A good way to backup the OS of the servers is to use rear Relax and Recover. Following are the steps to ensure that we have a proper rescue data set for both servers. STEP 1: Install rear from the Fedora repo on both nas1 and nas2 [root@nas1 ~]# dnf install rear [root@nas2 ~]# dnf… Read More »
I am planning to deploy a test openStack infrastructure, “Minimal architecture example with legacy networking (nova-network)”, on the 2 x Hp MicroServer Gen 8 setup from my home data centre. The nova-network architecture needs at least two nodes and on each node a minimal of two network interfaces must be available. The HP MicroServers have… Read More »
When you want to have a secure set-up for your data storage having only two disks available a LVM over a RAID 1 set-up looks like the best solution. When an upgrade is necessary then having two separate RAID 1 based LVMs is no longer so appealing. To keep the same reliability of a disk… Read More »
This is a followup of the first post Backup setup for two HP Microserver Gen8 NAS servers . The new HBA arrived , an HP LSI 9217-4i4e 8-port SAS 6Gb/s RAID Card which is in fact the HP OEM version of the LSI 9207. The positive: it came with three different SAS to 4xSATA cables. The negative: it came only… Read More »
I am using two HP MicroServer GEN8 as NAS servers with the following setup: NAS1 (Linux Fedora 21): LSI SAS 9207-4i4e Host Bus Adapter Kit (4 Port Internal, 4 Port External, 6Gb/s SATA+ SAS, PCIe3.0 HBA) RAID1 : 2x WD Red 5GB on the LSI HBA – RAID1 data read speed is around 145MB/s so… Read More »