"Because with sufficient power applied, even elephants can fly!"

2026

• The Revolving Cluster: A Shared-Nothing Homelab Design (January 31, 2026)
• The Lenovo P3 Ultra is a small (3.9L) and powerful workstation with a few caveats (January 09, 2026)

Posts migrated from vcojot.blogspot.com.

2024

• Using Sonatype Nexus as a generic proxy registry to deploy OpenShift (December 28, 2024)
• High-End LSI controllers and the effect of large caches on I/O (April 07, 2024)
• An Nvidia RTX A4000 GPU in the Dell PowerEdge T640 without the GPU kit (February 17, 2024)
• My Ultimate Cooling config for the Dell PowerEdge T140 (No Soldering required) (January 05, 2024)
• 3 Decades of OpenWindows (January 02, 2024)

2023

• Silencing Ubiquiti USW-Pro Aggregation Switch Fan Noise: A How-To Guide (March 05, 2023)

2022

• Veritas Cluster Server Cluster Manager (VRTScscm) 7.4.1 on Linux (January 04, 2022)
• Takeaways from 6 years of running Red Hat Satellite with ZFS (ZoL) on RHEL (January 02, 2022)

2021

• The PowerEdge T630 is a fine occasional 4K gaming rig (July 25, 2021)
• The Dell T140 as a frankenstation : Compact, Silent and Powerful enough. (July 23, 2021)

2020

• Providing Directory services to your family without losing your roots. (October 01, 2020)
• Silencing the Ubiquiti US-16XG 10G switch (September 09, 2020)
• Some Tips about using a Dell PowerEdge T640 as a Workstation (or Frankenstation) (August 29, 2020)
• Putting the fun back in OpenStack CI/CD pipelines with RHOSP and Gitlab (January 28, 2020)

2019

• The case of the missing filler (Dell PowerEdge Rack to Tower conversion) (December 20, 2019)
• A new addition to the FrankenStation family, the Dell PowerEdge T630 runs RHEL (and Windows 10 Pro for DCS World) just fine! (November 25, 2019)
• An NVidia GTX 1050 Ti in that PowerEdge T440 without the GPU Kit. (March 18, 2019)
• Some Tips about PowerEdge as Workstation (Revisited for 14th Gen servers) (March 08, 2019)

2017

• LVM2 bootdisk encapsulation on RHEL7/Centos7 (March 22, 2017)

2016

• Some Tips about running a Dell PowerEdge Tower Server as your workstation (November 15, 2016)
• Of Samsung SSD's, LSI HBA's and SSD firmwares. (July 28, 2016)
• Monitoring for OpenStack - A practical HOWTO with Sensu (June 17, 2016)
• Storage Foundation SFCFSHA 7.1/InfoScale Enterprise 7.1 and Flexible Shared Storage (June 08, 2016)
• megaclisas-status, now with CacheCade and Nested RAID! (March 09, 2016)

2015

• Workaround for vmrun under VMWare Workstation 12 (November 20, 2015)
• Introducing.. lseth/lsnet (November 10, 2015)
• VMWare Worksation 12 on Fedora Core 23/24 (fc23 and fc24) (November 05, 2015)
• LSI MegaRaid HBA's, overheating and one ugly hack (July 12, 2015)
• That RAID10 Mystery.. (May 11, 2015)
• The little server that could (April 02, 2015)
• Some Solaris Single-Threaded numbers (Benchmarks?) (April 02, 2015)
• Storage Foundation HA 6.1 and Flexible Shared Storage (January 15, 2015)
• LSI MegaRAID and megaclisas-status (January 15, 2015)

2012

• Migrating from Solaris/Sparc to Solaris/x86 or RHEL? Use ZFS! (December 14, 2012)
• We must preserve the past for the criticism of the future (August 13, 2012)
• VxFS 6.0 and compression (a real must have). (March 28, 2012)
• VxFS 6.0 comes with de-dupe! (March 09, 2012)