Storage - Tyler Wright

Jenkins + smartctl + Pushover: Drive Monitoring w/Push Notifications and Jenkins Job History

04 May 2020 Storage, Jenkins, Pushover, smartd, smartctl

Could you use smartd to send emails via Postfix/sendmail on your Linux box? Sure. Could you use Jenkins to trigger individual smartctl queries and then tell Pushover to send a push notification to your devices saying that you have a drive failure? Also, yes.

Replicating a Dataset with FreeNAS 11.2

07 December 2018 Storage, FreeNAS, Replication

FreeNAS makes replicating datasets or ZVOLs easy! In this example, we'll walk through how to set this up on FreeNAS 11.2 (new UI).

Expanding an LVM Across Disks

15 March 2018 LVM, CentOS, Storage

Here's how to expand an LVM across multiple disks and grow the underlying partitions.