Hi guys,

good evening.

Today, I received the earlier described serverboard, the Intel S3000AHLX – and it was DOA (Dead On Arrival). I’ve tried to get it work with the new delivered E5400 CPU and with my Q9650. No success. Even my older “non ECC” (which should also work in this board) DDR2-533 memory did not worked. So – after 4h’s of trying without ANY sign on the screen, I gave up. It must be the board that was DOA. I was a bit surprised that the packaging of the board was opened when I’ve pulled it out of the delivery box. Now I know why – as it seems.

Everything was sent back – in anger, I admit. So – no server for me – no PC based anymore. I’m really annoyed of all this, but I’m looking forward for the Mac mini server in spring next year. Maybe I’m just too old to put my hands into hardware and try to get them run

I’m just disappointed about the shop – sending stuff that was already opened and broken.

Ciao
Dennis

PS. No – I’ve currently no idea how to store my data in the moment. Maybe better get a Hydra soon?

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Hi guys,

last time I’ve told you about my plans to get a Mac mini Server later. My plan was to use a “Hydra” device with Firewire 800 and connect this to the Mac mini Server to provide storage to the network.

The idea was nice, but I had one painpoint. Don’t get me wrong, I think that the Mac mini Server is a great thing for communication services like eMail, calendars, addresses, wikis and more. I still plan to get one of them in spring.

But regarding a fileserver, I now have new plans. Look – I have this Areca RAID controller which works fine (when I “just” use 6 of the 8 ports), and it runs great using Debian as filesystem. iSCSI will work great to backup my MacBook and the new iMac (which will hopefully arrive end of overnext week (17/18th or December)).

I already have a low power CPU, board and RAM here, but this ECS board makes me more headache than a nice “great to have my data save”. I had trouble with the memory all the times. Have the board off power for a few days? Be sure to have to remove and replace the RAM modules! No – that’s not a system that I’ll trust.

With the help of a friend, we’ve collected 3 parts to upgrade my fileserver to a save, low power and performant server.

Part 1:

This is the Intel S3000AHLX Server Entry mainboard. It supports ECC RAM (!) and comes with LSI Onboard RAID Controller as well as with 2 Intel GBit onboard NICs. Sexy!

Part 2:

The Intel E5400 DualCore CPU joins the party. It’s 45nm Low Power (65W max.) CPU which is more performant than my current AMD64EE CPU. It’s clocked at 2.7GHz and has a “Wolfdale” Core.

Part 3:

2x 2GB ECC RAM completes the setup. It’s Kingston memory – Memory that I trust most (and Hynix, which I’ve ordered for the iMac already, but that’s another story).

I will put those new components together with my Areca RAID Controller (1220 PCIe x8) into the bigger Chieftec MESH tower case and attach 6x 1TB and put them into RAID5 or maybe RAID6 (not sure yet).

As mentioned before, I will use Debian Lenny as OS which gives me the option to use AFP, Samba and iSCSI as storage connection options. Also, I’m happy to use LAMP for Development things. The intranet will run on the Mac mini Server, I’m sure – maybe combined with the newer fileserver.

That’s it for today. Now, I’ll turn back to get into Billings 3, a great accounting software for the Mac, that I will possibly buy and use for my company. It’s still 2 months until my launch, but I want to be prepared

Ciao
Dennis

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Hi guys,

well – yesterday was one of those days you whish you simply stayed in bed

Early in the morning and before work starts, I recognized that the newer WD Green 1TB HDD I’ve just added together with a Seagate 1TB HDD to the server’s RAID (s. last post) decided to drop out of the RAID. Urgs! Not good for a 7:30am session. Trying to get this drive back into the RAID failed. Seems that it’s really broken. I’m somewhat happy that it’s a hardware based RAID5, so I could do a backup of the data from the server.

Bad enough.

Around noon, I suddenly heard an “uncool” sound from one of the two RAID0 disks inside my Workstation. I’d just installed it the same morning, switching completely from OSX to Windows 7 on my Workstation. Right after hearing this sound (a “huiiiiii” “clack”), a bluescreen appears on the screen. Uh oh! Rebooting the system showed me, that the HDD was dropped out of the RAID0 and so – of course – all the work from the day was gone. Luckily I just had installed things, because I have to work and have no time to play with the Workstation the same time.

