Topics: Ubuntu

Scope/Description This article will walk through the steps to replace a failed drive in a Ubuntu 20.04  installation through either Houston UI, or through the terminal. Prerequisites Access to Houston UI SSH access to Ubuntu 20.04 Replacement Drive Steps Through Houston UI First, we’ll have to enter the ZFS tab in Houston UI. Once here, […]

Scope/Description This guide covers how to passthrough a USB controller from your host machine to a VM on top of Houston. Prerequisites A working Ubuntu install with Houston UI A created VM through Houston UI Access to Houston UI and its CLI A CPU that supports IOMMU groups Steps Edit the host machines boot loader […]

Parallel rsync allows you to copy with multiple threads so it can work on different files at the same time. The Parameter “P” sets the number of threads ls -1 $LOCAL_DIR | xargs -I {} -P 5 -n 1 rsync -avh –progress $LOCAL_DIR/{} $RECV_DIR -P sets number of parallel threads Example: ls -1 /mnt/mylocalfiles/ | […]

How do I know one of my boot drives has failed? Open the Disk Utility and scroll down to your RAID devices. If one of them has failed you will see DEGRADED. Alternately you may open a terminal and enter the command “cat /proc/mdstat” This will list the current status of all RAIDs you have […]

The recommended utility to use with the LSI 9361 SAS card is StorCLI. StorCLI allows command line tools to manage and control LSI MegaRAID controllers. It can be downloaded at –> https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/12351376 Once the rpm package is downloaded, extract it to a directory on your Storinator. From there, changing into that director and run the […]

Scope/Description This article will walk through the process of installing Ubuntu 20.04 on redundant boot drives. Prerequisites An ubuntu 20.04LTS server iso downloaded Attach iso to server, either remotely with IPMI or physically with USB drive. Use IPMI to remotely mount install iso Write disk to USB drive Steps Starting Installation Verify server BIOS is […]

Scope/Description This article will walk you through the process of installing Rclone and connecting a remote to a cloud service such as Backblaze or Google Drive. This will allow you to move files to these cloud services. Prerequisites CentOS or Ubuntu 20.04LTS Server. (See here for instructions on how to install Ubuntu20.04LTS) Google Drive, Backblaze, […]

Scope/Description This article will show how to identify what slot on each controller translates to a physical port on LSI 9305 16i Controllers. Prerequisites System running a Linux OS Having LSI 9305-16i Controller cards installed Steps Below is a chart on how each physical port translates to a slot number in the drive bay area: […]

Scope/Description In this guide we will be running through the steps to configure OpenVPN on Ubuntu to a windows client *It is also possible to have Mac as the client through the use of other methods such as viscosity* Prerequisites Ubuntu 20.04 Installed Steps Find your WAN IP by either going to google and typing […]

Scope/Description This article will walkthrough the process of configuring a fresh install of Ubuntu20.04 LTS for Houston UI. Prerequisites Ubuntu 20.04 Server Internet access to server IPMI or KVM access to server Steps Getting the configuration script Use IPMI console or physical monitor and keyboard on server, doing this process via SSH will break the […]