First day of the year, full of hope and promise. A fresh start.
After saying goodbye late last night and welcoming the new year, my kids decided to watch the sun rise. Two of them stayed up, I went to bed. I did wake up in time and we went out there waited in really cold weather to see the first sunrise of 2015.
After that my oldest son went on a tear removing decorations. I guess it signaled the end of the holidays.
I stayed lazy most of the day. My server was stable a few hours but I think heat or something is killing the CPU.
I will move most of the critical VMs to another servers and see if I can do without this ESXi host till a purchase a replacement.
Remarkably, I was able to backup some data with no errors on a failing machine. As I post I am doing the restore, I am hopeful. This server is not critical to my operations but it is hitting my pride because this is a signal that I would have lost a lot of data. This is a Windows server and my skills in the Windows arena have eroded. So a good restore would be a confidence boost for me.
Update: Restore was good, for the most part.
I did another half lap and half walk, was a little easier today than yesterday.