Posts and Pages Tagged "solaris"
2011
Feb 23

Booting Solaris After a Motherboard Upgrade

As part of the recent hardware upgrade to my ZFS file server I replaced the motherboard. I’d never replaced the motherboard on an active Solaris [...]

2011
Feb 20

ZFS File Server Hardware Refresh

I recently decided to indulge my inner geek by doing a hardware refresh on my home ZFS file server. The system had served me well since moving to ZFS from my previous system but there was room for improvement.

ZFS File Server

Specifications Total storage raw: 6.5TB Total storage usable: 3.75TB Case Norco RPC-4220 – 20 hot-swap bay, 4RU chassis PSU Corsair HX 750W Motherboard Supermicro X8STE [...]

2008
Jan 1

Moving to ZFS

(January 2008): My file server is full and I have no options for expanding it. The server is a white box system running FreeBSD with [...]