Manual Control of Dell PowerEdge Fan Speed (12G, 13G)

August 6, 2021
Tips/Tricks
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If your like me and have a home datacenter, or have a bunch of Dell servers a small home lab, the fan speed curves in the iDRAC are very aggressive. They are normally used inside data centers where audio reduction is not a priority. Being said there are some simple tweaks you can do to…

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oVirt Setup with PowerFlex (ScaleIO) Storage

July 19, 2021
CentOSTips/TricksVirtualization
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For many of us out there, running VMware as the only hypervisor is quite expensive. Especially when using a SDS type of storage solution, such as PowerFlex, or legacy ScaleIO. In this post, will contain pointers and gotchas, which require modification to successfully deploy. Configuration of Engine & KVM Hosts For this deployment, a standalone…

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iSCSI Storage for VMware ESXi

April 7, 2021
Tips/TricksTrueNASVirtualization
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A million opinions on storage for ESXi over iSCSI from FreeNAS/TrueNAS, all boiled down…

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VMware ESXi iSCSI.MaxIoSizeKB

April 7, 2021
Tips/TricksTrueNASVirtualization
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A long awaited find and tweak to iSCSI performance…

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Restoring GRUB EFI Bootloader

February 5, 2021
Fedora
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Thanks to a Lenovo BIOS update, I got a crash course on generating a new UEFI config…

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Intel SSD DC P4510 Optimizations

December 30, 2020
SSDTrueNAS
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Configuring for max performance…

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Mikrotik VLAN CRS3

December 19, 2020
Networking
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https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Bridge#VLAN_Example_.232_.28Trunk_and_Hybrid_Ports.29…

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Mikrotik Serial and Console Access

November 22, 2020
Networking
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sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 Borrowed from: https://cyberlab.pacific.edu/resources/lab-network-hardware-console

FreeNAS iSCSI on R730xd with H730/HBA330/Optane 900P Passthrough in ESXi

February 10, 2020
Uncategorized
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In case you run into this like I did…

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Crypto Rig Bill of Materials

April 4, 2018
Mining
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I’ve been asked to document my current go-to parts manifest for the crypto mining rigs I’m running…

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