July 24, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Time For New Router ASUS RT-N66U Power Switch Failure
I have been having sporadic Internet connectivity issues lately and today noticed this happened several times Finally about 30 minutes ago I get texted from monitoring I have on my site notifying me my site is down, I discover I … Continue reading → Continue reading
July 11, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Moved Site to New System and OS
Well I moved my website over to a new OS Centos 7 from Fedora 21. Centos seems to be handing my enviornment better with the XFS filesystem than Fedora has been with the ext4 filesystem. I am also still making … Continue reading → Continue reading
May 30, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Work On Site This past Week
As I was migrating data from one NAS to another this week my XenServer pool master had a memory failure while I was away at work. Well after isolating the DIMM with the issue I also had to go in … Continue reading → Continue reading
October 18, 2014
by Darryl Hoytt
Comments Off on Exciting Friday Night Updating NAS and Virtual Environment
It has been a while since I updated my NAS systems which run FreeNAS and my XenServer hosts which have my virtual hosts that I share to the world via my blogs and websites. My music server due to the… Continue reading
March 13, 2014
by Darryl Hoytt
Comments Off on Updated NAS Systems Again
Well added more functionality to both NAS systems. Yesterday I added the second Dell Perc H310 to one NAS system plus added two more 2 TB SAS 6 GB/s drives. Tonight after a very long session working on some clusters… 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
January 2, 2014
by Darryl Hoytt
Comments Off on Rebuild of One NAS System Initial Complete and Moved FreeNAS Configuration
Well in an effort to save space and go up to 6gbs enviornment totally eventually I rebuilt my physical NAS system. I went from having a: 4U rack mount case that I booted FreeNAS off an Adaptec 39160 SCSI… Continue reading
December 14, 2013
by Darryl Hoytt
Comments Off on Rebuilt Nagios Server, Updated XenServer, Corrected HW Issue on FreeNAS Node, Reconfigured Router Tonight
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December 2, 2013
by Darryl Hoytt
Comments Off on Virtualization of Old Systems Websites & New Media Server
Well this weekend I made great progress I built a test media server, virtualized a few old physical web servers, as well as my old but powerful XP desktop with 5 SCSI drives I just retired. I have been… Continue reading