December 12, 2023
by dhoytt
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Bounced Site for XCP-ng VM Host Server Updates

I had a plethora of patches to update on my XCP-ng systems and I ended up having to restart the toolstacks on my systems. I started on my slave server restarting my “XCP-ng toolstack” which caused issues as it could … Continue reading Continue reading

February 3, 2023
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Music Streams Down Temporarily

I chose to keep the music streams down while I perform some system maintenance after some infrastructure issues I had earlier this week due to a power fluctuation. Took me a while to come up with a viable workaround while I determined the actual issues. Being under the weather with little sleep earlier this week […] Continue reading

January 8, 2023
by dhoytt
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Site Down Temporarily Due to Atmospheric River Storm

During the “Atmospheric River” storms here out west in California I lost house power where I run my systems. I have not established a geographical fall over for these sites when my home systems go down as it hasn’t been … Continue reading Continue reading

October 2, 2021
by dhoytt
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Updating Memory on Relay Streaming Server\VM

I am increasing the memory on my relay server on my XCP-Ng hypervisor I use to stream the music, and this will require a reboot. While the system reboots no one will be able to connect with the music streams though the songs will continue playing and the website will not go down. The increased […] Continue reading

July 29, 2021
by dhoytt
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Massive Garden Produce Harvest for the Day

I had a massive harvest today partially due to not picking produce everyday for the past week. So much else has been popping up I got out of my routine. I didn’t want to pick items without being ready to … Continue reading Continue reading

July 29, 2021
by dhoytt
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Updated Zoneminder/Plexmedia Server and Linux Workstation

I made some changes on my Zoneminder server that also hosts Plex media server plus extended the drives on one of my virtual Plex media servers that also is a Salt master, plus had to extend my boot partition on … Continue reading Continue reading

July 24, 2021
by dhoytt
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Fedora Workstation Crashes Possibly Resolved/ Updates of XCP-ng Packages

Well my Fedora 33 workstation desktop kept freezing and crashing whether I used KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE or Gnome desktop environments. I suspected my Nvidia Quadro K1200 drivers and wa going to really dive into that when I had time. … Continue reading Continue reading

July 22, 2021
by dhoytt
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Brief Update of Virtual Infrastructure

I performed some updates of my virtual environment that caused me to briefly take down my IceCast and ShoutCast relays and then my websites.

Once again more data here : https://dhoytt.com/mainblog/2021/07/updated-xcp-ng-from-8-1-to-8-2/.
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July 21, 2021
by dhoytt
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Updated XCP-ng from 8.1 to 8.2

I’m prepping to move the dhoytt.com web server to a different web server. So I decided to update the underlying hypervisor XCP-ng first. First I migrated all of my virtual systems off of my slave Xcp-ng system then loaded the … Continue reading Continue reading

June 14, 2021
by dhoytt
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Took Down Virtual Environment for Storage Maintenance

I had a storage alarm on my storage array start screaming today because it lost power to one of its redundant power supplies plus had slight temperature high reading on CPU #1. I found out that the power supply without … Continue reading Continue reading