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JJozzieTechOct 15 · 15 min read

The storage failure that was actually an ARP race

The Windows workload client lost its TrueNAS shares one Thursday morning. Red-X on every drive mapped to that specific server. Mappings to other storage servers on the same VLAN stayed online. Test-Ne

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JJozzieTechSep 24 · 16 min read

Five layers, one migration — what a fabric cutover exposed about storage

The plan was a network change with a storage flavour. Move a Windows workload and two TrueNAS servers off the legacy flat network and onto the new dual-TOR fabric on the workload VLAN. Three cutovers.

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Pratul's BlogAreaAug 19 · 21 min read

VMware: Building the Path Forward

I have been out of touch from VMware for a long time due to my daily works & personal commitments. Within this months, I was involved in the preparation of VMware certification: - VMware Certified Pro

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JJozzieTechAug 13 · 12 min read

Recovering a ZFS pool with a missing RAIDZ1 vdev — without wiping a single disk

The same outage that suspended the first pool also took down a second pool on the same box in a different, harder way. That's the piece the suspended-pool recovery closed by pointing at. This is that

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JJozzieTechJul 23 · 9 min read

Two TrueNAS servers, one rack — the CORE-and-SCALE split I never designed

Two TrueNAS servers. Same rack. One's on CORE, one's on SCALE. If someone asked me why, the honest answer isn't a design decision. It's a series of arrivals — one workload trigger at a time, each land

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JJozzieTechJul 9 · 9 min read

How I got a suspended TrueNAS pool back online without replacing a single disk

The rack had just come back online after an outage. Most things looked fine — VMs booted, the network reconverged, monitoring caught up on the missed intervals. Then I ran zpool status on one of the T

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Michael MiroshnichenkoJul 1 · 9 min read

Data Recovery in ZFS: Datasets, ZVOLs, Snapshots, and Virtual Disks

ZFS combines filesystem management, checksumming, snapshots, RAID-like redundancy, and block storage in a single architecture. However, hardware failures, damaged pool metadata, accidental Dataset or

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Quinton MakiMay 9 · 9 min read

I Spent a Weekend Fighting TrueNAS's eMMC Installer Bug So You Don't Have To

So I wanted to build a NAS, and I didn't want to spend Synology money on it. Their 4-bay boxes run $800+ and you're still locked into their weird proprietary ecosystem where everything works fine unti

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Jayadeep kmFeb 7 · 6 min read

My €400 Budget NAS That Replaced Google Drive and the Cloud

I wanted to setup a NAS server for quite some time. So finally I took the time to put together a NAS which is high-performing and on a tight budget. Let me walk you through the hardware and software components for the NAS and how I set them up. TL;DR...

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Yeshwant DasariJan 5 · 3 min read

LabSecure Control Plane: Building Observability and Container Management for My Home Lab

🏗 Introduction In my previous post — The Pi Guardian: Defending My Home Network with Nginx and Automation — I explained how I used two Raspberry Pis, Nginx, and Cloudflare to secure and automate incoming traffic to my self-hosted applications. That ...

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The storage failure that was actually an ARP race

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Recovering a ZFS pool with a missing RAIDZ1 vdev — without wiping a single disk

Two TrueNAS servers, one rack — the CORE-and-SCALE split I never designed

How I got a suspended TrueNAS pool back online without replacing a single disk

Data Recovery in ZFS: Datasets, ZVOLs, Snapshots, and Virtual Disks

I Spent a Weekend Fighting TrueNAS's eMMC Installer Bug So You Don't Have To

My €400 Budget NAS That Replaced Google Drive and the Cloud

LabSecure Control Plane: Building Observability and Container Management for My Home Lab