usefulgeek » projects http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog rants, reviews and kind hearted messages from some geeks Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:08:40 +0000 en hourly 1 Open Source storage server http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog/2009/10/open-source-storage-server/ http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog/2009/10/open-source-storage-server/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:29:28 +0000 jonmoore http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog/?p=152 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This is not going to be a full review, but more a general take on things.

Since moving from VMware Server to ESXi to host my virtual machines, I’ve been very interested in looking into some more of the advanced features of ESX and ESXi yet most of these require iSCSI.  I remember from a few years back using Openfiler to do some simple samba file sharing, and remembered it supported iSCSI as one method of giving out storage.

Now, I’ve yet to use any of the features of ESX that require iSCSI, or even setup Openfiler to export storage via iSCSI, but I have been using it for simple file sharing and must say I’m quite impressed.

Setup is a breeze, taking about 20 minutes on an older PC. Management is done almost entirely through a web interface, that is very easy to use.  Unlink many of the other appliance packages out there, the web interface is very simple and straight forward.  Very much impressed with that.

Over the next few months I’ll be exploring Openfiler much more, and hopefully getting into some of it’s more advanced features including interface bonding, md devices and clustering.  I plan to keep updating as things more along.

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]]> http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog/2009/10/open-source-storage-server/feed/ 0 Using source control for config management http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog/2009/04/using-source-control-for-config-management/ http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog/2009/04/using-source-control-for-config-management/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:13:26 +0000 jonmoore http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog/?p=98 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> A project involving asterisk has forced me to find a way to help manage my configurations. I’m going to give using subversion a go at helping me to keep some level of change control and really simple backups, and I’m going to share my thoughts on that here. This post doesn’t have any new details, it’s simply a way for me to remember to update :-)

Stay tuned.

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