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Plink IPC-3035S 3U Server (ATX, MicroATX, Mini-ITX) Case Review & FreeNAS Build

Posted on December 6, 2019December 11, 2024 by tkrn

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…

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[VIDEO + SYNTAX] LSI SAS/SATA Controller Flash into IT Mode for FreeNAS/ZFS

Posted on September 23, 2019December 10, 2024 by tkrn

Below is the video tutorial on how to flash your LSI SAS Controller into IT mode for use by FreeNAS/ZFS! The video below assumes you’ve already made a bootable FreeDOS USB or ISO and have inserted the boot media into your server. If you’re not sure how to create the required ISO/USB bootable media skip…

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Dell EMC VxRail Default Password List

Posted on September 11, 2019December 11, 2024 by tkrn

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…

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Luadch systemd Service File

Posted on June 16, 2019December 11, 2024 by tkrn

Luadch which is an Advance Direct Connect (ADC) server hub software is not friendly to daemonize but with the following luadch.service file, you’re able to atleast start/stop/restart luadch with systemd.

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FreeNAS 11 “Boot Failed. EFI Misc Device” Fix (Debian)

Posted on March 15, 2019December 10, 2024 by tkrn

After a recent creation of a virtual machine using a Debian 9.5 netinstall image on the Bhyve type-2 hypervisor provided by FreeNAS 11, I kept on hitting a re-occurring error: “Boot Failed. EFI Misc Device”. After much troubleshooting, the resolution is straight forward. During the Debian install and the UEFI implementation of Bhyve causes an…

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Namecheap DDNS on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter

Posted on March 7, 2019December 11, 2024 by tkrn

Namecheap provides a great domain service with an emphesis on security and privacy. I’ve recently decided to try their premium DNS service for a variety of reasons. It was nice to see a Dynamic DNS service. With my home network focused around the Ubiquiti product line and leveraging the EdgeRouter (ER-Lite) Dynamic DNS features. It’s…

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Run PtokaX Under systemd

Posted on March 4, 2019December 11, 2024 by tkrn

Here is the example to run PtokaX Direct Connect Hub software as a daemon under systemd. Tested and used on Debian 9 Stretch. This also assumes you’re using a non-privileged user and your binary is at /usr/local/bin/PtokaX.

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Quanta LB4M Quick Configuration Examples

Posted on February 22, 2019December 11, 2024 by tkrn

The Quanta switches are not well documented nor is it very good. We will cover the basics of configuring the LB4M switch which includes management IP address, SSH, firmware and LACP port channeling. Configure a Management IP Address + Enable SSH: Upgrade LB4M Firmware: You can download the latest known Layer2 version of the firmware…

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Custom SSL Certificate Installation for UniFi Video

Posted on October 4, 2018December 11, 2024 by tkrn

This article assumes that you have already have a certificate, a corresponding private key and the certificate authority certificate. This guide will not guide you on making a CA, certificates or singing a certificate. I would recommend using a OpenSSL wrapper tool such as EasyRSA for certificate management. The following steps assumes the following: You’re…

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Deluge Client in a FreeNAS 11 iocage Jail Easy Tutorial

Posted on July 17, 2018December 11, 2024 by tkrn

FreeNAS 11 introduces a new way to manage jails, iocage. As FreeNAS transitions there is a gap for users that leveraged precreated plugins in previous versions of FreeNAS. This guide will help you create a jail in, assign users, permissions and installing Deluge the BitTorrent client in an iocage managed jail. SSH into FreeNAS as…

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