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HP DL370 G5 hpacucli shows 2 drives as Predictive Failure - safe to try a rebuild 1 by 1?

I have: Openfiler SAN ML370 G5 Smart Array 6400 slot 1 Array B Logical Drive 2 is a RAID5 array of 6 x 148GB 10k hot plug drives making 680GB no spare Last Friday, the power went out, this machine was just plugged in to the wall and it went down…
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Can Tahoe-LAFS be used with FreeNAS (or OpenFiler) as a volume?

Is it possible to somehow attach a Tahoe-LAFS volume in to FreeNAS (or OpenFiler) and use it as part of a FreeNAS volume group?
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How to create new ftp users?

There's only a default ftp user assigned in openfiler ftp service - openfiler/password. I've been pulling my hairs out for trying to add users to the ftp server but without any luck. I have turned on the local LDAP server within Openfiler and add…
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Performance stats for ESXi VMs on Openfiler NFS

AFAIK VMWare utilise it's own filesystem vmfs for performance and efficiency reasons. What will that be if I host my VMs on an Openfiler server which setup as NAS using ext3 filesystem? Thanks
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Openfiler RAID 10 option not found

I'm building a NAS using Openfiler2.3 (from 32-bit ISO), first of all I want to experiment it on VM first before going out and buy the harddrives needed. I created 5 virtual drives on VMware, sda is 2GB and the rest 1GB each (sdb to sde). I left sda…
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Windows 7 can't copy file - Error 0x800700DF: The file size exceeds the limit allowed and cannot be saved

Any attempt to copy files larger than about 40 MB from a network share (a SAN running open filer / Samba) to my local machine running Windows 7 always results in the following error and the copy fails: Error 0x800700DF: The file size exceeds the…
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OpenFiler NAS Installation

I am planning on installing openfiler (first time) on a Intel Core2Duo 4GB Ram with 2 x 2TB Sata Disks. Do I need to install openfiler on a separate disk and then use 2 x 2TB as Data drives, or can I install Openfiler on the Primary (1st Disk) and…
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SAN/NAS with high availability?

I have two servers that I plan to use for storage. Each of them has a few SATA disks directly attached. I want the storage to be available even if one of the storage servers is down (preferably the clients wouldn't even notice that the fail-over,…
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When to Use Nexenta or OpenFiler or GlusterFS

I am not an expert in storage solution and I ma eager to understand the big picture when choosing Storage OS like when we choose to Nexentastor or OpenFiler or GlusterFS Those three apps are only the example since from my understanding each has its…
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Utilizing greater than 2 TB unformatted LUN in the local ESXi datastore

I'm about to create a very large file system for Windows Server and client to use (NTFS), by using Openfiler as the iSCSI initiator.[using any other free appliance will also be considered] Can OpenFiler that is deployed on my VMware ESXi as VM…
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Time to sync a 1.5TB RAID1 array?

I have setup a RAID 1 array with 2 Seagate 1.5TB SATA ST31500341AS drives for my NAS using Openfiler. The system has been up for over 17hrs and the array is still syncing, speed has dropped from 16MB/s down to a pathetic 3.5M/B over the period. Is…
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Openfiler data recovery after OS drive failed

About to set up a NAS/SAN using Openfiler with the Openfiler OS on drive1, drive2 and drive3 will be used to store data (RAID 1 setup). In case of drive1 failed, would my data stored in the RAID 1 array (drive2 + drive2) be recoverable after I…
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OpenFiler cannot delete volume group

I have deleted all the ingredients of a volume group even access options, but it still says that the Volume Group is in use. I tried to close everything including the OpenFiler itself but when I open it, it still says the volume is in use. How can I…
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Cannot login to Openfiler if the Active Directory controller is down

I am in the middle of trying to resolve a problem with Openfiler when it is linked to Active Directory. I have a Server running Openfiler 2.3 x64 and another Server running Windows Small Business Server 2003. I have integrated Openfiler with Active…
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Openfiler as KVM guest does not recognize drives

Team, I am using openfiler as a KVM guest, I have provisioned virtual drives and can see them when I login to the openfiler cli and run fdisk -l. I cannot however configure them from the openfiler GUI. I tried adding raw, I tried pvcreate, I tried…
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