Category Archives: Virtualization

First Post On New Server

Posted on September 10, 2023 by larry

Moved mostly everything to new server. This is my first post from that server. I can actually shut off the old web server and I should be functional. Just 1 more CentOS 7 VM then I move to physical and … Continue reading →

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Website Back To Normal

Posted on September 9, 2023 by larry

Mental note to self, don’t make changes close to midnight if you didn’t post your blog. Although I got it done and was able to post before midnight, there was a lot of meat missing from my post. Actually rebuild … Continue reading →

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New Habits

Posted on September 6, 2023 by larry

Need to adopt so new habits, First one, if something is down on the network and is needed, but some sort of monitor that alerts on it, normally nagios, but it can be something else like home assistant. Second one, … Continue reading →

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Three Day Weekend Needed

Posted on September 3, 2023 by larry

Just got 2 days of a three day weekend out of the way, I am happy that I also got Monday off. Getting my lab rolling, tomorrow hopefully more breakthroughs. But I am having a problem with MATE and guacamole, … Continue reading →

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Exciting Times

Posted on August 31, 2023 by larry

Had a long day of work last night, ending at 3AM, but I got a lot of stuff done. At home, ansible is doing me right. My son is ready to start XC, 1 more week till his first meet. … Continue reading →

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Lab Rebuild

Posted on August 30, 2023 by larry

This evening I decided to rebuild/reconstitute the lab. Now that I retired an ESXi host, I think I got space to continue with the lab. Got all these little things to set up. Patching, nagios, guacamole, proxies etc. Weight: 347.0

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CentOS 7 Going Away

Posted on August 29, 2023 by larry

Still feeling sluggish but had a normal work day, just powered through. I miscounted my VM counts, there was a dupe, but also wondered why a VM I had was still needed, I just decommed it. So back down to … Continue reading →

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Wasting Time Cause Of Time

Posted on August 27, 2023 by larry

What a disaster last night. I was cleaning up some stuff and I had a VM that was also acting as a datastore. So when these go down, it causes havok. So last night I had to reboot an ESXi … Continue reading →

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Shutdown Dell Server

Posted on August 26, 2023 by larry

Got me a little over 4 years of service 4 years is not too bad. Server is actually shut off. All of the C7 VMs on it were converted to R9 So it is running. Officially got 10 production machines … Continue reading →

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Hardest Servers First

Posted on August 25, 2023 by larry

Wanted to migrate the harder servers out of the way first. The most important server is done. Now moving other servers in order of importance. There are 6 VMs left, it is reasonable to do 3 a day, after this … Continue reading →

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