The 2nd broken harddisk was a Samsung 250GB SATA-II HDD with 7200upm and 16MB of cache. I checked the date it was produced: May 2008. Oh!? I found the invoice instantly (thanks to my wifes very well sorted folders ). I still had warranty.

So I went to the computer store, where I bought it on 08.08.08. No that’s no joke! It was really bought that day . What I like at this store is, that they don’t do those buerocratical dramas like smaller shops. For example: I brought my broken ArcticCooling PSU back to the other dealer and they send it to the manufacturer – so I will have to wait 2 weeks to see if I get money back or not. Anyway. So they simply exchange the HDD if I wanted to, but I had something else in mind. Getting a credit instead of getting the same damn disk again. Don’t understand me wrong. I like and nearly 100% used Samsung HDDs in the past, but today, I’m much more happy with WDs. So I decided to get 3 of their WD Caviar Blue, 640GB, 16MB cache and 7200upm instead of the same 250GB Samsung disk. Funny enough, I got back 45 Euros for the broken drive. The new price last year was 49 Euro. Great deal

When I came back home, I’ve put all 3 new WD Caviar Blues into the Workstation and created an onboard RAID5 (ICH10R) and I must say, I’m really happy with it. The speed is of course not as good as if I had used my Areca RAID controller, but it’s a bit faster than a single drive and it’s reliabel. And that’s what counts for me.

Wondering why I didn’t got 3 or 4 larger ones? Well, that’s easily explained: I don’t need that much storage in the Workstation. I’m happy with the 1.2TB I now have after substracting the 3rd HDD for RAID5 parity. 4 were simply too expensive in the moment, but I still have 3 more SATA slots available and 3 more slots for additional HDDs

Now, that the RAID in the server was broken, I had to recreate the whole RAID and I thought it’s maybe a better idea to also remove the Seagate HDD from the RAIDset, too. The external 1TB backup drive is filled by 99% and I need a 2nd one, so I simply put this Seagate 1TB HDD into an external case and have more space for the backup.

While being more or less happy with the Debian as server, but still pretty annoyed with user and system rights and just got the Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 via MSDN, I wanted to try this of course, as it’s based on Windows 7 and no more on Vista and should be WAY faster.

The first issue was: How the hell to get the server OS to recognize the Areca controller?! Everytime I load the drivers, I get a message that it’s not the right one.

Hmm… I tried it with the German and the English versions (Full). I also tried it with USB and floppy disk (yeah those fancy 3.5″ 1.44MB plastic things I still have a USB floppy for those cases and it’s cool as it is sooo retro . But – unfortunately – no success. I was in contact with the Areca support for some days and I had the feeling that they were just using Evaluation copys of the Windows Server 2008 R2 in their labs. So I went to the Microsoft website and downloaded the Evaluation of the English version. Voilá – it works! And I was able to use my serial numbers with this as well. Ok – so I don’t want to use the English version and got the German Evaluation version, a bit unsure if the driver and my official serial number will work here. It does!

Very strange, but that’s the currently only work around. I think I will get a newer reply from Areca in the next days telling me to do this workaround

By the way: It’s a shame that I’ve paid 400 Euro for a controller and they still have so much issues with Windows Server 2008 R2 and ALSO with Windows 7. Luckily I’m using no Areca controller in the Workstation. Maybe the next one will be an DELL/LSI Perc/i6/7 or an Adaptec one.

So that’s it for today Enjoy the weekend!

Ciao
Dennis

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Hey guys,

having a reliable storage is nice. Having it in well designed case is even better. Until last week I had stored my main server “Belldandy” or “Hadron” which know listens to the name “Spike” (request of my wife ) in a 4U 19″ case. This was nice as it fits into the 19″ rack in the basement, but it was horrible if you need to change something. And I just speak about adding a new card (like ISDN or network card). Because I had no rails installed, this makes the whole thing a bit more complicated. I had to remove the whole system from the rack everytime which is kinda annoying. On top of this, the new bought (1 1/2 years ago) cases were never really good. Yes – you can add up to 6 HDDs internally, but you need to fix every HDD with at least 6 screws plus the 5.25″ cage was accidently broken because of bad quality.

