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After much troubleshooting, I was able to successfully establish OpenVPN “Site-to-Site” VPN tunnel between my primary OPNsense firewall and an edge Ubiquiti EdgeRouter (ERLite-3). This guide will show you how to setup the OPNsense side using the new “instances” configuration and how to setup your EdgeRouter OpenVPN profile manually. The Problem There are three main…
I recently debranded a Dell EMC VxRail E560 node that is based on the PowerEdge R640 platform. I had no desire to use vSAN in my environment because of power stability issues so I reverted to a traditional fiber channel SAN fabric being more resilient (matter of my opinion). With that being said, updates and…
My TrueNAS SCALE setup is on a HPE ML350 Gen9 with a SmartHBA H240ar (which is IT mode) and I needed to clear existing drive configuration with drives that were used in other HPE servers which prevented the drives from coming online on my server. The drives were being “masked” by the HBA thus I…
After replicating ZFS snapshots on two TrueNAS platforms, the destination dataset inherits the source dataset encryption properties resulting unlocking that dataset on the destination with the original decryption key. In my scenario, my source and destination datasets have different encryption keys. My desired outcome is to unlock all child datasets with the parent dataset with…
It’s simple to debrand an “OEM”ed variant of the Dell PowerEdge R740 or R640 based “appliance”. First you will need the default identity which can be found here: DELL PowerEdge OEMR XL Dell Branded ID Module with Windows Embedded OS Support You’re looking for the 4XHVW_14G_DBE_CustBSU_3_00.exe (local mirror) file which must be extracted first prior…
Did you just update your SAS HBA controller to the latest P20 firmware, you plug it in, try to go into the SAS BIOS and you hit an “Unrecoverable System Error (NMI) has occurred.”? If so, here’s the fix! It comes down to the BIOS that is packaged in the P20 Broadcom firmware bundle. The…
When I received a 2nd hand Dell VRTX Chassis and three PowerEdge M520 blades. One of the blades had an issue connecting to the remote iDRAC GUI after configuring it for local LAN settings. The iDRAC would get the new DHCP address but the iDRAC Web Server would not load. I was able to SSH…
The community plugins for the mainstream release of FreeNAS 11.3 has a community plugin repository. It does feature the Unifi Controller version 5. If you’re looking for the Unifi 6.x code stream you’ll need to build a jail manually. Below you will find the quick guide to manually setup a Unifi6 jail in BSD.
The Plink IPC-3035S is the perfect budget, short in depth (15″) 3U case for a FreeNAS server. My criteria was cheap, short in depth and the ability to hold as many 3.5″ drives as possible. After much debate, I purchased the IPC-3035S and was thankful that I did! The online description at 3U (3 x…
Below are the factory passwords before imaging a VxRail node. When you re-RASR the node these are the passwords that have been set apart of that factory image. Component IP Username Password Node BIOS N/A N/A emcbios ESXi DHCP root Passw0rd! vCenter / PSC Defined on build root vmware Log Insight DHCP root Passw0rd! VxRail…