January 29, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Switching to XCP-ng Hypervisor
I had started testing and working stoppng and going with oVirt for the past month or so as my new hardware has started coming in but I’ve now switched my attention to XCP-ng. I have gotten som much further in … Continue reading → Continue reading
January 27, 2019
by dhoytt
Comments Off on UPS Battery Update
Updated one of my Liebert GTX UPS and the extension cabinet. Did this earlier than I wanted since the UPS went into total failure as it seems all the batteries have reached end of life obviously as evidenced by the … Continue reading → Continue reading
December 20, 2018
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Getting Set for New FreeNAS Hardware Build
Getting set for new first major rebuild of my NAS system in several years. I have updated drives, replaced motherboards with same generation motherboards, up-sized drives switched chassis even but always with similar hardware. I will be swapping to a … Continue reading → Continue reading
September 30, 2017
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updates Galore Tonight
Tonight I updated the OS of my workstations, virtual servers, physical servers, streaming software SAM Broadcasting from Spacial Audio and WordPress. My I started with my workstations and then my virtual servers including my Centos 7 web server that I … Continue reading → Continue reading
May 24, 2017
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Recovered from Catastrophic XenServer failure that made me Love Linux Even More
I now know why I really love Linux right now after totally losing my XenServer configuration due to some overheating in my home data center today. I reinstalled my XenServer server reattached storage to my XenServer server and then reattached … Continue reading → Continue reading
June 27, 2016
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Rebuilt XenServer Slave
I rebuilt my XenServer slave tonight after it didn’t come back up properly last week after a power failure where I decided to ride it out on my UPS and not properly shutdown a few of my systems. The only system that … 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
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
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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