August 6, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Getting HP C7000 BladeSystem Started
Well after picking up my HPC7000 Blade chassis with some nice components I finally made room in my computer room and got the chassis powered up. I also picked up some barebones Bl460 G7 blade servers I can get started … Continue reading → Continue reading
July 5, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Curio Shopping Gaming Chair and C7000 BladeSystem Buying
Went looking for a corner curio almost bought it ended up with a gaming chair, HP C7000 Blade Chassis a couple of C7000 VC 10 GB modules and oh yeah an irrigation granite rock imitation valve cover! Had 4 people … Continue reading → Continue reading
May 4, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Site Network Rework
Moving site back to ASUS RT-N66U old router after going to the Linksys 3200ACM that failed on me each time I went out of town leaving my sites, smart devices, cameras and other items unreachable through that route. I worked … Continue reading → Continue reading
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