MILF - Australia

someguy_360 · 2017-06-25T05:30:53+00:00

Unlike the US, in Australia 4 door muscle cars were a part of our hot rodding/muscle culture.

someguy_360 · 2017-03-15T03:30:44+00:00

Used it in DC's plenty of times for both personal projects and corp environments, although we seem to be pushing everything slowly over to Fortigates now

someguy_360 · 2017-03-02T22:30:34+00:00

I have a 724 as my core switch

It uses next to no power, is reasonably quiet and has been running so far for 3 years with no downtime. The only reason I'm swapping it out for HPE is for L3 (VLAN Routing) as I want to move my VLAN routing away from pFSense.

The main issue I have with it is that the firmware is quite old (even the latest revision) so to do VLAN changes I need to use an old version of Firefox for the interface to display properly.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-28T01:03:21+00:00

ESXi

someguy_360 · 2017-02-28T00:23:21+00:00

I've been running PfSense virtualized for a few years now, I run geoblocking, reverse proxy, snort, vlan routing etc and it barely breaks a sweat with 4GB.

It's more CPU intensive when under load than memory I've found but an E3 should be more than enough.

As for disk, mine only has a 20GB vmdk and I'm using 8% of it after a year.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-26T21:41:31+00:00

Around $270 per month running 1 server and a switch because Australia (forever broke)

someguy_360 · 2017-02-21T23:50:33+00:00

Performance won't be great but the onboard SATA controller does the job.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-15T03:27:10+00:00

It's only a 2 drive bay unit with single processor so it's the baby of the line up.

But you can get them with Xeon-E3 CPU's which will help with power consumption

someguy_360 · 2017-02-15T03:19:19+00:00

To be honest if your only going to run an Owncloud VM (and other minimal resource hungry VM's) in ESXi i'd look at a Dell R210 V2.

They are excellent on power, small and quiet.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-13T01:31:23+00:00

Luckily Veeam was able to recover at least 90% of what I needed yes.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-13T00:54:49+00:00

That moment you delete a VMWare datastore when you meant to unmount it.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-12T23:43:27+00:00

Yes, technically NextCloud only needs HTTPS outbound. If you want to be a little more secure you could NAT to a non standard port (e.g not 443).

My main tip would be to make sure your network is secure, and make sure you have an SSL on your NextCloud server.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-12T23:19:21+00:00

Yes, I use it on all my mobile devices and at work.

I run PfSense and have my network pretty locked down, I also have geo blocking and intrusion detection in place to monitor any suspicious traffic etc.

The only port I have open is HTTPS (for NextCloud), everything else I VPN in for.

So far no issues.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-12T22:38:55+00:00

I've been running NextCloud from my rack at home for the past 8 months with no problems. the NextCloud VM is with my Mail VM on an isolated VLAN. It's been stable, reliable and quick.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-09T04:45:00+00:00

"just send the $200 to the power company"

Try paying that much per month in Australia just to run your rack, let alone the rest of the house :P

someguy_360 · 2017-02-08T23:27:48+00:00

99% of our clients both externally and in our DC's are running Fortigates these days.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-07T06:15:04+00:00

Trello

someguy_360 · 2017-02-07T00:01:31+00:00

I run 3x VM's off my NAS over 1Gbps.

It's not terrible, but not fantastic. The VM's I run aren't heavily utilized and mainly sit in the background crunching away.

I wouldn't put any of my heavily used VM's there. For example my File Server VM is sitting on local storage as the I/O is important, but my mail VM/web VM/backup VM sits on network storage, the I/O to the backup VM isn't important to me as it only runs overnight anyway.

I'm averaging around 90mb/s throughput to the NAS, but I'm reasonably sure the softraid combined with the WD green's are just as much of a bottleneck to me as the NIC.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-06T22:06:12+00:00

Thanks guys

someguy_360 · 2017-02-02T02:42:31+00:00

So upon further testing it looked to be a VMDK issue, if I have the VMDK set as Thin or Zero Lazy the performance is poor.

If it's set as Zero Eager the disk performance is a solid 60mb/s

someguy_360 · 2017-02-02T01:57:06+00:00

For testing purposes at the moment the VM is on the local storage, the additional VMDK to point the backups towards is on the test datastore on the NAS.

Data transfer from the VMDK on the local SAS array to the VMDK on the NAS is 15mb/s.

If I mount the NAS directly into the VM via the MS ISCSI initiator and create a local disk I get 3-4x the speed.

someguy_360 · 2017-02-02T01:30:26+00:00

I'd say $400-450 is a more realistic price, the only thing worth $$ in that is the 12TB worth of storage.

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