harmon
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Hi,
Excuse me for duplicate posting (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5026&start=1670#p51762).
I only like to request for include all LVM drivers. These are missing at time: dm-log.ko; dm-region-hash.ko; dm-mirror.ko
Thank you!
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Hi,
Someone is working on fix this?
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I hope soon SSD support is added! This is a must have!
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Hi,
I'm in the same point: After the xhci support we need the driver for AX88179 devices (99.99% of all USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet Nics are based on this chip). So, please, add this driver to the XPE!
I suggest to create a shared repository with KERNEL drivers not included in the release. It's very easy to copy the .ko file to the install directory and enable it in the boot.
Someone likes this?
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The price i found was £180 for a G8 & £130 for a G7.
However I intend picking up an N40L which i can play around with and then get a Gen 8 if need be.
Proces on UK are...
Here, I found G7 for 140€ and G8 for no less than 299€ (regular prices around 400€).
Anyway, I prefer AMD over Intel because the limitation in the MAX RAM. I hope HP will release soon Microserver G9 with AMD CPUs.
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Hi,
Please, think on this:
- Price of G7 N54L is 1/3 than Gen8, so you can purchase THREE G7 instead of one G8.
- You can add ALL memory that you like on G7: 2x8GB of RAM.
My opinion is that HP has done a big mistake changing from AMD to Intel in the Microserver line: All Intel chipset have artificial limitation about RAM.
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Hi,
I repeat: forget USB DVB-S2 devices!!!
http://www.amazon.de/Smart-Satelliten-R ... B00DILS7JY
55 Euro, DVB-S2 (1 tuner) SAT>IP server... working 24/7 from several months. Less expensive that a USB DVB-S2 receiver, and without the problem of drivers... SAT>IP is a PROTOCOL, and don't need DRIVERS.
Belive me: NO MORE USB DVB-S2 DEVICES, NEVER MORE!
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Hi,
When a package of drivers for DSM 5.0 (or 5.1 beta)?
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Forget to use PCI or USB DVB tuners.
Upgrade to next level: SAT>IP servers!
You can purchase devices with 4 DVB-S2 tuners for €120, or devices with 1 DVB-S2 tuner for €50 (Mirage CX STB).
I run several of them with clients inside virtual machines. No difference between PCI/PCIe/USB devices except that you don't have any hardware troubles!
S.M.A.R.T. using ESXi
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Hi,
This is a continuation of some ancient threads:
http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4080
http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1848
I like to reopen this topic because, from my point of view, the most relevant limitation using virtualization for runninng XPEnology is the lack of smart monitoring
Si, I propose a new solution for SMART monitoring using ESXi.
Yes, using Physical-RDMs is possible to read SMART values!
So the only problem is enable this funtion in XPEnology.
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First, read these two pages:
1) FlexRAID using ESXi: http://www.flexraid.com/2014/02/07/stor ... m-vs-vmdk/
Go to point #14 and see the proposed solution for read S.M.A.R.T. info using pRDM: "smartctl --device=sat,auto"
2) Manual of SmartMonTools: https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/t ... rtctl.8.in
Go to point "-d TYPE, --device=TYPE" and see the reason of use this command:
"sat[,auto][,N] - the device type is SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT). This is for ATA disks that have a SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) Layer (SATL) between the disk and the operating system. SAT defines two ATA PASS THROUGH SCSI commands, one 12 bytes long and the other 16 bytes long. The default is the 16 byte variant which can be overridden with either '-d sat,12' or '-d sat,16'.
If '-d sat,auto' is specified, device type SAT (for ATA/SATA disks) is only used if the SCSI INQUIRY data reports a SATL (VENDOR: "ATA "). Otherwise device type SCSI (for SCSI/SAS disks) is used."
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As a proof of concept I do this test on my current XPEnology instance (5.1 running on top of ESXi 5.5 with 4 HD in PHYSICAL RDM)...
So, as XPEnology is using smartctl for read smart values, I suggest to include some support for use this tweak when calling to the command or provide some function for tweak (add new parameters) to the call when the user likes to use some virtual environment.
You agree?