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Upgrade DAY!
Tomorrow is the day! Everything seems to be working, so tomorrow I shut down all the server, move some hardware around and bring everything up inside VM’s using VMWare. The final plan includes setting up the main server with 4 250GB SATA II hard drives setup with RAID5 and a hot spare, which gives us [...]
We have RAID
I managed to get the RAID array working this week. So we now have RAID5 with a hot spare working. That with removable hard drives will make up our DR plan. I’ve been getting all the VM’s setup this week and everything is working well. Last night I tested the new PDC VM and it [...]
Server Upgrades
This weekend we worked on some of the server upgrades I’ve been planning for so long. Unfortunately I’ve been having trouble with the hew RAID card I got for my SAN, so I wasn’t completely ready to do everything I had hoped. I ended up working more on the RAID card, and a volunteer helped [...]
Hardware Burn out!
I got most of the hardware I ordered and I started assembling everything. I re-assembled my SAN in a new case and added all the new hard drives yesterday. Then during the day this morning I started noticing a kind of burning smell. I couldn’t track down the source of the smell, so I walked [...]
Asterisk
Our fiscal year ends this week and a new one begins next week. So I’m looking over my budget and figuring out what I’m going to get when. I came up with some estimates a few months ago when we had to submit our budgets, but now that’s all done and it’s about time to [...]
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan on a Budget
I’ve been working on our Disaster Recovery Plan (Backups) lately, and I’m trying to do what I can so that we don’t just have disaster recovery, but we also do what we can to guarantee business continuity (things keep working). Of course the big problem is I don’t have any money to do this with [...]
iSCSI SAN
There’s been so much talk about SAN’s lately, and I knew my budget would never allow me to purchase one, so this week I built my very own iSCSI SAN. I put together a system with an AMD Athlon64 X2 AM2 3800+ with 2GB DDR2 800 RAM, a 20GB IDE HDD for the OS and [...]
Linux on the Ipaq
Last week I tried something I’ve been wanting to try for a long time. I ordered an old Ipaq 3650 on Ebay and installed Linux on it. In order to install Linux you need either a serial cable (usb won’t work) or a compact flash sleeve. I just happened to have a CF sleeve from [...]
Hardware
I finally came to a conclusion why I could not get everything on my HackLab to work. It’s because I’m using spare parts out of my garage that don’t work. I’ve gone through two hard drives already. The PS/2 ports on my motherboard don’t work. I’m sure there’s got to be other things wrong with [...]
It’s Alive!!! and CRS
OK, so last Monday I sent my laptop to HP, and 2 days later I had it back… FIXED!!! I’m now in love with HP!! Thank you HP for fixing my laptop so quickly! My wife collects animated gif’s she refers to as blinkies. So last night she was going over her blinky folder and [...]
