Category Archives: Technical

Mother’s Day 2023

Posted on May 14, 2023 by larry

Was a nice day, kids and I got my wife and mom stuff. It was still hot though, so in the afternoon went driving around. I overdid it with the food though. See my weight below, that is the evening … Continue reading →

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Getting Hot

Posted on May 13, 2023 by larry

I been slowing down a lot, I am so hot. Got the AC running in our bedroom and the fan is blowing air into my office but it is hot and will get worse. Too lazy to work anyway, got … Continue reading →

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New ESXi Host Coming Online

Posted on May 9, 2023 by larry

Took a huge step today and renamed my old ESXi 6.7 host to something else and brought online the new ESXi host in its name (I liked the name). Slowly setting things up, at least it is online and the … Continue reading →

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DIY JBOD

Posted on May 8, 2023 by larry

Finally starting to put together my DIY JBOD container. I am still testing, but hoping in a week or so this will be live. I am still working on the ESXi host as well. Getting stronger each day. Weight: 335.6

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Cleaned up Office a bit

Posted on May 7, 2023 by larry

Tried to catch up on a bunch of little things, cleaned the office, installed wifi card into my infrastructure server, also found my new ESXi host did the minimum 3 pass for the memory check. Looks like it will come … Continue reading →

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Still Hurting Back and Tired

Posted on May 4, 2023 by larry

I think I need another day of rest. Not only is my hips and back sore, but I am tired. Need some sleep. I did get grafana charts for my ESXi hosts. Data is going in to a prometheus database. … Continue reading →

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Hard Drive Checks

Posted on May 2, 2023 by larry

I have a monitor for all my physical Linux drives in nagios. Pretty happy with it, I lost trust in smartd. Looks like I need to figure out freenas and esxi next. Went to gym and PT today. I need … Continue reading →

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Tulip Festival 2023

Posted on April 30, 2023 by larry

Wow I did not know the last time we went to tulip festival was in 2019. Overcast but glorious Couple tips, Anyway on a serious note, I been playing with grafana and noticed a failing drive. I am worried that … Continue reading →

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Python, Grafana, JSON, Nagios, and SQL

Posted on April 29, 2023 by larry

Got it all today, I figured a lot and combined all of those in the past few days. I am finally able to use some python scripts, to process JSON files, to injest events data from nagios into a SQL … Continue reading →

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Just deferring till May 1st.

Posted on April 28, 2023 by larry

I don’t see myself having free time till next month, It is wat it is. Been a busy day, work and personal stuff. I myself been waffling on things. I did get some more python today, learning a lot. Weight: … Continue reading →

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