Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving
I suggest reading this: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+a+small+NAS+using+OI I'm running double parity RAIDZ for /export and a 4 way mirror for the root pool. Have Fun! Reg --- On Thu, 4/11/13, Carl Brewer wrote: From: Carl Brewer Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 7:44 PM G'day, I'm going to be building a new home/small office server soon, with ~24GB or so of RAM and hopefully 6-8 TB of ZFS mirrored storage, as well as a couple of 1TB HDDs for a ZFS root partition. It's going to run Virtualbox to virtualise a Linux (CentOS 5) and Windows SBS 2003 server on it, thus the heaps of RAM etc. I will also be using it as a native CIFS fileserver (and maybe whatever Apple uses natively for file serving these days? It's been quite a while since I did any Mac networking, who remembers Localtalk? ) - eventually going to shut down the SBS 2003 server and run most of its jobs. The SVS server is just a fileserver and exchange, I don't need AD or any of that garbage and we're going to ditch exchange ASAP! If it proves to be stable enough I'm also going to virtualise a NetBSD box on it (historical baggage) and bring my local hardware count down to 1 physical server. I know there's been discussion of large block sizes with modern SATA HDD's (I was planning on using off the shelf Seagate Barracuda desktop drives, they're cheap and fast enough for this box). Am I likely to run into any problems with modern drives with OI's current beta release? I'm running oi_151a7 and hoping to keep doing so unless there's a better illumos based distribution for my purpose? It's not really going to need much in the way of a GUI, but I do like having an X11 desktop occasionally to work with the VB console. Suggestions? Advice? thank you Carl ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Audio Broadcasting Suggestions Request
I seem to finally be making progress with the last major hurdle before bringing our OI servers online, and now the Archbishop has decided he wants me to take a break from this and lend a hand in another project. He wants to start broadcasting live audio streams of our services for our parishioners who are scattered all over the world. He doesn't want video (at this time) because he doesn't want to turn the church into a television studio. (And the others would certainly do that!) The others here have pretty decent skills in video and audio work, but they're a bit weak in the other technical areas this is probably going to entail. We also have very good audio (and video) equipment here to support this. The big requirements are: 1) We need to be able to support as least 30 - 50 concurrent connections (users / listeners). 2) We need to be able to limit who has access to listen to the services. So, we either need a login system of some sort, or we need to use some kind of video conferencing software, where we can see who is actually there, but not actually broadcast video. IP Access logs or limitation capability, or something else along these lines, would be very helpful. If necessary, I have the programming skills to write our own login system, and perhaps use DNS forwarding and masking to hide the destination address, but I do not really have the expertise or time to write the streaming part. 3) The user access to the streams needs to either be through a web browser, or any client software needs to be Windows *and* Mac compatible. 4) Any server level type of software needs to be able to run on OpenIndiana. This is completely out of my realm. I don't have much of a clue where to even start. Googling "Audio broadcasting" brought up a bunch of internet radio type stuff. I was also thinking of something along the lines of Ekiga (http://www.ekiga.org/), or some other kind of internet conferencing software. So, I thought I'd just ask if any of you have ever done anything like this, and might have any suggestions? Or even some other mailing lists that might be more suitable for this topic. Oh, and while a free, open-source solution would be nice, I think the Archbishop would even be willing to spend money on this. Probably substantial amounts, even. We have a lot of parishioners who want this, and some of them have money, and would be willing to spend it on this. So, if you have any paid service or consultants that you could recommend, that would be very welcome, and appreciated, too. We'd all greatly appreciate any help or suggestions any of you might be able to share. Thank you very much. Peter, hieromonk Dormition Skete Monastery Website: http://www.DormitionSkete.org Convent Website: http://www.HolyApostlesConvent.org Catechetical Website: http://www.TrueOrthodoxy.Info Polemical Website: http://www.TrueOrthodoxy.org Synod Website: http://www.GocAmerica.org Archbishop Gregory's Life Story: http://www.ArchbishopGregory.Info Video Website: http://www.OrthodoxVideos.org ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Audio Broadcasting Suggestions Request
Hi, I seem to finally be making progress with the last major hurdle before > bringing our OI servers online, and now the Archbishop has decided he wants > me to take a break from this and lend a hand in another project. > > He wants to start broadcasting live audio streams of our services for our > parishioners who are scattered all over the world. He doesn't want video > (at this time) because he doesn't want to turn the church into a television > studio. (And the others would certainly do that!) ... > 4) Any server level type of software needs to be able to run on > OpenIndiana. > I've seen any number of audio streaming demos using Node.JS. Which is going to work just fine on OpenIndiana. However, if this were me I would just outsource this. It's a perfect example of a commodity that is unlikely to be your core competency. Something like http://wavestreaming.com/ for example, I'm sure there are others. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