My wish was to use the Areca 1220 controller completely and not “just” 6 of the 8 ports. So I’ve got 2 more 1TB HDDs. A few weeks ago I’d bought a new Chieftech MESH case initially to put the server into the home office room, but it turns out, that it’s simply too hot here when I run this system side by side with the Workstation, the ThinkPad T61 for work and my MacBook the same time. So I decided to use the 4U 19″ case. Bad mistake. Since this case just had 6 internal 3.5″ bays and the Chieftec has 8 of them, the decision was clear – the server has to be moved back to the huge case.

Another thing that was (for my surprise) broken way too early was the ArcticCooling 80+ power supply that I’d used in the server. The switch does not work. I’m honestly not sure if it ever worked, I had added the power cord to the supply and turned on the machine then in the past. I hope I can give it back. I will try that today. As a replacement, I’ve ordered a luxury power supply. For a machine that runs 24/7 mostly, I want to have something reliable and also highly energy efficient. My choice: the Corsair HX750W with cable management, 90% Energy efficiency and a BUNCH of connectors. 3×4 SATA cables came with the supply and 2×4 MOLEX ones as well as 4x PCIexpress. Not that I need all of them. I’d stick with 2×4 SATA & 1×4 MOLEX to run the server. The graphics card is an pretty old but reliable ATI PCI card which is fine for a server.

I’ve mounted it all to the newer case and the result looks like this. I’m still a bit in love with the fancy stack of HDDs

Here are some “screenshots” of the Areca controllers setup when setting up the storage. The initialization (as background process) for the 6880GB Volume took around about 25-26 hours! Luckily you can fully use it at the same time and install your system meanwhile.

Last, but not least, here are the details of the new server:

- Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4GHz (E6600)
- 8GB DDR2-800 Kingston RAM
- 8TB RAID5 Storage (8x 1TB HDDs, 7x WD Green, 1x Seagate)
- 120GB System Volume (RAID5)
- 6.8TB Storage Volume (RAID5)
- Areca 1220 PCIe x8 RAID controller
- Onboard GBit network
- HFC-S ISDN card PCI
- AVM ISDN card PCI
- ATI PCI graphic card
- Corsair HX750W 90% EE power supply
- OS: GNU/Debian Linux “Lenny” 5.0.3

If you have any questions, feel free to post a comment or send me an eMail

Ciao
Dennis

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Hi guys,

a few days ago, I received an eMail from StarWind Software who are asking me if I were interested in testing their product – the Enterprise Server. So they’ve send me a licence to play around with it and I took the time to do it.

By the way: It seems like they are on a war path at the moment, they also asked Sally, who is the fiance of Stefan to test it, too. Read there review on the linkes pages

Overview about the systems I use for the test:

Server (Target):
- Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition 64bit SP2
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2.4GHz (2x)
- 8GB DDR2-800 RAM
- 6x 1TB WD Green HDDs, managed as RAID5 by an Areca 1220 PCIe x8 hardware RAID controller

Client (Initiator) 1:
- Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard
- Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GHz (2x)
- 4GB DDR3-1066 RAM
- 160GB SATA HDD

Client (Initiator) 2:
- Windows 7 Ultimate x64
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650, 3GHz (4x)
- 8GB DDR2-800 RAM
- 2x 200GB Samsung HDDs in an “onboard” RAID0

Description:

iSCSI – that sounds like a lot of fun, right? Well, it is! iSCSI is a kind of a network protocol that includes the SCSI protocol and allows to use it inside a network. Huh – complicated stuff, I know.

Well, to explain it easily: You can create a “real” harddisk inside your computer by using your regular OS tool like the Harddisk-Utility in Mac OS X or the Device-Manager (diskmgmr.msc) in any Windows system. The client system itself needs to be ready to do this.

Mac OS X is itself NOT able to do the initator job, as far as I know, but there’s a free System Preferences Plugin with the name globalSAN iSCSI Initiator for the Mac and they give it away for free (free like free beer).

Windows 7 (and also Windows Vista previously) are able to use this server-based-service from scratch and install the iSCSI initiator with the system installation.

Installation:

My very first step (of course) was the installation of the Enterprise Server software on my Windows Server 2008. The installation was quiet easy and it turns out, that the software itself is also quiet easy to use.

