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
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
March 31, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Setup Raspberry Pi 3 Raspbian Buster to Stream to Stereo
I updated my seldom used Raspberry Pi 3 to Raspbian Buster dated 2020-02-13 which uses the 4.19 kernel to stream to my brand new Onkyo-TX-N696. After the sound went out on my Yamaha RX-V673 I needed another option and chose … Continue reading → Continue reading
July 5, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Curio Shopping Gaming Chair and C7000 BladeSystem Buying
Went looking for a corner curio almost bought it ended up with a gaming chair, HP C7000 Blade Chassis a couple of C7000 VC 10 GB modules and oh yeah an irrigation granite rock imitation valve cover! Had 4 people … Continue reading → Continue reading
June 14, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Apache not Reading php.ini Changes Configuring New Zoneminder Install
I wanted to setup some quick testing of Zoneminder on different platforms last night and started the basic configurations. Installed Fedora 30 , installed RpmFusion repository, installed mysql community database mariadb, Apache installed, install Zoneminder rpms using “dnf” etc.. Went … Continue reading → Continue reading
February 2, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Moving FreeNAS and XCP-ng into Position Migrating VM’s to XCP-ng
Well I moved my new FreeNAS along with one of my new XCP-ng hypervisors into the racks to start taking over my environment for storage and my new virtualization. I’ll detail the technical aspect later. I hooked both up to … Continue reading → Continue reading
February 25, 2018
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Doing it Big with Late Wild Saturday Night…… in My Computer Room
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 → Continue reading
August 6, 2017
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Fedora 25 to 26 Update Works Well
I just finished about and hour ago updating my Fedora 25 workstation to Fedora 26 following Fedora DNF System Upgrade and it seems to be working great! This is the second system in a couple of days I have updated … Continue reading → Continue reading
February 10, 2014
by Darryl Hoytt
Comments Off on Replaced Backplane on Second NAS
Well I finally replaced the backplane on the second NAS system I had built. The backplane had come damaged and reseller had sent me a replacement a couple of weeks ago but today is the first time I had time… Continue reading
January 13, 2014
by Darryl Hoytt
Comments Off on Second NAS Rebuild Compete
Well finished rebuilding my second NAS into a new chassis identical to the other with the same specifications as the other NAS today with a few issues. Everything went pretty much the same as the other NAS rebuild except that… Continue reading