January 27, 2019
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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
December 20, 2018
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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
February 25, 2018
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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
May 24, 2017
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I now know why I really love Linux right now after totally losing my XenServer configuration due to some overheating in my home data center today. I reinstalled my XenServer server reattached storage to my XenServer server and then reattached … Continue reading
May 7, 2016
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Over the course of last night and today I upgraded my FreeNAS from 9.3 Stable to 9.10 Stable versions via the Web interface. I first verified that my backup FreeNAS disk array was free of virtual systems and updated that … Continue reading
May 30, 2015
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As I was migrating data from one NAS to another this week my XenServer pool master had a memory failure while I was away at work. Well after isolating the DIMM with the issue I also had to go in … Continue reading
May 7, 2015
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This week since Sunday evening I have been recovering my web site step by step and one of my NAS systems as well. This is why I have redundancy of systems and cloned systems. Still I really didn’t have my … Continue reading
April 1, 2015
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Well I finally updated my second NAS to FreeNAS 9.3 and it was not straightforward even though it has the exact same hardware build as the first NAS it crashed hard when I attempted the update and totally corrupted my … Continue reading
February 26, 2015
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Updates of FreeNAS & XenServer to Current Versions Plus Disk Upgrades Sounds like too much at one time but it was perfect since I moved all of my data to one NAS system. I have built duplicate NAS and Virtual … Continue reading
February 26, 2015
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I corrected a hardware error which had one of my my CPU turbo fans directed the wrong way in one of my NAS chassis. The past week I have been doing incremental work on getting my NAS and Virtual infrastructure … Continue reading