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I have new hardware available – should I upgrade or not?

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I brought home three Dell R730 after saving them from ewaste. Two of them have 8x 3.5″ drive bays. One has 8x 2.5″ drive bays, with with for another 8. This is the one I’m considering for use. I have a fourth R730 in the basement, but I don’t know those specifications, and it already has 16 drive bays. I was thinking of replacing my Dell R720 with one of them, but just […]

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Updating firmware etc on a Dell R730

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EDIT: I’m updating this post with new information, I’m missing some photos – they are on my other laptop… EDIT: If you get stuck with older firmware which cannot use existing DELL infrastructure, give https://updateyodell.net a try. It helped me leapfrog along the upgrade path. I started reading Updating firmware etc on a Dell R720 – the details were in a Twitter thread. Until recently, that was sufficient. Today, that thead won’t load.

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Accessing a Dell iDRAC 7 via Nginx reverse proxy

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HEADS UP: this is still under review. Until this notice is removed, I recommend not using this. I have a Dell R720 at an ISP. The iDRAC connection is filtered, by the ISP, and is accessible only from a small number of IP addresses. Sure, this talks about a web proxy. It works. So does the ssh forwarding shown at the bottom of this post. NOTE: I should start monitoring that IP addr

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Duplicating a zpool

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I have these boot drives, I want to copy them to another. They both happen to be zroot and bootable. I booted from mfsBSD and imported both new and old zroot, using the pool ID shown by zpool import -N. root@mfsbsd:~ # zpool import -N pool: data01 id: 2668514456528412656 state: ONLINE action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier. config: data01 ONLINE mirror-0 ONLINE gpt/S59VNS0N809087J_S00 ONLINE gpt/S59VNJ0N631973D_S01 ONLINE mirror-1

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Dell R720 flashing Dell PERC H710 mini into IT mode

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Dell PowerEdge Servers are common in #homelab use. The hardware gets sold after it goes out of warranty and they get dumped. Most of the disk cards in these servers come flashed for use with RAID and RAID only. Never use a RAID card with ZFS. Always give ZFS direct access to the drives. I won’t go into the details because the reasons why are easily researched. These cards usually arrive in IR

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r720

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This host has been retired. The services were distributed amongst r730-01 and r730-03. This host was often referred to as r720 or r720-01 (after r720-02 appeared on the scene) This replaces a previous post. I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 720. It contains: 6 x 400GB SAS SSDs – data01 zpool 2 x 100GB SAS SSDs – unused – I think this is da0 and da1 2 x 80GB SATA SSDs – zroot

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CAM status: CCB request completed with an error

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Well, this isn’t very nice. Oct 26 20:18:23 r720-01 kernel: mps0: Controller reported scsi ioc terminated tgt 20 SMID 334 loginfo 31120303 Oct 26 20:18:23 r720-01 kernel: mps0: Controller reported scsi ioc terminated tgt 20 SMID 394 loginfo 31120303 Oct 26 20:18:23 r720-01 kernel: mps0: Controller reported scsi ioc terminated tgt 20 SMID 259 loginfo 31120303 Oct 26 20:18:23 r720-01 kernel: (da11:mps0:0:20:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00 0c 13 ec 68 00 00 08

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Migrating all your iocage jails to a new host

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In this post, I’m not exporting an iocage jail to another host. I am moving the entire iocage instance to another host. This is accomplished by doing a zfs export on the zpool, moving the drives to a new system, and doing a zfs import. The drive migration is covered in a previous post. In this post: FreeBSD iocage old host: R710 – r710-01 new host: R720 – r720-01 The first power The

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Migrating drives and the zpool from one host to another.

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Today is the day. Today I move a zpool from an R710 into an R720. The goal: all services on that zpool start running on the new host. Fortunately, that zpool is dedicated to jails, more or less. I have done some planning about this, including moving a poudriere on the R710 into a jail. Now it is almost noon on Saturday, I am sitting in the basement (just outside the server room),

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