Recent content by DavidRa

Where on earth are you finding them for USD40-80? The cheapest I'm seeing even now for the P3700 800GB is USD100-150, let alone the 1.6TB.

I have not seen this failure mode in any of the environments I've built, so I can't say. Well that config is fine for DNS (though you should also add the correct reverse lookup zones and a forwarder, it's not an absolute requirement). Definitely should have included that in your other...

OK the disconnected ports are the reason Server Manager shows multiple wrong IPs. The ones registered in DNS are more important. Why is your DC using DHCP? When DNS is installed, it should have warned you to make it static. Do that too! You do need to set DNS on the DC to just be the DC...

Your test with nslookup used the wrong IP - I can see you typed 192.169 instead of 192.168. These details are really important, the computer can't interpret typos to get the answers you need. Looks to me like your server might have multiple IP addresses - maybe multiple NICs? You really want...

So, remember how I said "All your clients only use the DCs for DNS" - this sort of domain join failure is a symptom of DNS not working. Whatever you're trying to join to AD must have ONLY your DC IP addresses. This is 100% not negotiable at all. Windows will look up all DNS servers in parallel...

Same here, even after unsubscribing. The "preferences" link is broken too. Half-assed marketing with a dash of "we won't test unsubscribing because no-one would ever want to stop receiving our wonderful spam".

No, the file share won't be a big problem, though permissions could get iffy. You might need to look at permissions after the DC promotion. If this is your first domain deployment, some unsolicited tips: Install the DNS role on your DCs. Once you're done configure ALL your devices to use the...

OP already confirmed that they want multiple ports on the host (most likely on independent network controllers) to act like a real switch as well as a vSwitch. And yes, while "hardware firewalls" do something like this they're not also trying to run through a hypervisor and attach a set of VMs -...

Yeah OP seems to want the virtual switch "bridge" to act like a real switch for all the connected devices. I don't think that's going to happen on any platform - or at least not one I know. Could spend days trying to make this work but it's not the right way to do it (if I understand the desire...

I don't get it. What is the bridge giving you? As a general rule the point of a bridge is to connect two different layer two networks - but I don't understand why switching won't fulfil the same need. Basically I'm suggesting this is an "XY problem" and you're asking for how to make a solution...

Hate to rain on the parade, but I don't think you'll get the interest you want. The product line is EOL/dead, and even two years ago when it was still on life support a used one was half that price (ref: ReadyNAS 628).

Right so I built a second Gen8 with a 6x RAID6 set, this time VMware ESXi 8.0 and a Windows 2022 guest. 300MBps parallel IO from the RAID 6 (reading from it and writing to it at the same time) at about 4-5ms response time. More diagnostics needed, but that's a lot more usable.

Well they all seem to work, but the performance of either the SSD, or it feels more like the P420i, leaves a lot to be desired under Server 2022. Seeing 6MBps writes to a 6 SSD RAID set, or a single SSD, and it's the same with the mirrored SATA SSDs, so I suspect driver. Going to build something...

Nice if true, I'll have to try it myself. I'd read a lot from people who claimed to have tried it and that it didn't really provide full IT mode, but others in the same threads claiming it did, so I wasn't putting my faith in it.

@sth2100 - It's presently in RAID mode, the P420 is too old to support proper HBA mode. vSphere doesn't support software RAID if I remember correctly - so I'd be limited to Hyper-V and Windows dynamic disks, or potentially mdadm or ZFS if it works on Proxmox for the OS drive. I did actually get...