The StarWind Enterprise Server console on the Windows Server

Creating an image file is just one of a lot various options

The next step was to create an image file as base for the test-HFS+ harddisk I wanted to create.

Snow Leopard connects to the iSCSI server:

That was “easy peasy” and a few minutes later, I had connected the globalSAN iSCSI initiator with the server. (Note: the globalSAN software was installed earlier).

The globalSAN iSCSI initiator for Mac is seeing the iSCSI device. Ready to rumble

The Disk Utility now also recognize the iSCSI device and allows me to do whatever I would do to a regular harddisk. In this case, I’ve removed my Test HFS+ partition and created a new one which I’ve called “Klein2″ for this test.

CMD + I shows this volume information (sorry, in German on this screenshot)

Windows 7 connects to the iSCSI server:

For my surprise it was a bit easier to use Windows 7 than to use Mac OS X – because I had just to put in the servers hostname “belldandy” and the targets where found on the fly.

The Windows 7 iSCSI initiator is able to find the targets on it’s own if you tell it hostname of the iSCSI server. No more annoying URL typing!

The diskmanager is ready to create partitions on the iSCSI device.

Explorer view of the formatted (NTFS) testvolume.

Speeds:

iSCSI performs very fast – in my tests on real computers (no VMs used for this test), I get around 100MByte/s by copying huge files (4.5GB ISO of Fedora) from the PC/Mac to the target. Max peak was around 200MByte/s from the RAID5 in the server to the RAID0 in the PC itself, but after a few seconds the speed comes down to the already mentioned peak of around about 100MByte/s.

This speed is VERY good and a bit faster than my Samba2 experiences or on the same level.

Usage:

The normal user would ask what is the benefit of using a SAN device instead of building in a normal HDD into the computer or using a NAS or use a Windows Home Server.

SAN is made for enterprise class networks like huge companys. I had explained this to a friend last Friday and I think it was a good example:

A company with 100 users uses a program that needs direct harddisk access. Instead of buying 100x 80GB HDDs (for 40$ each), they build a huge SAN server with some TByte of storage. No user would ever use the full 80GB of the storage, and so they need to buy less storage capacity overall. Additional benefits are the usage of a secure RAID5 or RAID6 (for example) storage. It’s A LOT easier to backup, because none of the 100 user PCs or ThinClients has to run over night for a backup.

I think those points are very good reasons for iSCSI usage. Additional, the management is way easier than using a shared SMB/NFS or AFP storage, because you don’t need to fight with rights.

If I would do video editing and need some very large devices (and I speak of 20,30,40TByte), I would go for iSCSI on a reliable server.

Also, Mac users would like to use iSCSI for Time Machine.

There are a lot features inside the Enterprise Server that I haven’t tested. Ok – I’ve used the RAM drive, but it just makes sense for temp. databases and scratch stuff in my mind. Maybe a 8GB scratch over the network is not bad for Photoshop? Well, sorry – but that would be mostly slower than your local harddisk.

Prices:

While there is a limited (2TB max.) version of StarWind Server for free, the regular server costs 600$ while the Enterprise server costs 2995$. A lot money, but if you want to use it in an Enterprise network, I think it’s really worth it. The absolute pro is, that you would use it in a heterogeneous network instead of adding a SUN based Solaris/OpenSolaris distribution to use iSCSI. You can easily backup the virtual drives, because – if you use file images – they are just that: simply files. Oh! Before I forget: You can also create Snapshot volumes. How cool is that?

Useful link: iSCSI on Wikipedia (EN)

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Hi guys,

4 days ago, I’ve posted about the pain of selecting the right OS. I would love to write: “I’ve found it! XYZ is the perfect match for me!”, but this does not happen (yet). And believe me: I don’t make it easy for myself.

I leaned back for an hour or so and thought about the local infrastructure here. Thinking about 3 screaming servers in the basement, a screaming loud Linksys GBit 19″ switch and a powerful PC at the attic. Hmm…

To be honest, after thinking for a time, I ask myself for what I will need it, I thought about energy costs and virtualization aspects of the new Q9650 CPU in my workstation. The servers are running at a very low CPU and RAM usage (sure, Linux uses around 100% of the RAM, but just because it’s there). Hmm… 2 wasting servers and an IPCop. Do you get what I was thinking about? Right! The workstation could handle some VMs while running, this would save me around 160 Watts. Calculate this over a month, a year – win/win – without loosing the comfort of different servers.

