Virtualization, EUC, and Computing in General
I have long been interested in getting into Home Automation ever since X10 came out many moons ago. Having watched, researched, and debated several of the major HA vendors and products, I finally decided to take the plunge. The choice was not easy – products based on UPB or Z-Wave seemed to provide a higher reliability than others…but they also came with a higher price tag. X10 essentially died off…Insteon has a great range of … Read more…
I recently storage-VMotion’d all of the lab home lab VMs over to FreeNAS based storage. It is an NFS share based on 4 10K 146G spindles configured for RAIDZ – deduplication is turned off, instead opting for lzjb compression. The physical specs of the FreeNAS host are the same as in this post. Keep in mind that there are several other VMs banging away at these 4 disks. That said, 75% write\25% read (75% random) is considerably … Read more…
New from Insteon – Micro Modules! At just under 2″ x 2″ x .7″ – they will pretty much fit anywhere! These could very easily fit behind any switch in a box, or pretty much anywhere. Last line is the best part: Every Micro Module is Dual-Band! This is game changing! Plus the sense wires for existing switches…can’t wait to get a hold of a few of these. More info is available HERE at SmartHome
I should probably call this one “FreeNAS Performance: The REAL Test”…my previous performance tests were completely unfair to FreeNAS and I’d like to show what it can really do. So – what was wrong with the first tests? FreeNAS needs RAM for ZFS to do what it does best A single spindle just isn’t a good test for ZFS Didn’t do my homework on FreeNAS or ZFS FreeNAS needs RAM – more than 3GB … So … Read more…