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| 1331258 | 2013-03-04 23:35:00 | Hi all, I have scored a 7 year old ML350 G5, and have installed ESXi 4.1 on it. I am hoping to setup a decent NAS system on it with 4 of the available 6 disks. I have looked at FreeNAS, however not sure if its the hypervisor layer on it or lack of VM Tools, but write are very slow 2-4MB/s, where as reads are 80-90MB/s on my gigabit network... Also looks at OpenFiler, but still not impressed with anything so far... I saw the Amahi Home Server page, and really media stream is the primary goal here....Has anyone used Amahi Home server, what base system did you use?, anyone with ESXi hosted NAS software here? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1331259 | 2013-03-05 00:19:00 | Used an earlier edition and it worked OK, was going fine till the Hardware craped out but never got it going again after that, Now got 2x WHS'ers. Gary uses it a bit, hes the man to advise the goods and bad of it. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1331260 | 2013-03-05 01:14:00 | If you're a windows man then I'd go Windows 2008/W7/w2k3 and put drive bender on it (drive pooling - adds redundancy without the need to raid and like sized disks - leaves the disk system as plain NTFS). | psycik (12851) | ||
| 1331261 | 2013-03-05 01:22:00 | I'm a big fan of FreeNAS, it does all the streaming, DAAP (iTunes) etc! I'd figure out why that was going slow and work from there, personally... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1331262 | 2013-03-05 05:54:00 | yes i have an amahi server, i don't have it doing dchp though as its mainly used as a backup and media storage. Greypool works well as an alternative to raid sort of. The amahi hda connect app for remote conecting is the best thing they have released. It just sits in the corner with 2 cables power and ethernet and does its thing. I'm running it on a P4 intel with 4 hard drives |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1331263 | 2013-03-05 06:18:00 | Did you use the HP ESXi disk or a generic one? What is the RAID config? You could probably run 5.1 on that. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1331264 | 2013-03-05 07:27:00 | Wow didn't realise G5s were that old :) All the ones we have in production are still under warranty. Why do you want to use ESX? I also vote for fixing the FreeNAS issue. |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1331265 | 2013-03-05 08:48:00 | G5's are damn old, we have G8's at work now days. You must have extended support or pretty late purchase if they are still under warranty. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1331266 | 2013-03-05 09:47:00 | Yea they're extended warranties and I guess must be late purchase because I don't think you can extend beyond 5 years. | WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1331267 | 2013-03-05 19:29:00 | Did you use the HP ESXi disk or a generic one? What is the RAID config? You could probably run 5.1 on that. Hi Alex, Using HP ESXi and the RAID controller is E200i...However as 4.1 has 2TB datastore limit, I have 3 x 1TB in RAID5 and single TB which I was going to use for VMs, hence Warnox, the reason Im running a Hypervisor....seems such a shame to waste 12GB RAM and 4 cores just for a NAS box... I suppose I could try 5.1, though not sure how much RAM you are allowed on the free version, I thought it was 8GB?.....I dont have much experiemce with 2012 Server yet, so I might try that with the new Hypervisor....One of the PSU is knackered, so if anyone has one, drop me a line and Ill buy it off you! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
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