You find yourself sitting at your desk on a Saturday morning waiting for the cloning of a VM to finish. It seems to take forever and I just wished I could run VSAN in my homelab to get some more speed out of my kit. I have tried to run VSAN on my home mode […]
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Performance test of Iomega StorCenter PX4-300R
End of 2009, beginning of 2010 I put an Iomega StorCenter IX4 to the test and published the results in these two blogposts: Putting your storage to the test – Part 1 iSCSI on Iomega StorCenter IX4-200D and part 2. Recently Iomega sent me their new StorCenter PX4-300R for testing purpose and I was happy […]
When you can’t reconnect to NFS share on your IX4-200D
In my home lab it sometimes happens that I lose power and then my Iomega IX4-200D will reboot. Often, the ESX hosts I run in my lab have trouble reconnecting to the NFS share on the IX4-200D which will cause my primary VMs to fail. Both my domain controllers, vCenter server, SQL Server and Exchange […]
Configuring SNMP monitoring for the IX4-200D and IX2-200 in SolarWinds Orion
As you’ve all read in previous postings, I’m the proud owner of the new Iomega IX4-200D. After stressing it for two other blog posts, I was playing some more with all the features and tried to configure SNMP monitoring of the box. As monitoring application I have SolardWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor and I can […]
Putting your storage to the test – Part 2 NFS on Iomega IX4-200D
After performing the tests with iSCSI and discussing the results with a friend of mine, I was a little disappointed as it seemed that the IX4 didn’t seem to perform as well as his system. Biggest difference between my IX4 and his NAS was the use of iSCSI on the IX4 and NFS on his. […]