As the free version of ESXi lack the option to migrate to a new datastore or host, it will have to be done manually. That’s easy enough by logging in to the ESXi shell by ssh and simply copying the VM files. Naturally the VM has to be powered off for the copy to be … Read More →
Setting up a highly available (HA) DNS in FreeBSD 10
In Setting up HAST through CARP preparations were done for making the same storage volume be able to be accessed through a redundant IP-address. Now comes the time to tie this together with an actual application and make the failover automatic. To the right is a graphical representation of all components tied together. In the … Read More →
RaspberryPI running FreeBSD/arm
RaspberryPI is a cheap yet highly capable pico-computer that I recently purchased along with a 16Gb SD-card for storage. As my operating system of choice is FreeBSD, naturally I’d like to install the PI using just that. FreeBSD/arm is available in FreeBSD 10 which is still at beta-phase. For the time being the easiest way is … Read More →
Setting up HAST through CARP
In order to make a highly available (HA) server, FreeBSD can utilize techniques for a highly available storage (HAST) that syncs data between two hosts, essentially a raid1 cross-server. To make a virtual IP address that always follows the master node, common address redundancy protocol (CARP) is used. HAST can only be used for two … Read More →
Expanding a zpool and adding ZIL (log) and L2ARC (cache)
As the nas zpool responsible for storing media and documents have been growing out of its space lately it was time to do something about it. This is how it looked previously. # zpool list san NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT san 3.62T 2.93T 710G 80% 1.00x ONLINE – # zpool status … Read More →
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