Good point – in my mind and the first step into the right direction. (Some of you may think: What!? He has so great hardware and think about not using it?! – Yep! But good to have a backup, right?).

Turning to the workstation, here’s what I did in the last few days on my PC.

First of all, I’ve removed the RAID from my server HADRON and put it back to the PC. Initially I’d bought the RAID for the workstation. I wanted to run Vista, having 2 graphic cards in the PC aswell. A PC that could be created by Stefan Didak

The truth is, I have a different scope of (private) work I’m doing here at home. Work is done on a single ThinkPad using Windows XP.

But back to the last 4 days. Now, that I’ve set up Windows Vista on the 6TB RAID, which is nice fast and secure, I’m trying to get back to Windows day by day. It’s pretty hard, if you’ve used OS X for the last few years mainly for private work. I don’t count the business stuff, because I work with special tools there and I know how to handle it, so XP works for me there.

Over the weekend, I’ve done some work on a PHP/MySQL web-app, I’m currently writing. Guess what I’ve used for this. You got it: My MacBook. Not that I couldn’t use Intype in Windows instead of TextMate on OS X and WinSCP on Windows instead of Transmit on OS X… Well, on one hand, I’ve worked for hours on Sunday in the bed. The last day of the 1 week vacation and we watched some TV series while I was working on the web-app. Right now, I’m writing this post on my MacBook, which lies in front of my PC keyboard and in front of the 2 displays.

Hmm…

Damn – if I would find a way to use the RAIDset as bootable volume for a Hackintosh based system, I think I would vote for this. But I think that’s not possible

Turning to the other site: before I’ve installed the RAIDset, I tried installing Debian, getting the graphic card to work was a challenge, but there’s Google, so I found a nice tutorial or call it HowTo. When I got this to work and also had the WindowMaker running in German instead of US, I wanted to play a video at the freshly installed VLC. No sound. Oh dear! Installing and configuring for hours and I have no sound. Of course – I had installed it from scratch and not “Desktop” in the installation setup – me fool.

To make long things short: I’d wasted 5h’s and was a little bit frustrated, so I’d inserted the Ubuntu 9.04 64bit CD that was laying on my desk and installed this instead. Hmm.. nice, but… even with the running sound, I found some bugs usung Xinerama and 2 diplays (the cursor stays at the left screen when I moved it to the left one for example, and does not fade away). I played around with Ubuntu for some more minutes or maybe 2 hours. It simply does not fit to me – as a desktop. It doesn’t worked for me really in the past and it will not work for me in the future.

Isn’t this great? I’ve removed Linux from my “possible desktop”-list.

Now there are just two systems left:
- Mac OS X as a Hackintosh installation
- Windows Vista 64bit

Not easy to choose, I see pros in both parts, but I really don’t want to have a Dual-Setup. Why not? Well, I would more switch from System to System than doing something productive. Currently, I do a enough unproductive

That’s the current status. Can’t await your comments

Ciao
Dennis

[Update]
Hi, just found this interesting YouTube video from Chris Pirillo I would like to show you, so I grabbed it and… well – here it is Have fun!

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Hey guys,

when moving to a larger and modern PC architecture, I simply had one PC with no usage – yet. So I seeked out for a good reason to put it into another 4U case and add it to my rack. My primary server (AMD64EE, 6TB RAID5 Areca storage, 4GB RAM & Debian Lenny) is pretty nice and ready for new challenges like mt-daapd, smb, afp, nfs & apache2 of course with MySQL and PHP.

My wife would like to test the new 7 RC on her notebook. She’s currently using Vista 32bit Ultimate and pretty happy with it and does not want to move the well installed version into trash. Buying a 2nd harddisk is also no option, because changing the harddisk often is annoying and unsatisfying. One option would be to use a tool like Acronis DiskDirector and split the 120GB HD into two parts to install 7 on the new one. Nice, but it could be nicer.

