July 25, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Passed Through USB Sound Device XCP-ng
I passed through a USB sound device via the XCP-ng UI on version 8.3. Went fairly well but sounded a bit scratchy when I used the device in VM in my Broadcasting application Sam Broadcaster. I’ll try using it again but so far having to go with my silent output for my sound pipeline in […] Continue reading
July 23, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Both XCP-ng 8.3 Servers in Rack
Doesn’t look pretty but I now have both!of the XCP-ng servers I built, fine tuned and stress tested in my rack. I’ll post specs later. Now my C7000 is retired I just have to clean it up and find it … Continue reading Continue reading
July 18, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on One XCP-ng Virtualization Server in Rack
One of my custom built XCP-ng virtualization servers is finally in my rack, connected and working. I will soon have my hallway space mostly back which is where they have been running serving up my virtual environment for the past … Continue reading Continue reading
July 18, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on One XCP-ng Virtualization Server in Rack
One of my custom built XCP-ng virtualization servers is finally in my rack, connected and working. I will soon have my hallway space mostly back which is where they have been running serving up my virtual environment for the past … Continue reading Continue reading
July 18, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on One XCP-ng Virtualization Server in Rack
One of my custom built XCP-ng virtualization servers is finally in my rack, connected and working. I will soon have my hallway space mostly back which is where they have been running serving up my virtual environment for the past … Continue reading Continue reading
July 12, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Moved C7000 Blade Server From Rack
After performing a successful clone using Clonezilla of my physical BL460 Gen7 blade that was my W2019 Data Center server with Sam Broadcaster that served as my music server, it was time to move my C7000 blade chassis out of … Continue reading Continue reading
June 28, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Switched to New Music Server Updated Relay Server
I moved to my new virtual machine on my new XCP-ng virtualization servers I built and I also took my music relay server to the latest version of OS. I am moved off of my c7000 blade server with this update and can shut down this final blade that had my music, playlist, database etc […] Continue reading
October 4, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Server UPS’ Crashed but Back Up
One of my UPS went out (has a flaky controller) and then overloaded my other UPS’ for my servers and took down my NAS storage I use iSCSI with, the ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blade servers I run the virtual environment … Continue reading Continue reading
July 30, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Music Server MAintenance
Cloning the music server with Clonezilla so it will be down temporarily. This is my first time doing a clone in this fashion not sending the image to a storage disk and then uploading that image. I’m attempting to go from the server directly to the disk on a XCP-ng. I may go the old […] Continue reading
January 27, 2025
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updated to Latest Broadcast Software other Items
Updated to the latest version of Sam Broadcaster yestreday and today did some cleanup re-adding the countdown script on the website. I updated the Windows OS W2019 that SAM runs on. I then decided to update both of my Fedora Linux 41 relay servers the primary and backup. I noticed the primary VM I run […] Continue reading