Turn off the virtual machine, preferably by logging in and do a clean shutdown or if not possible VBoxManage controlvm <machine> poweroff Add another disk VBoxManage storageattach <machine> –storagectl “SATA Controller” –port 1 –type hdd –medium iscsi –server 192.168.100.13 –target “iqn.2004-06.net.strahlert.home:L1” Boot the machine by FreeBSD 9.0 Install and start a Rescue Live shell dd … Read More →
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Setting up a mirror through geom on a GPT labeled disk
Synchronise the disklayout gpart backup ada0 > /tmp/ada0.gpt gpart restore -F /dev/ada1 < /tmp/ada0.gpt Check that everything went as expected. gpart show Add the geom kernel module as loaded on startup echo ‘geom_mirror_load=”YES”‘ >> /boot/loader.conf Add bootcode to the second disk gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 /dev/ada1 Reboot into single-user mode. Then … Read More →
Setting up iSCSI
Should operate on a physical separate lan and VLAN 200 has been set aside for this. Server Install net/istgt from ports and set istgt_enable=”YES” in /etc/rc.conf. iSCSI uses an addressing scheme called iqn which is built up by the reverse domainname along with the founding date. In this case the address is iqn.2004-06.net.strahlert.home /usr/local/etc/istgt/auth.conf Set … Read More →
Restore a FreeBSD installation through ZFS send/recieve
Boot into RescueCD onto receiving machine. Then create GPT partitioning scheme (If a new machine and assuming ad0 is the disk) gpart create -s gpt ad0 gpart add -t freebsd-boot -s 64K ad0 gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 2G -l swap0 ad0 gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l disk0 ad0 gpart bootcode -b /dist/boot/pmbr -p /dist/boot/gptzfsboot … Read More →
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