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
September 1, 2024
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Migrated Web Site To New Server
I was finally able to migrate my web server to another system and OS (Operating System) to better keep up with updates. I was on Fedora 34 Linux, and I moved the web server over to Rocky Linux 9.x. Fedora … Continue reading Continue reading
December 12, 2023
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Bounced Site for XCP-ng VM Host Server Updates
I had a plethora of patches to update on my XCP-ng systems and I ended up having to restart the toolstacks on my systems. I started on my slave server restarting my “XCP-ng toolstack” which caused issues as it could … Continue reading Continue reading
February 3, 2023
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Music Streams Down Temporarily
I chose to keep the music streams down while I perform some system maintenance after some infrastructure issues I had earlier this week due to a power fluctuation. Took me a while to come up with a viable workaround while I determined the actual issues. Being under the weather with little sleep earlier this week […] Continue reading
January 8, 2023
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Site Down Temporarily Due to Atmospheric River Storm
During the “Atmospheric River” storms here out west in California I lost house power where I run my systems. I have not established a geographical fall over for these sites when my home systems go down as it hasn’t been … Continue reading Continue reading
October 2, 2021
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updating Memory on Relay Streaming Server\VM
I am increasing the memory on my relay server on my XCP-Ng hypervisor I use to stream the music, and this will require a reboot. While the system reboots no one will be able to connect with the music streams though the songs will continue playing and the website will not go down. The increased […] Continue reading