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VMWare ESX Storage Upgrade solutions

Current situation: 2xESX 3.5 (Soon to be vSphere) 2xESXi 3.5 All four servers are running standalone. The two ESX servers are beginning to run out of hard drive space but still doing very well on the processing and memory fronts. We're not running…
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drobo pro speed?

I'm looking at picking up a fully loaded drobo pro this year (last quater). Has anyone actually found any benchmarks on it yet? I've seen many people saying the speed of the current drobo mk2 is less than steller. I'd be probably looking to use it…
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Drobo-like linux file server - how do I do it?

I've been pondering for a long time about how I can set up a server which operates much like the Drobo storage thing. The reasons I don't actually want a drobo is because I've heard scare stories, plus I'd like to do this on the cheap. So ideally…
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Files on ext4 on Drobo with corrupt, zero-ed out blocks

I have a 2TB ext4 file system (Ubuntu running Linux kernel 2.6.31-22-server x86_64). This file system is the second drive on a Drobo box plugged in via USB. We've not had problems on the first drive (Drobo limits drive size to 2TB due to some OS…
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Replace FileServer with DROBO

We have a Linux FC4 (old!) running with two mirrored sata drives (200gb each). This old setup has been working for years with Samba. The server is an IBM Netfinity that in my opinion, it uses too much power. Since it only does Fileserving, we'd like…
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Windows 2008 R2 Shares Disappear on Reboot

Every time I reboot our Windows 2008 R2 server, shared folders are no longer shared. After every reboot, I need to RDC to the server, right click each folder I wish to share, then hit "Properties" and "Sharing." The desired share name is always…
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Drobo Thin Provisioning: What happens when you run out of space?

I'm thinking about getting a Drobo S to add some storage on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box. The Drobo offers thin provisioning. While I will only have 4.5TB of space initially, I'd like to use thin provisioning to create a 16TB LUN. If the OS sees…
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Sporadic Write Speed on USB Drobo Array

I have a 2nd Gen Drobo (the 4-bay with USB 2 and FireWire 800) which is hooked up to a computer that acts as an office file server. Lately I've noticed that it was seeming a bit slow, so I ran a bunch of tests to see if where the problem was. I…
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tar error to a Drobo FS: Cannot close: Input/output error, Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

We've been running this tar backup from a Fedora 25 workstation to a Drobo FS for a couple of years and in the past few weeks it's starting to error out with the following but does seem to complete: /bin/tar: /mypath/etc-new.tgz: Cannot…
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Any RAID-like system for using discs of various sizes?

Drobo did it somehow - i.e. they can mix and match multiple sizes of discs, as long as 2 biggest discs have the same size. Is there any solution for this type of storage, free, for Linux?
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XenServer move VM Failed

We currently are running our XenServer virtual machines off of an over extended Drobo unit and wanted to migrate a particular 600+GB VM off of the Drobo onto a newer Drobo, so I attached a storage repository on the new Drobo and used the XenServer…
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XenServer 6.2 Read Only and Slow Disk I/O

I virtualized a datacenter a few months back and we have a pool of 3 HP DL360 G5 servers, each with 32GB of Memory and dual Intel Xeons. Recently we have been experiencing 2 issues, the first of which is the disk read speed has become extremely…
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Losing filesystem features moving from Fedora to XP 64-bit, DroboPro doesn't support linux :(

I recently purchased a DroboPro to replace my 2TB RAID 5 array. The new device has 8 SATA bays, and I've filled 5 of them with 1TB drives, giving me about 4TB of available space. The old RAID server ran Fedora 4, but the DroboPro doesn't seem to…
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rsync from Drobo to Drobo

I'd like to run a backup rsync job from one Drobo to another. I've managed to get rsync and the ssh tools installed so that I can ssh from my desktop into backup@drobo1.local and then ssh into backup@drobo2.local from drobo1.local What I need to…
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Why does postfix mail server throw error 502 when testing email from Drobo Dashboard?

I'm configuring a Drobo on a Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server file server and am trying to configure email notifications. Unfortunately, when doing so, both our primary mail server and the local Mail service on the server throw a "502 5.5.2 Error:…
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