June 27, 2016
by dhoytt
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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 had issues was this XenServer slave and since it wasn’t running my important VM’s at the time I decided to perform some more important non-computer related projects until tonight. Really the only thing that prompted me tonight to do this was I wanted to install Fedora 24 Server on a VM and I recalled I needed to get this XenServer hosts up and running.

Well the thing was it didn’t recognize and of my NIC’s built into my motherboard though they were enabled and showing properly in the bios. After several restarts and insuring cabling was correct I ended up having to remove power completely and power the system up, reset the bios and then reconfigure my bios settings to get the onboard NIC’s recognized finally.

Things were so corrupted with XenServer that even after that the onboard NIC’s weren’t recognized so I decided to reinstall since the VM’s are all on my NAS that I run FreeNAS on anyway and not local to the XenServer host. Had I needed I could have always run the VM’s on the master XenServer host.

Anyhow I reinstalled, XenServer 6.5 and tried to add it to the existing pool but it wouldn’t let me join the pool until I was patched up properly plus I still needed to destroy the old XnServer remnant name.

I tried destroying the old XenServer name out of the shared pool but couldn’t since the VM’s that were running on that hosts were still in a quasi running state. I found this article “http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126382” and followed that to shutdown the VM’s:

xe host-list
xe vm-list resident-on=<UUID of XenServer host I wish to take out of pool>
xe vm-reset-powerstate uuid=<UUID of VM’s still on powered on state on above host>
Went to XenCenter -> Right-Clicked-> Destroy -> Remove failed XenServer host

In XenCenter I then went to Tools -> Install Update -> Showed patch that was installed in Master but not on newly installed system and just followed the GUI instructions and it pushed the patch from the Master to the slave and I was then able to join the freshly installed XenServer into the shared pool. I then configured the storage networks, placed the XenServer slave into maintenance mode and turned on multipathing. Restarted my other VM’s and they are now running on the XenServer slave and I’m back up and fully running in redundant mode again!

June 7, 2016
by dhoytt
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Done Updating Music Server

Music server is updated plus installed a new utility to watch a few utilities when i’m away or unavailable.

June 7, 2016
by dhoytt
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Streaming Server Updates

Performing some Streaming Server updates and will be back up and kicking again after the updates are complete.

June 4, 2016
by dhoytt
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Hot Saturday Sounds

Scorching hot Saturday music set starting in 1,2,3 well it’s already begun!

This Saturday mix consists of some of the following hot artists past and present: Prince, KC & the Sunshine Band, T-Nutty, Rihanna, Breaking Benjamin, Gwen Stefani, The Supremes, Twenty88, Queen and well you get the idea!

See Madonna and Stevie Wonder honor Prince with ‘Purple Rain’ duet at the BBMAs

May 30, 2016
by dhoytt
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Another Healthy Home Garden Based Meal

The garden is starting to produce more than just the dominant swiss chard now, with some beans, chives, rosemary plus the swiss chard paired with medium rare trip tip that pulled apart with fingers. Sautéed the swiss char with the rosemary, basil, chives with a touch of brown sugar since I didn’t have any oyster sauce and some garlic in my wok then my friend she came up with the idea to grill the green beans on grill with garlic, salt and olive oil. All turned out excellent didn’t get finishing shots since the wine was flowing and started making plates and eating right away.

May 14, 2016
by dhoytt
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2016 Vegetable Garden Happenings

Well the 2016 garden is off to a very nice start. Already I have been feasting on the swiss chards that are replants from last year. As the swiss chard replants from last year go to seed they will be replaced with already steadily growing new swiss chard I planted this year and I will replace the older swiss chard with some peas I have growing already in pots.

This yeah I have swiss chard, collard greens, several type/colors bell peppers, different basil varieties, several tomato varieties, sweet red onions, yellows onions, chives, habanera peppers, jalapeño peppers, bush and gourmet beans, mesclun salad mix which consists different lettuce and green leafy vegetables for salads, mustard greens, stevia, cucumbers, squash, peas and beets. I’m sure I forgot some items but that’s most of what is planted.

I was especially attentive this year to getting the weeds out of the garden early this year and properly fertilizing the garden and it seems to be paying off. My first squash to pick should even be ready this week already with cucumbers, tomatoes, basil, stevia and beans, not far behind.

These are pictures that show what it’s all about, meals and meal prep of items from garden:

May 14, 2016
by dhoytt
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Saturday Morning Updates Word Press Web Music Server Work Stations

Updated the WordPress themes to the latest today in coordination with also updating my separate music streaming server and web server Operating Systems. I think some more tinkering is forthcoming but for now my Windows music streaming server, Linux Web Server and WordPress which resides on my Linux Web Server are updated along with my Windows 10 and Centos 7 workstations.

Configuring A High Availability Apache Cluster With Pacemaker On CentOS 7

May 14, 2016
by dhoytt
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Update Music Stream Server Rebooting

Updating the Operating System of the music streaming server and will be back up and streaming music in a bit!

May 7, 2016
by dhoytt
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Upgraded to new FreeNAS Stable 9.10

Over the course of last night and today I upgraded my FreeNAS from 9.3 Stable to 9.10 Stable versions via the Web interface.

I first verified that my backup FreeNAS disk array was free of virtual systems and updated that system.

Actually since I keep my backup disk array off due to power usage concerns (costs a lot) I first had to reintroduce the iSCSI storage to the Xenserver environment by “forgetting” and then reading as new storage and “reattaching” to the luns.
I then migrated my Xenserver virtual systems disks to the newly updated FreeNAS system.
After migrating the VM’s off my main disk array I then updated that version of FreeNAS to 9.10
Now all my virtual systems are being migrated back to my main storage disk array and I will be able to turn off my backup storage array for energy savings until my next planned upgrade coming in the next few months!