March 27, 2021
by dhoytt
Comments Off on The Correct Heat Sink for Bl460c Gen8 Blade Server Finally
I have had this ongoing saga of not being able to find the correct heat sink for CPU#2 for my BL460c gen 8 blade server for a while. The original reseller used an integrator that came in at a lower … Continue reading Continue reading
March 21, 2021
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Boat Cleaned Going to New Home
Got email notice my boat indoor storage place was closing in 30 days mid-afternoon yesterday , right before getting into some projects around the house so I went and found a new place for the boat within the next couple … Continue reading Continue reading
March 14, 2021
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Big Cable Management Start
Did a major start on getting some cable management done in the home computer room. I have been wanting to start some cable management in the computer room for a very long time but wanted to get the hardware situation … Continue reading Continue reading
February 15, 2021
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Gritty HPE C7000 Blade Enclosure Update
I updated my HPE C7000 blade enclosures Virtual control modules to VC-Enet 10/24. I then updated the firmware to 4.85 so that it wouldn’t rely on flash in the browsers which as of this year is blocked for security reasons … Continue reading Continue reading
January 30, 2021
by dhoytt
Comments Off on New Workstations Notes
Well I built 2 new powerful workstation, one using Windows 10 Pro Workstation and the other Fedora 33 Workstation but of course with all types of server packages. The Windows workstation I’m using Asrock X299 WS/IPMI and the Linux Fedora … Continue reading Continue reading
October 31, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Maintenance to XCP-Ng Hypervisors Updated Zoneminder Plus Installed Patches Updated WordPress
My BL460c gen8 blade servers have been really noisy with the fans kicking up a lot more lately as I have put more of a load on them so tried a setting that required a reboot in the bios setting … Continue reading Continue reading
October 18, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Taking Sites Down to Restructure Systems In Computer Room
Taking the entire site down to restructure my systems and UPS physically in my computer room. This means every systems and site is being taken down and all power cables re-routed.
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October 10, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Replicating Data Over Again Using FreeNAS
Well I ended up having to re-pushing my data after the initial push failed and I then re-pushed using a different replication job of just the one dataset I needed for that volume. Appears the second replication it dumped the … Continue reading Continue reading
October 6, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on New Drive Reconfiguration FreeNAS Volume
I got my new 16 TB SAS drive in yesterday a then started to create another vdev to extend my current raid z volume then decided to go with creating one large vdev and volume out of my 16tb drives … Continue reading Continue reading
October 4, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Virtual Environment Expansion
I have my new HPE bl460c gen8 blade systems now in my existing virtual hypervisor XCP-Ng pool with my Dell Poweredge R710’s systems temporarily while I assess them. I need to keep them running see how they handle the loads, … Continue reading Continue reading