Each Tuesday, we release a quick tech tip video that helps give our users information on various topics relating to our Storinator storage servers.This week, Mitch is showing you the various ways to find and monitor the component stats inside your Storinator. Check it out below!Be sure to watch next Tuesday, when we give you another 45Drives tech tip. Hey…
Curious about Ansible? Our lead engineer Brett Kelly, is telling us all about it in this week's Tech Tip! to find out why we love using this automation tool here at 45Drives and how to use Ansible in your infrastructure - check out the video below! Hey, Brett Kelly here with 45Drives! This week on our weekly tech tips I'm talking…
This week on our weekly video tech tips series we are talking about network bonding on CentOS and why it's useful. Check it out below to learn more. Hey guys, Mitch here with 45Drives, welcome back to our weekly tech tip video. Today I'm going to be talking about network bonding on CentOS and why it's useful. Network bonding is…
We're back this week with another tech tip! Did you know you can back your Storinator up to the cloud? Chris tells us all we need to know in this weeks 45Drives tech tip. Having a duplication of your data backed up to a cloud service provider enables you to work and collaborate from anywhere in the world. We have lots of…
Each week we release a 45Drives Tech Tip from one of our team members. These short tech tips videos cover some of the most frequently asked questions we receive from storage users, customers. fans and followers. We cover topics such as network bonding with CentOS, Storinator on the Cloud, using Ansible for your IT infrastructure, and the direct-wired architecture of…
Some people are under the impression – if it’s free, it can’t be enterprise. We’re here to tell you that’s not correct. Although Ceph is free, it carries some amazing features that validate its enterprise capabilities. In this blog, I want to focus on the Ceph dashboard and its features. What makes the dashboard so amazing?When you log into your Ceph cluster,…
How to Protect Your Data Using ZFS A question often asked in the server industry is, ‘what’s better - software RAID or hardware RAID?’ If you research this topic, a lot of the information about RAID suggests that a hardware RAID card is preferable to using a Software RAID. But I don’t agree. In my opinion is that, for most…
In this blog and the series of blogs to follow I will focus solely on Ceph Clustering. Many people are intimidated by Ceph because they find it complex – but when you understand it, that’s not the case. I want you to leave this blog with a better understanding of what Ceph is and why you should use it –…
We build some pretty awesome storage servers or at least that’s what our customers and fans say about us! We like to think it’s because our Storinators solve their storage issues by holding huge amounts of data, they’re incredibly fast and …wait for it… they are affordable! So, after hearing some feedback from our fans it was only a matter…
All of our Storinator Massive Storage Servers, as well as many other computers, have a remote management interface called Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). In this blog, I’m going to explain how to set up IPMI so that you can do certain things remotely, such as turning your server on and off, monitoring your Power Supply Unit statistics, as well as troubleshooting and…