Category Archives: Technical

Pain All Over Now

Posted on October 11, 2018 by larry

Not sure why, but my back, my shoulder, my ankle,  all over feels sore. I did go swimming today, but I am still sore. I was working downstairs most of the day, in a few weird angles, but din’t think … Continue reading →

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New ESXi host is up

Posted on October 8, 2018 by larry

Finally got the ESXi host up and running in production mode. Big one was figuring out how around a problem where the system thinks a VM was moved every time the host reboots. uuid.action = “keep” Is the parameter to … Continue reading →

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Salmon Days 2018

Posted on October 7, 2018 by larry

Today was our trip to Issaquah Salmon Days.  We missed it a few years, not a particularly strong tradition.  But  I did eat it up… and it felt weird, kind of sickening. Dinner was a little more on the low … Continue reading →

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Cracked 270

Posted on October 6, 2018 by larry

For the first time in a long time I cracked 270 lbs. I started late on my run today (afternoon about 1PM) and I think I do Saturday runs better in the morning. My time 1:12:22 for the 5K Passing, … Continue reading →

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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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