Tech Talk / Nerd Musings / Geek Daydreams
I recently swapped out my Infiniband 10g hardware for 10 gigabit over fiber so I snapped a few photos to post this kit on eBay. I thought I’d post them here as well for posterity’s sake. This solution was rock…
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I’ve started working on a stats page for Plague Devastation, my Quake 2 Devastation server, so that I can automate the collection and parsing of the XML log files produced after every match. Right now I have a basic collection…
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There are a few steps involved in getting SNMP functional on ESXi. They go something like this. Set the SNMP community string Enable the SNMP service Add necessary firewall rules Enable the added firewall rule Restart the SNMP daemon SSH…
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Part of building my ESX cluster in my garage was the addition of a 10 gigabit network for the storage layer. This storage layer allows all of the ESX hosts to talk to my FreeNAS iSCSI target which will host…
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The last update for Plague was over fourteen years ago. My kids didn’t exist yet. The idea of my kids didn’t exist yet. But now that I am moving out of my colo and splitting my gear between a 42U…
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Comparing ZFS, traditional RAID and mirroring: The great thing about ZFS for home servers is that it gives you the power of RAID without the need to pay for expensive RAID-cards. In fact, the RAID options offered by ZFS rival…
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I have been working on a SQL Server 2012 database project using Folding@home data pulled from here every hour. As a part of that project I’ve been working on performance tuning my queries to be responsive enough to run from…
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Recently I was having a problem on a Windows 7 PC where Outlook 2013 would randomly ask me for a password to connect to an Exchange mailbox. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get it to remember the new…
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I was experimenting with windows server clustering On Windows Server 2003 and snapped these photos of my lab. My intention was to build a tiered web architecture using multiple load balanced web servers for the app and web layer and…
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I finally got around to building a cabinet for all of my computer gear. I have a lot of PCs for various reasons and decided to get rackable cases for them and stack them all up to keep things organized…
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