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Building a redundant iSCSI and NFS cluster with Debian - Part 3
This is part 3 of a series on building a redundant iSCSI and NFS SAN with Debian.
Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD iostat monitoring with Cacti
I’ve been looking for ages for a tool to parse the output from "iostat" on Linux, and graph it in Cacti. I found a few scripts and templates that did some of what I was looking for (disk I/O etc.), but nothing that gave me the full set of statistics such as queue length, utilisation, service time etc. I finally got round to writing my own set of templates and a data gathering script to provide this information, and it seems to work very well. So that others can benefit, I’...
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Building a redundant iSCSI and NFS cluster with Debian - Part 2
This is part 2 of a series on building a redundant iSCSI and NFS SAN with Debian.
Building a redundant iSCSI and NFS cluster with Debian - Part 1
It’s been a while now since I last updated this blog with any decent material (The Poo Truck notwithstanding, as honestly, that’s a classic) so I thought I’d dust off some of my notes on building a redundant iSCSI and NFS SAN using Debian Etch.