1 year of hiatus?
Wow it's been a year since I've post an entry in this blog. Who would have though maintaining blog entries could be kinda hard. Well anyways I'm currently in my exam period. So the following entries would probably come after my summer break has started. More electronic projects to come/document.
~Cheers
D Day for Brutus Servers
Well today is the day where the server gets two new drives. Dismounted from the rack and looks like its gonna take the whole day.
New drives in and ready to go.
Back to the rack. Powered up so far so good. So after all goes smoothly, The drives are initiated via Megaraid storage manager. Then comes the part where I have to define a new VM datastore and migrate the Game Server OS over.
There we go! Much better performance.
~Cheers
~Cheers
Fibers and SFPs
It finally arrived in the mail yesterday. I bought an LC to LC MM fiber off ebay as getting one locally from SLS is a major ripped off.
My collection of optical trancivers (right) loopback key, IBM 1000SX SFP, Agilent 1000SX SFP, Cisco 1000SX SFP and Cisco 1000SX GBIC
My Dell PC2724 switch seems to work with both Agilent and Cisco SFPs
Guess I'll have to test it some other time.~Cheers
HDD Testing Done
The test is performed on an intel system and PERC 5/i raid card.
Well I strapped on a second power supply due to insufficient power on the primary one.
~Cheers
~Cheers
Brutus Servers Down For Upgrade
Well in case you're wondering where'd the servers gone, I down them early as they seems to not show up on the masteh list. Probly i suspect my firewall went wonka after 'a certain someone' jacked in a loopback lan cable into the switch.
Anyways server upgrade will still proceed as scheduled on Monday.
I'll be popping in a new hard drives since 5k rpm green drives are pathetic for hosting muliple game instances.
I'm doing the drives evaluation tomorrow. So its either a 15k rpm SAS drive or 2x 10k rpm SAS drives in raid 0. That would probably reduce map load time significantly and make you people happy.
Todo list:
Sunday
Test and evaluate hard drives
1 x 15K SAS
2/3/4 x 10K SAS
Monday
- Reboot both firewall and switch
- Update motherboard bios
- Security update on host OS
- Install new drive/s
- Create new VM datastore
- Migrate Guest OS over
- Test
- Murphy's law "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong"
- ?????
- Profit
That's that, be sure to check back for updates and progress
~Cheers
Anyways server upgrade will still proceed as scheduled on Monday.
I'll be popping in a new hard drives since 5k rpm green drives are pathetic for hosting muliple game instances.
I'm doing the drives evaluation tomorrow. So its either a 15k rpm SAS drive or 2x 10k rpm SAS drives in raid 0. That would probably reduce map load time significantly and make you people happy.
Todo list:
Sunday
Test and evaluate hard drives
1 x 15K SAS
2/3/4 x 10K SAS
Monday
- Reboot both firewall and switch
- Update motherboard bios
- Security update on host OS
- Install new drive/s
- Create new VM datastore
- Migrate Guest OS over
- Test
- Murphy's law "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong"
- ?????
- Profit
That's that, be sure to check back for updates and progress
~Cheers
