I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 720, which will be known as r720-02. It sits in a datacenter in New York, New York, and acts as a FreshPorts node. For example, if you’ve ever accessed dev, test, or stage [.freshports.org], then you’ve accessed this host. Partitions zpools The zpools: Filesystems The filesystems: dmesg And dmesg:
This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03. It replaces an earlier post. This new post was created because the network card was changed from a 1G fiber card to a 10G fiber card. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls
This post has been replaced by a newer post. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. Today, the host was updated to FreeBSD 14.0, from FreeBSD 13.2. This is my primary developer server in my basement. gpart zpool list zpool status zfs list dmesg sesutil show jls
Yesterday I did some scavenging of some servers which I’m going to dispose of. I managed to put together 4 x 1TB storage devices: 2 x NVMe sticks and 2 x SSDs. I also pulled a riser card from an R730 and relocated it to another host. The NVMe sticks are mounted on these PCIe cards, which I do not regret buying. They came with full height and low-profile brackets. More to the
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FYI: This server has since gone to a new home. After powering off the server about 8 months ago, I took the first steps to selling it. I opened it up and took out 2x NVMe sticks (1TB each, ZFS mirrored, giving a 930G zpool) INTEL fiber NIC (Intel X540-AT2) I’ll be keeping those items. I also took an inventory of the drives still in the system: 10 x 5TB drives – all
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Can I really swap CPU and RAM between my Dell R730 servers? I wrote about that recently. Sure. It might just work. First, let’s look at the service tags and find out. I have four Dell R730 servers in the basement: r730-01 – main development server – contains 2x E5-2650L v3 : add some RAM from r730-04 and swap in the CPUs (E5-2699V3) from r730-02 – 9ZJ1282 – 591-BBCH : PowerEdge R730/R730xd Motherboard
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I have four Dell R730 servers in the basement: r730-01 – main development server r730-02 – unused r730-03 – main storage server r730-04 – unused So what’s on each one? If you look at each of the links, you’ll find this information on CPU and RAM. The information is collected from /var/run/dmesg.boot, but not presented as a direct copy/paste. It has been rearranged for ease of reading. r730-01 This host is used for
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This post has been replaced by a newer one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. Today I noticed this post is out of date. I like to keep this information around for each host, just in case it’s needed during a rescue mission. This is my primary developer server in my basement. gpart zpool list zpool status zfs list dmesg sesutil show jls
This is the Dell R730 host known as R730-03. This post has been replaced by a newer post. It replaces an earlier post. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls
As mentioned in several previous posts, I’m moving a server from one chassis to another. None of the hardware is coming over. Just the jails and data. These drives came from serverpartdeals.com. They are used and re-certified. Recently, I’ve been trying out two new 12TB drives. I’m looking forward to the reduced noise level, as well as the reduced power consumption and heat. In this post: FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p2 The testing zpool I created
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