October 10, 2020
by dhoytt
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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
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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
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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

August 31, 2020
by dhoytt
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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
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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
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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
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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

August 2, 2020
by dhoytt
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Huge Squash Many Tomatoes Today’s Garden Harvest

I ended up with huge squash picking my garden today along with a huge amount of tomatoes, yellow pear, cherry husky, early girl and beef eater. I also got eggplant, Serranto peppers, Havasu peppers, raspberries as well as gathering my … Continue reading Continue reading