I have two new drives for zuul. I’ll start adding them into the zpool soon. For now, here is the smarctl output for the new drives. I’ll start some tests on them soon. By new, I mean new to this host. The drives have 17,000 hours on them. [dan@zuul:~] $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/ada2 smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p7 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START […]
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This covers the facts regarding the list of things to do on Server Build Saturday. The slocum – the new hardware changes occurred on 2 February 2019, with the help of a guy I’ve known since my early days in PA. jb33z did the heavy lifting, both of the chassis and of the HDD. He moved all the HDD from the old server to the new server. I did the SSDs, which were
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This post has been replaced by a new one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. This server was upgraded on Feb 2 2019. Only the storage persisted. Everything else was upgraded. The hardware M/B – Supermicro X9DRE-TF+ RAM – 128GB composed of 8x 16GB DDR3 1600Mhz 21300 ECC/REG CPU – 2x E5-2620v2 – Intel Six Core 2.10Ghz Xeon 15MB cache 7.2 GT/s QPI (80W) chassis – SC846E16-R1200B SAS9300-8i
Tomorrow I’ll be doing some server and rack work. I’ll be moving one system into a new chassis, combining two desktops into the old chassis, and putting both chassis back into the rack. There are a bunch of steps here and I want to write them down so they all get done. These steps were completed last night: Remove tape01 and tape02 from the rack. Remove the shelf from the rack which held
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Current FreeBSD versions will allow you to create a zroot zpool from which you can boot. However, when I created the main zpool for slocum (on Fri May 3 2:16 2013), that option did not exist. You might ask: how do I know that date? [dan@slocum:~] $ zfs get creation system NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE system creation Fri May 3 2:16 2013 – At present, the system boots from a raidz2 zpool. This
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This post has been replaced by a newer one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. The most recent change was extracting the beadm boot environment to a new zpool, zroot. For future reference, this is the slocum server, which I use for various jails and services. It is mounted in the 4U chassis mentioned in this post The filesystems, well, some of them: And dmesg:
I have added comments to the output of this command. This is a brief description of what runs in each jail. This post has been replaced by a newer one. slocum slocum – named for the first person to sail solo around the world This host also runs a DNS and DHCP. [dan@slocum:~] $ jls -v | grep ACTIVE | cut -f 2 -w | sort bacula – runs bacula-dir, main component for
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This is x8dtu (named after the SuperMicro motherboard). This is the new FreshPorts server. The older post is still available In short: FreeBSD 11.2 booting off a mirrored pair of zfsroot SSDs 4.5TB of mirrored ZFS 196612 MB of RAM (yeah, that’s 196GB of RAM) SuperMicro X8DTU motherboard Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz (two of those, giving 16 CPUs) NOTE: this post replaces
This post has been replaced by a newer post. This is the previous post for this system configuration. For future reference, this is the knew server … oh wait, I think it’s this server which is was mounted in the 3U chassis mentioned in this post (perviously erroneously referred to as a 4U). It runs a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. It is now mounted in a SuperChassis 846E16-R1200B This recent
This server, knew has had an intermittent problem related to CAM status: SCSI Status Error messages. There is a FreeBSD Forums post about it. On Sunday, the problem returned, and this time it degraded the zpool. I collected the information in this gist and I will list the relevant portions below. I had enabled smartd testing and I received this email late on Sunday: Despite the promise of more information in the logs,
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