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 visual swelling this is not one of the UPS that I had replaced the batteries on after buying from someone who had bought out a decommissioned data center.
I’m still updating other aspects of my infrastructure like NAS that’s running FreeNAS, hypervisors (testing Ovirt), rebuilding Zoneminder server, installing additional cameras for security, updating my network backbone, and building a smart environment the Open Source way. So this UPS going out was not in the plans until later. The effectiveness of the UPS wasn’t at peak so the batteries conditions explain the bad uptime for small outages it should withstand.
Here’s some after and before pictures of the UPS batteries and systems I have in place currently.
January 27, 2019
by dhoytt Comments Off on Pics From L.A.Rams 2019 Playoff Game Against the Cowboys
Some pictures from the L.A. Rams 2019 playoff win against the Dallas Cowboys! Been a Rams fan for a very long time and it’s great to have them back in California!
I also have some pics from the hotel I stayed in the Millennium Biltmore in downtown L.A.
GO RAMS beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl! I have a lot to do so it seems I will not make the Super Bowl but will be watching and yelling!
January 26, 2019
by dhoytt Comments Off on My New Favorite Kitchen Utensil
My new favorite kitchen utensil. Chops items into workable sizes a great compliment to the mandolin. A time saver for days like today where I was up all night and having a late breakfast in the afternoon.
January 14, 2019
by dhoytt Comments Off on Performed OS Updates
Performed some OS updates on the Linux web server and Windows media server I stream from and now rebooting my monitoring server that also hosts my IceCast relay which will be back up momentarily.
December 21, 2018
by dhoytt Comments Off on A Friday of Eclectic Old School and a Few new Songs
Trying to get back into the groove of things while I plow through some household chores while not feeling optimal with some old school a few new tunes mixed in ending up with a nice mellow mixture of jazz, R&B, blues, rock and pop with drops of reggae.
I updated my Windows OS music server that plays my mixes and my Linux system that runs my music relays plus a few other systems now time to be balanced and do some non-technical clean up and need to hear some tunes
Some of the artist that will be in this mix are YG, O’Jays, Ella Mai, Nickelback, Bootsy Collins, Darren Rahn, WC, Kylie Minogue so you can see it will be a very eclectic mix but I will try and make it flow.
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 new chassis, motherboard, RAM, hard drives, CPU, SAS hard drive controller, backplane, cables, FreeNAS version and layout of storage usage. This will help as my build and organization became difficult to fully utilize my full capacity for virtualization iSCSI targets and what I was using for storage of multimedia, files and backups. I will also with the larger capacity drives have less spindles spinning, more efficient power supplies and less rack space taken.
Here’s what I have so far:
Chassis: Supermicro sc825 (hot swap backplane)
Motherboard: Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F
CPU’s: matched pair INTEL Xeon E5-2690 2.90Ghz
Memory: 4 X 8GB DDR3 PC3L-10600R 1333MHz 240pin
Controller: LSI SAS 9341-8I 12GB 8PORT PC-E 3.0 SAS SATA RAID CONTROLLER
Hard Drives: HGST Ultrastar He8 | HUH728080AL5200 | 0F23268 | 8TB SAS 12Gb/s 7200 RPM 128MB Cache 3.5″
Second power supply: SuperMicro 1U 1280W Power Supply PWS-1K28P-SQ
This is the chassis I picked up locally from a posting on Craigslist which had a pretty decent Supermicro x8dte-f motherboard , LSI SAS 9211-8i, a D33025 dual GB NIC, plus a Supermicro Mini-SAS pass thru cable (CBL-0167L).
This is the front of the chassis with hot swap bays
This is what it looked like before on boot up.
This is the chassis stripped down ready for the new parts that are surrounding it
Normally it wouldn’t take very long to build this but my house is a mess as well as my work area and computer room so I will do some tidying up before starting my build. This is a build I have been putting off for a few years mainly trying to do this with my old chassis’s and trying to rebuild a more efficient room cooling component and switching those ideas around which is still on my radar along with switching away from old (Xenserver) to new virtualization (oVirt) Hypervisors and platform so stay tuned for that as well as I have those systems in house ready to build as well!
That’s it for now New build coming up plus transfer of data which is the real reason I needed to hurry with the NAS/FreeNAS build as a priority over other parts of the project.
August 21, 2018
by dhoytt Comments Off on A Quick Blast of Energetic Music Near Top of Hour
Blasting off with some strong steady beats then moving to high energy for about 2 hours or so then it’s back to the normal flow unless otherwise noted. I’m going to do some light treadmill work but you do whatever you feel with it!
A Little Master P, Eagles, Ice Cube, Rihanna, Dogg Pound, Too Short and more coming at yah!
July 22, 2018
by dhoytt Comments Off on Weekend End Weekend Sounds
How else to spend a nice double warm summer in he backyard working and playing than with a nice “Snakeice Gumbo Mix” over the Internet\Mobile networks.
