Network
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Plex.tv
No comments on Plex.tvAs anyone who has visited before, you know that I use the Plex channel on my Rokus, as well as using the Plex app on our tablets. Something I had not considered before was the ability to access our fairly extensive media collection from outside our home. PlexTV now gives me that capability. I decided…
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Open Media Vault (OMV) on my ESXi server
Background Openfiler had been serving me reliably for about four years but had begun to seriously slow down as my media pool grew. My project of ripping all my DVDs and BluRays to the pool had slowly increased the pool size. The data was spread across three independent drives in the server (I don’t use…
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Plex Media Server (follow-up)
Roku encoding all our movies A couple weeks ago we installed a Roku with a Plex channel on it so we can access our home media archive from the bedroom TV (and our mobile devices). I have discovered over the past two weeks that none of our files can be direct-played on the Roku; they…
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Poor Man’s Wireless Access Point
A couple weeks ago I added a Roku to our bedroom TV setup. I noticed that the wireless signal was listed as merely ‘Fair’ on the Roku, and we routinely toggled between one and two bars on our Nook Color. The router was located in the basement, and the bedroom is on the second floor…
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Home Network Backups
The past two months I have been working on cleaning up the home network and streamlining my backup processes. Anyone who has accumulated PCs and hard drives over time knows that data creep can overburden your network. I used to split drives into a number of partitions to keep data segregated. Over time some partitions…
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AoE (ATA over Ethernet) benchmarks on my home network
This week I stumbled upon a technology that was new to me: AoE, or ATA over Ethernet. This protocol was being hyped as a faster, much cheaper alternative to iSCSCI and NFS. In a nutshell, AoE “is a network protocol, designed for simple, high-performance access of SATA devices over Ethernet”. I found a short description…
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Rosewill RV350 350W Power Supply and my Backup Server
The external drive I have had an external harddrive on my desk for a number of years. It is a 320GB Western Digital drive in a Rosewill case. It used to store data backups but as my storage needs grew, and I consolidated my various externals into a single backup machine, there is rarely a…
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Setting up an NFS share to receive ESXi 4.1 VM Backups
Introduction All the datastores on my ESXi box are local currently. In order for me to effectively back up virtual machines, an external datastore was needed. I chose to use Network File System (NFS). None of my virtual machines are mission critical but I do have several that would require some effort to reinstall and…
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Upgrading my home network to gigabit
This time around I wanted to briefly discuss my network upgrade from 100Mbs wired to 1000Mbs, and to direct wiring more of the machines. This was a little project from this Spring. Upgrading my home network I had been running a basic wireless G 100Mbs router for a number of years. It served its purpose…
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