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
November 18, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updated Web Server OS Patches and WordPress Plugins\Themes
Since I’m here monitoring some work migration processes in my computer room for the outside job that seem to be going well I decided to update my music streaming server running W2019 Datacenter version on one of my Bl460c blade … 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
September 1, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Dhoytt Entire Site Update of Software and OS
I updated to the latest WordPress version 5.5.1 and updated all of my themes and plugins then decided to update the Centos 7 Linux OS patches of this virtual system as well. I also took care of some pesky ssl … 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
June 23, 2020
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Moved C7000 Chassis into Rack
Well I finally managed to get my C7000 in the bottom of my computer rack this evening. Placing this C7000 beast in the rack was no simple chore by myself as it is awkward and weighs a couple of hundred … Continue reading → Continue reading