’m always looking at how to get informations from my I.T. systems ; although it often ends they do nothing…
Here’s a trick to monitor the disks temperature of a Synology NAS (DS409slim in my case).Continue reading...
I have installed a custom firmware on my Asus Transformer TF101 to be able to use my 3G HSDPA USB adapter . It is running Android 3.2.1. Now that the Ice Cream Sandwich firmware (4.0) is released fot the TF101, it’s time to go back to the original, AKA stock, firmware and run the upgrade the “supported” way.
According to the forums, there are two ways of doing it. Either restore the bootloader and the firmware using the ClockworkMod or use a Windows/Linux workstation to erase and replace the whole system with the official system. I choose the second option as I didn’t understand how to run the first… and the second option is quite similar to the one I used when I rooted to tab.Continue reading...
My brand new ESXi machine is a “standard” Intel Z68 powered PC. It has three disks inside: two SSD and a SATA disk. My idea is to use the first SSD to host some VM (production VM, virtual ESXi, virtual Hyper-V…) and to connect the two other disks to a FreeNAS virtual instance. This enables to present a ZFS storage to the virtual hypervisors.
Here’s the way to attach two of the SATA drives to a single virtual machine using RDM technics. BTW, I’m using ESXi v5.0.0.Continue reading...
I ordered bits from everywhere in the world to get a new, quiet and fresh box. This idea is to replace the “old” Dell XPS M1330 with something better suited to virtualization. And here are the specs :
H3.S Fanless Chassis, with 80W Open Frame Fanless PSU Zotac Z68-ITX WiFi (Z68ITX-A-E) Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5 2500T 2.5GHz 6MB 45W 32nm Quad Core G.Skill Kit Extreme3 2 x 8 Go PC12800 Ripjaws X CAS10 Samsung SSD (MMDOE28G5MPP) M4-CT064M4SSD2Crucial m4 2.5-inch (M4-CT064M4SSD2) WD Scorpio Blue (WDC WD2500BEVT-7) And here’s the baby pic:Continue reading...