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Dell iDRAC 7 manual fan control

The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) is designed for secure local and remote server management. The iDARC monitors system health, checks and logs what is installed in the system and controls the servers cooling systems. As you may have discovered, when you cross flash a Dell H310 raid controller to IT mode and as …

TrueNAS Block Storage & ESXi (Part 1)

TrueNAS Core In part 1 I cover some basic ZFS theory and the layout of a high performance ZFS pool for ESXi VM block storage. I will be using TrueNAS Core, which in my opinion is hands down the best free storage platform on the market and it is open source. TrueNAS Core will give …

Set up Cisco MDS DS-C9148-16p-K9 with 2 VSAN’s

The Scope I’m going to setup Fibre Channel storage network to connect ESXi 7 hosts to a TrueNAS Core storage server using a Cisco MDS series switch. I’ve chosen to use Fibre Channel for my VM datastores because of it’s great performance and reliability and the fact that it works so well with VMware ESXi. Fibre …