Month: July 2014

Ubiquiti Networks Unifi AP Review

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For the last few years wireless in our house was provided by a Cisco AIR-AP1252 dual band A-G-N access point – as seen here: Let’s just say that it’s not the most attractive thing in the world. I was given two choices by “the board”: either find a different solution, or put it somewhere out of sight. I first chose the out of site option and moved the AP to the basement. This worked for … Read more…

Backing up VMware Virtual Machines on FreeNAS

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Let me preface this post with 2 things: It’s going to be short and sweet It assumes you’re using NFS for your datastores (which you should be – since writes are SYNC, the snapshot should be clean) First, you need somewhere to move the backing files – in my case, I take a tiered storage approach. VMs run on several spindles of 10K SAS; CIFS storage is on a few 2TB SATA drives; offsite is … Read more…