Midus Renaissance

Thursday, February 25, 2010

There's alot of confusion for this.

Should NOT use net time commands.

On the old domain controller, run the following at command prompt

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /reliable:no /update

net stop w32time && net start w32time

On the new domain controller, run the following at command prompt

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:time.windows.com /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update

net stop w32time && net start w32time

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It's faster than FreeNAS, FreeNAS iSCSI target is a file mounted on a SMB share (additional layer)
Does not have the limitations of StarWind free

Objectives:

Need to deploy an opensource or free solution for 3rd tier iSCSI SAN for use with vSphere (VMware, ESX, ESXi) storage.

Woah!

"...I was advised by many people who had lots of Linux experience to never use LVM, as I would have trouble transferring files from an old slave drive to a new install on a new master drive..." - borgward (I'm wonder why?)

Candidates

Openfiler (Redhat, Fedora Core)
FreeNAS (FreeBSD)
Nexenta (OpenSolaris, Ubuntu hybrid?); Home, download
StarWind (Windows iSCSI target plug-in, feature-limited free edition available)

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