February 21, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Newly Built Systems Come Back Quickly After Power Outage
After a power outage just a few moments ago I think this is the fastest one of my virtual and NAS environments has ever recovered after booting up! No curruption to speak of and XCP-ng and FreeNAS recovered effortlessly! Hopefully … Continue reading → Continue reading
February 16, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on New Virtual Environment Almost Set
My new XCP-ng environment is just about completely set I just need one more 8tb SAS drive with the same geometry to put into one of the pools on my FreeNAS server. One of the prior 8tb drives was a … Continue reading → Continue reading
February 16, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on New Virtual Environment Almost Set
My new XCP-ng environment is just about completely set I just need one more 8tb SAS drive with the same geometry to put into one of the pools on my FreeNAS server. One of the prior 8tb drives was a … Continue reading → Continue reading
January 29, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Switching to XCP-ng Hypervisor
I had started testing and working stoppng and going with oVirt for the past month or so as my new hardware has started coming in but I’ve now switched my attention to XCP-ng. I have gotten som much further in … Continue reading → Continue reading
January 27, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on UPS Battery Update
Updated one of my Liebert GTX UPS and the extension cabinet. Did this earlier than I wanted since the UPS went into total failure as it seems all the batteries have reached end of life obviously as evidenced by the … Continue reading → Continue reading
December 20, 2018
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Getting Set for New FreeNAS Hardware Build
Getting set for new first major rebuild of my NAS system in several years. I have updated drives, replaced motherboards with same generation motherboards, up-sized drives switched chassis even but always with similar hardware. I will be swapping to a … Continue reading → Continue reading
February 25, 2018
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Doing it Big with Late Wild Saturday Night…… in My Computer Room
That’s right a wild Saturday night in my computer room revolving around my secondary FreeNAS server\disk array. I have had so many issues updating this server to FreeNAS 11.1 I decided tonight I would make sure I came to a … Continue reading → Continue reading
January 22, 2018
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updated WordPress After Troubleshooting Site Going Down
Well my site went down after I made some local network changes on my switches to get better local throughput on my switches to take advantage of my new Gigabit internet speed that was looking slow on my workstations in … Continue reading → Continue reading
December 6, 2017
by dhoytt
Comments Off on More Updates
A plethora of updates this weekend and tonight. Over the weekend I updated my Windows 10 Workstation, laptop and gaming system. I actually had to roll back the gaming system due to some flickering on my LG 60PB6650 which I’ll … Continue reading → Continue reading
November 14, 2017
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Web Server and WordPress Successfully Updated
Well the Centos 7 Web Server and WordPress blog software and plugins are now at the latest patch levels!
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