Category Archives: Technical

Problems With New Controller

Posted on October 2, 2018 by larry

I think I should have flashed my card differently, the new ESXi host does not properly recognize it. May flash it back to stock. Took up a lot of time, should have been done by now. Ran Cedar River 2 … Continue reading →

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New Controller Card Works

Posted on October 1, 2018 by larry

Went through the huge effort get the new card in there yet the problem I was having, where I reboot would cause VMs to forget themselves still exists. I think it will work better though.  Going to try and add … Continue reading →

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Flashing Perc Card

Posted on September 30, 2018 by larry

Got a Dell Perc card for my ESXi host. But I needed to flash it, I thought I needed FreeDOS, but with UEFI, I just needed to copy the flash bits to a USB drive and it worked. Updated: SAS … Continue reading →

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Weird Network Problem

Posted on September 28, 2018 by larry

Not sure what the heck happened at home today. Seems like one of the wifi routers in my complicated network went down disconnecting some devices. After my gym workout, I spent most of the evening getting a router up as … Continue reading →

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Final Piece to NAS

Posted on September 27, 2018 by larry

Maybe a few more tiny things, but I got all the stuff I need to go in to production for my NAS.  The last piece I got was the UPS.  I purchased the CyberPower 1325VA which is the model LX1325GU. … Continue reading →

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Network Discovery

Posted on September 21, 2018 by larry

Finally found a way to use nmap to generate a list of hostnames, ips, and mac addresses on my network. Used nmap -sn -oN discoveryscan.log 192.168.1.0/24 Then Used some awk grep and sed magic to get the data I want. … Continue reading →

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Internet Back Up

Posted on August 31, 2018 by larry

What a pain, Comcast has this app that told me 3:00 (I don’t have a screen shot of that) Then as 3PM came and went, they changed it, this time I did get a screen shot Then as 3:10 closed … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2018 Homebound

Posted on August 30, 2018 by larry

Finally home, now I get to deal with the problems at home. One huge one is the Internet being down.  Comcast sucks sometimes. I wanted to post more regarding VMworld, but been busy with trying to get Internet back up. … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2018 Day 2

Posted on August 27, 2018 by larry

Much better day at vmworld. I actually got my bag and stuff on time.  A wake up time of 7AM to make it there in time (even with getting my badge and bag) for the keynote. Looks like there is … Continue reading →

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Supposed to be a quiet day

Posted on August 10, 2018 by larry

Most of the day was quiet, in fact this post is supposed to be about another topic. But something strange happened at work at about 10:00PM causing the Web site to get hit by a lot of people trying to … Continue reading →

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