New Mellanox firmware available on the Dell website for the ConnectX-3 (Pro)!
Normally I wouldn't get excited about this, but for S2D implementations and Dell PowerEdge R730xd this is very...
Quizzz: RAID1 setup for the OS in a S2D config..
So following my BSOD post for the S2D config I got lots of responses of people who had similar problems. As it already took me quite some time as converting RAID to/from non-RAID requires a...
Read MoreDell 14G servers are here!
Normally I wouldn't blog about new hardware, but due to our recent adventures with S2D, I'm making an exception for the Dell R740xd;
Some things I noticed;
- The R740 seems to have a RAID1...
BSOD after enabling S2D on R730xd with RAID1 setup on OS disk
So we got our hardware and got busy. First up was testing if the S130 RAID1 setup could perform enough because there were some rumours the software RAID on the S130 was terrible. I did a quick...
Read MoreWe got our S2D hardware!
So our hardware arrived and we got busy!
We unpacked the servers and saw that the 200Gb drives which were meant for the OS were inserted in the front instead of the back. This was easily fixed...
Read Moresome things I learned ordering a S2D configuration
So, It's been a while.. We were busy getting the hardware in, but that seems to be a bit more trouble than normal, it took us 3 months due to the lack of details on technet and 3 months getting...
Read MoreStorage Spaces Direct Technet update!
I was a little frustrated with the lack of info about Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) on technet, but it seems it has been taken care of as it was updated a few days ago (It took some time writing...
Read MoreWSL2016 and Storage Spaces Direct
So we were at WSL2016 in Dublin to see what the new 2016 server would bring.
Normally we wouldn't go to such a event as I think this content is better viewed from the blogs of critical IT...
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