Tony

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  • DNS problems, email notifications not being sent

    I had a working Open Media Vault system with notifications going out and then it stopped. OMV runs on Debian. In the log I started seeing: The actual error was: postfix/error[1443]: 1D96741676: to=<joe.blogs@domain.com>, relay=none, delay=175894, delays=175853/41/0/0.24, dsn=4.4.3, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=send.xtra.co.nz type=MX: Host not… read more…

  • Public facing web server on SonicWALL VLAN

     I have a SonicWALL TZ 205w sitting behind my fibre connection with my web server running on an ESXi server connected to the SonicWALL via a VLAN to isolate it from my LAN. This has proved to be a bit of a mission because I don’t have a modem between the SonicWALL and the ONT,… read more…

    Public facing web server on SonicWALL VLAN

  • ESX VLAN to SonicWALL DMZ

    I have an ESX server on my LAN and I want to connect it to the DMZ on my SonicWALL using a VLAN as the ESX server only has one network adaptor. The SonicWALL is a TZ 205w which is connected to Fibre. This in itself was a challenge and is described in the post… read more…

    ESX VLAN to SonicWALL DMZ

  • Connect SonicWALL TZ205w to Fibre ONT

    We recently got fibre to our house using Spark as the ISP and of course Chorus as the installer. The fibre terminates in the house at the ONT, optical network terminal. The ONT  has an Ethernet RJ-45 socket that you connect to the Spark supplied Huawei HG659b modem. At the time I had a SonicWALL TZ170… read more…

    Connect SonicWALL TZ205w to Fibre ONT

  • Cloning an ESXi USB boot flash drive

    I have a couple of ESXi servers at home that I boot from USB keys – see the post Running ESXi 5.1 from a USB key. The problem is that using a USB imaging tool doesn’t seem to work. When I boot up ESX I get an error: BANK5: invalid configuration. BANK6: not a VMware boot… read more…

    Cloning an ESXi USB boot flash drive

  • Enabling SSH access to Debian live USB

    This is just a short post describing how you can USB boot from a Debian Live USB key and from this enable SSH access to the box. I do this often and it can be quite handy. First create the USB key using the instructions in the post Create a Debian Live USB flash drive.… read more…

    Enabling SSH access to Debian live USB

  • OMV.data.Store.ImplicitModel-ext-1057-7 error adding a RAID disk

    I have been trying to add a single mirrored disk to Open Media Vault and been getting: In my case the new disk was created using a Debian live USB disk. I think this was the problem. So I booted to OMV and looked at the mdadm config file in Debian: # mdadm.conf # #… read more…

  • Create a single mirror disk for a RAID1 array

    I have a problem, I have a 3TB drive which has all my data on it but I need to move to a new RAID solution using Open Media Vault, OMV. I want to set up a mirrored, RAID1, 3TB array so will need two 3TB drives. I plan to use my current 3TB drive… read more…

  • Setting up notifications for Open Media Vault

    My reason for setting up a NAS server was to have a simple and reliable storage mechanism on my network. Choosing a NAS server and setting up a mirrored drive gives me this, but it loses an awful of its appeal if a drive fails and I don’t know about it. If notifications don’t work… read more…

  • Setting up a Windows shared drive

    This post is about setting up a Windows share for OMV. This should be a straight forward exercise but there are a few gotchas that mean it doesn’t always work the first time. This post describes the process pretty much from the start because as with other things if you don’t do things correctly right… read more…