A few weeks ago, my colleague from Zürich told me about the VMWare ESXi server which is available for free. He said it’s pretty cool and fast. VMWare ESXi let you install a 32MB Linux on the primary disk. On top of that, of course you need a large storage if you want to add some images and a fast NIC. I thought I was prepared for this. Installing the system was pretty easy and just a thing of a few minutes.

First, I tried to install it on an AHCI volume which is attached to my ICH9 onboard controller of my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 mainboard. This works fine, doing the first boot, I got no option to change the IP of the machine. It was set to “0.0.0.0 (STATIC)”. After reading a bit through the manual, I found out, that the NIC is not supported. Ok – no problem. I’ve laying around a bunch of different NICs with different chipsets. So I installed a Realtek 8169S card – a Gigabit PCI card and booted the machine. For my surprise, the harddisk was no bootable. Pretty strange. I installed the system again with no success. The first boot worked, the NIC was not detected and I was exactly where I started before. The next card I tried was a D-Link DLG10028C Gigabit PCI card – exactly the same issues including that I had to reinstall the system again. To make it short, with my 3com Gigabit PCI card, I had the issues. Again, the system didn’t boot from the harddisk when I’d rebooted it once. First boot works like a charme, second fails.

Seems like VMWare expects something special like an Intel chipset card to work. Unfortunaly, I’ve no idea where my Intel Desktop Pro 1000MT PCI Gigabit card is, I searched on my hardware stock in the basement, without success. That was my quick try to use the VMWare ESXi and I’m not sure (more because of the boot issues than because of the NIC problems) if I’ll give it a new chance. Another big question is, if I could use OS X on this – I don’t think so.

Any ideas to solve this issue are more than welcome!

Ciao
Dennis

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Hi guys,

a few weeks ago I wrote (a bit in anger, I admit) about my concerns with the 3.0.6 Firefox on both Systems, Windows and Mac. Meanwhile, the current version has been grown to the version 3.0.8 and I must revert my opinion about my bad comments on it. I’m using it forth and it looks like Mozilla has fixed those issues.

I’d no crashes for a long time (except 1 today which was initiated by one of our tools at work (my colleagues know what I mean ).

It’s not that I just shout about anything, I also welcome fixes

Ciao
Dennis

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Hi guys,

yep – I admit, it’s a bit quiet here currently, but for a good reason.

Not only because of the often mentioned limitations by Apple, no, also because I can’t built the system that I really want based on Mac hardware are reasons to sold my Mac Pro last week.

I’m currently about to built up a new workstation, based on a PC and an Intel Quad Core CPU. I don’t tell more here, because it’s not yet created perfectly.

The name of the new system will be HADRON.

Here’s the first shot

You’re welcome to comment what you think this is.

Ciao
Dennis

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Good morning,

while I’m still in the Pre-Production of the next Videoblog, I would like to give you an update on my (private) ThinkPad X41. I admit, I played around with FreeBSD & OpenSolaris on my X41 (as shown ) and while doing this, I killed the Recovery Partition (oops!).

So I called IBM/Lenovo for Support – to get a Recovery CD for this ThinkPad, because it was bought used from eBay an came without the Recovery CD (sure, it also came without a CD/DVD drive, I bought an external USB LG DVD+-R/RW/RAM). IBM/Lenovo will send me the CD without any fees, the ThinkPad is still inside the guarantee. I also mentioned, that the “S”-Key won’t work so well from time to time – no problem – they will send me a new German labeled keyboard – also free. That’s what I would call a great service

Now I’m excited when CD & keyboard will arrive. I already replaced the keyboard of my T41 which is now owned by wife, when we had an accident with a can of RedBull… It’s no problem to replace anything in ThinkPads.

Have a nice day!

Ciao
Dennis

Update Feb, 5th @ 07:49am CET

Wow – they are really fast. UPS has delivered the new keyboard for the X41 Tablet yesterday. The installation was as easy as expected, but because the case is really different from the well knows T41, it took me about 15 minutes to install it. It’s working very nice and I’m very happy with my native German keyboard without stickers who stop you from working really smooth. I’ve every had the feeling to pop out the keys while pressing for example the left Shift key.

Unfortunaly, the batteries of my camera weren’t loaded, so I shot a photo with my iPhone, which is not very well, but shows the built in new keyboard.

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