Category Archives: Technical

Cleaning Up My Network

Posted on January 9, 2015 by larry

My network is starting to look more organized again.  Slowly but surely things are clearing up and getting settled. Still wasting too much time on it but it is getting better. One change is I got crashplan working.  Hope to … Continue reading →

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Critical VMs moved off of old server

Posted on January 4, 2015 by larry

My network is stable again, things seem all green.  All of my production VMs are now on server class hardware. I can get back to work. Ran a <15 min mile on the treadmill, not great, but showing progress.  Too … Continue reading →

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New Server Up and Running

Posted on January 3, 2015 by larry

My new ESXi server is running pretty good.  Soon all production VMs will be on server class hardware. Doing some dry runs right now, I returned the 1 processor for  the 2 processor model.  At the same time I was … Continue reading →

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Had Enough

Posted on January 2, 2015 by larry

I had enough with the server I was using.  There were enough crashes that I feel compelled to move on. I got a new server, I didn’t know a single core would not use all the ram though due to … Continue reading →

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Welcome 2015

Posted on January 1, 2015 by larry

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 … Continue reading →

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Lukewarm End of Year Finale

Posted on December 31, 2014 by larry

I can’t really classify that the year ended off with a wimper, but for the most part it did.  What disqualifies it was the huge server problems I had today. My main ESXi server kept crashing, I tried reseating the … Continue reading →

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Virtualizing Mail Server

Posted on December 30, 2014 by larry

I decided to virtualize a mail server I have a couple of weeks ago.  I think it may be a bad idea.  The datastore that mail server was on crashed and now I am going through a disaster recovery scenario. … Continue reading →

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Finally Got My Drives

Posted on December 29, 2014 by larry

Ordered three 1TB 7200RPM SATA drives from Newegg before Christmas, finally came in. I put one of them into my server and I kind of don’t need the other two since I reused another 1TB drive from a retired computer. … Continue reading →

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New PC Rocks

Posted on December 27, 2014 by larry

My New PC is running pretty darn well. Here are the specs CPU is an AMD 6 core 6350 I have not overclocked it yet. Motherboard is an MSI 970 Gaming motherboard. 16 GB of RAM and a pretty sweet … Continue reading →

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New Video System

Posted on December 26, 2014 by larry

I have my new computer system online. Still working on it, I hoped to get to post more on it today, but was not able to get it done. Had trouble with the bios but dang it is was nice … Continue reading →

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