ZFS Primer
Finding Run Away ZFS Disks Sometimes your ZFS drives on your disk runs away with you. Then you quickly need commands to see what ZFS
Disk Management
Adventures in SDN (Software Defined Networking) in Proxmox
Creating VXLANs: Example: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesdn.html#pvesdn_setup_example_vlan VXLan Setup Example Create a zone: ID: vxlan1 Peers Address List: 192.168.0.1,192.168.0.2,192.168.0.3 Create a VNet named vxvnet1 using the VXLAN zone myvxlanzone created previously. ID:
NVMe/SSD Cheat Sheet
NVMe and SSD comes in different forms. SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC References https://www.xda-developers.com/ssd-wear-might-be-the-most-overhyped-hardware-problem/ https://www.xda-developers.com/specs-to-care-about-when-buying-ssd/
Oversubscribing LVM-Thin on Proxmox – warnings
Background LVM-Thin is great because you don’t use all the disk space and can share between hosts. However, it’s dangerous to oversubscribe if one of
Interesting Smart Messages
List of Useful Commands smartctl -i /dev/sda smartctl -H /dev/sda smartctl –all /dev/sda smartctl –all /dev/sda | grep -i power_on Proxmox Observation I recently observed
TrueNAS Scale on Proxmox VM and iSCSI with directly connected driver error
Here is an easily reproducible error that happens on Proxmox (perhaps also TrueNAS Core iSCSI NAS) that doesn’t seem solvable. The errors do not stop
How to replace a broken mirror on a Supermicro X8DTT
Dilemma. One of the mirrors on your Supermicro has gone. No SNMP management to pick this up? See another article on this website. It’s evident
Dealing with Disk I/O Error with TrueNAS Scale with Passthrough and Proxmox
NAS refuses to start up. Icon has exclamation and triangle. Hover shows I/O error. Examine /var/log/syslog, search “Error IO”. Apr 3 16:21:14 hvX kernel: [4948799.898572]
How to mount a USB NTFS disk on a CentOS 7 server
Identify the drive lsblk In my case, I did a lsblk before and after. Then I saw this new item: sdd
Adventures in rebuilding a Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise Mirror on a Supermicro when one disk is problematic
An adventure with mdadm on a broken hard drive A Supermicro server started acting up. The problem was evident on startup – a lot of