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
September 27, 2020
by dhoytt
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The past weeks one of my many projects I have been completing as I get the proper materials is changing my front yard garden borders from using faux wooden posts that had started to fade and deteriorate to stone pavers. … Continue reading
August 31, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Storing Tomatoes for Future
I haven’t always taken advantage of proper storage of my garden produce. Well now I am finally using my FoodSaver and planning on using my dehydrator both purchased years ago but never used. Over the weekend I cleaned up the … Continue reading → Continue reading
August 29, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Big Garden Harvest and Nice Vegetable Casserole
Picked more vegetables from the garden then feasted on an eggplant, squash, tomatoes casserole. I also threw in a bunch of basil from the garden along with garlic, a little pepper and salt, mixed with Parmesan cheese and olive oil. … Continue reading → Continue reading
August 23, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Pizza Delight on Traeger Grill With Garden Vegetables
In looking for a different way to use my tomatoes out of my garden I decided to make fresh pizza sauce and a pizza from scratch. I used early girl tomatoes, basil and rosemary from my garden in the pizza … Continue reading → Continue reading
August 10, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Steady Progress Updating Infrastructure
The past months I have been doing a complete planned upheaval of my entire infrastructure. I’m adding more capacity to my NAS plus implementing better RAID and updating my FreeNAS. I’m moving my entire network to 10gbe. I’m moving all … Continue reading → Continue reading