When Dandelion Meets the Trash — Explains How to Build Your Own Private Cloud

Recently, I have seen a lot of rumors rumbling NAS, and there are also very good solutions. I have developed a set of my own NAS solutions by combining the existing hand-held equipment and the needs to be met. Share it with everyone

The choice of the first chapter "cloud" platform:

That is the operating system. The master who likes to use Linux naturally has nothing to say. After the drum knocked on Black Group, it still has some problems in terms of compatibility and fever. From time to time there are bugs and eventually the black-and-white route is inevitable. The Windows platform can have Windows Home Server 2011 (although the follow-up development has been stopped, but the lifetime can be up to 2025), Windows Server 2012 Essentials and Windows Server 2016 Essentials that have been released in the past few days.

In the middle ground, the landlord originally wanted to select Windows Server 2012 Essentials as the main system of the NAS. Later, he thought that he might install a virtual machine and assisted BlackShot, and then he upgraded a grade to use Windows Server. The 2012 R2 Lite can support virtual machines and daily backups, as well as Hyper-V on Hyperion (Hyper-V is Microsoft's hypervisor virtualization technology that enables desktop virtualization).

Chapter II Configuration of a bucket of "Jiangshan":

On the hardware of the NAS host, please refer to Aunt Zhang’s many original articles. Some of them are really old things and some of them are new platforms. The two situations are not suitable for the building.

First of all, I used to store photos and videos. Of course, the video here is also some American dramas, Korean dramas, etc. The pursuit of 4k and 1080p is not very urgent. Instead, the emphasis is on the plot and dialogue, and sometimes it is directly on the mobile phone. Looked at, so, capacity does not need to be large, a lot of hard drives, SOSO, hard drive to choose the current cost-effective 3T hard drive, more than 500 dollars can hold a lot of American drama it is a data disk. There is a ready-made Colorful 128G SSD on the system disk. The MLC solution is adopted. The reading speed is acceptable. It is a good choice to install a system. After all, the official warranty is three years. The ~~ memory is a pair of memory 4g2 memory that was bought last time. The heat sink is large enough and the passive cooling effect is good.

The choice of the CPU is indeed difficult, and it is necessary to have a certain degree of energy efficiency and high performance. Finally, I chose to spell RP and bought a Costa Rica version of the G3258. Although it was a dual-core, it was fast enough, and the single price was only 300 pieces.

The motherboard, the ASRock B85 itx, is also a medium and low-end NAS motherboard that has been recommended by all NAS gods. G3258 can be installed automatically overclocking ah ~ Radiator is some of the previous silk Bo lower pressure radiator HP-425, in Jingdong and Taobao can not be found, and now are 625, upgraded to a 6 heat pipe and LED fan But the price is still the same as before ~~ crying, bought early ~~.

The host is a trash can chassis, after all, is a small ah, and does not occupy the place, can hold a set of ITX system. When installed, I was afraid that the equipment could not be installed. However, all kinds of demolition - equipment - and then demolition - reloading, and finally reinstalled. One said, 8.5 kg!

My NAS hardware configuration list:

Chapter 3 Dandelion Router

Then is the newly bought dandelion X5 router, open a box, Show a few maps, after the floor to tell us about this thing in the end there is a magical place.

Open the box, and the blue inner box is set off with the black body of the router!

Other accessories include power supplies, footrests, warranty cards, and product specifications. Are very basic attachments Later, the floor found that if there is no manual, then do not understand routers, this router seems simple, in fact, have to read the instructions carefully to play.

There is only one indicator in front. Multi-purpose integrated light.

LAN and WAN interfaces are on the back, a power supply interface and reset button. The network interface is equipped with a working indicator. After the Internet connection, you can see the working status.

Chapter 4 The Road to Consolidation

Open your own private cloud

First, the local settings are made through the user name and password provided in the manual.

After logging in to the local management, set up the Internet connection, that is, the account and password of the broadband connection. After filling in, you can go online.

At this time, the indicator light is green from the red state to the blue state, and you can go online.

Local management can view the machine's network information.

Network connection settings can also be made.

After connecting the wide area network, you can see the settings interface of the online dandelion router.

In the intelligent networking option, you can fully understand the significance of dandelion.

After successfully registering on the website, the Dandelion route also gave away the peanut shell dynamic domain name and sunflower remote boot, making the self-built network more privatized and also increasing confidentiality. Suddenly there is a sense of being a landlord.

The dandelion router that accesses the network can be managed remotely through the management interface.

After introducing how to use dandelion routing, combine Server 2012 and say SMB sharing.

The first kind: SMB sharing - fast

The simplest way, similar to simple sharing, and similar to the public directory, is that everyone has full control.

Second: SMB Sharing - Advanced

In this case, you can set the corresponding file type and quota limits. Here, let's add the file type and quota limits.

file type:

File Type This feature is new to Windows Server 2012. Its main purpose is to automatically or manually classify files based on different file types.

Quota limit: In Windows Server 2003, the quota limit can only be for disks, while the quota limit for Windows Server 2012 R2 can be for both folders and disks.

Third: SMB Share - Application

In fact, this function seems to me to be developed specifically for Hyper-V. If you use a file server as storage, then all Hyper-V virtual machine systems are stored on the file server, and then a load and redundancy are made. It is also a good choice. This may not seem to be related to the private cloud at present, but in the research and development field, cloud computing has become more and more popular. It is also a trend. The mobile phone is equipped with a terminal and then goes through cloud computing. It can also be said that this is no longer a simple cloud. Storage, but a diverse, private cloud that incorporates cloud computing. However, if you start here, some of you would like to take over the Lord~first to skip ~~

Fourth: NFS Share - Fast, NFS Share - Advanced

Mainly used for the shared use of Linux server, here we do not make specific instructions. (I have really seen the company's team of programmers and colleagues, at home, all kinds of remote control company's office computer, most of the night can also turn on the cloud computing, a bunch of computers at midnight to growl in the operation)

Once you have created a shared directory, you can access it remotely!

The PC side can use a remote connection or a dandelion client.

The mobile terminal can also use Dandelion's APP to perform file viewing operations.

However, at present, it is still considered that the mobile phone APP is weak and its function is not very comprehensive.

to sum up:

Basically, this is the way to form your own private cloud. The process is very difficult. After all, it is the first time to play this thing, and there are many things to follow in the follow-up. For example: the joint application with smart TV; the cloud's management line download and share ~~ This is a start. After gaining more experience, it will continue to be shared with the value. The building, as a beginner, is not careful enough, and I hope everyone will come up and discuss together.


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