Archive for October, 2012

Usage of an Android Tablet with Ubuntu to control the ESXi Server and Openfiler Server

Currently I’m testing my Asus Tablet with Ubuntu to steer my server environment. That’s a challenge! I use chroot to install Ubuntu on the Tablet. With the help of ssh I could now control: * Backup Time * Monitor the server health * Switch off and on (WOL) the server An Android Tablet is perfect: […]

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NAS Server with Openfiler

After a long time of review between Openfiler and FreeNAS. I decided to give Openfiler a chance, because it include WebDAV. I use Openfiler mainly as a iSCSI Device…connected to ESXi. I tested also NFS but it was 2 x slower then iSCSI. What I don’t like are the long URL like http://server/mnt/vol01/dav/share/…may be a […]

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