Category Archives: Technical

Three Day Weekend Needed

Posted on September 3, 2023 by larry

Just got 2 days of a three day weekend out of the way, I am happy that I also got Monday off. Getting my lab rolling, tomorrow hopefully more breakthroughs. But I am having a problem with MATE and guacamole, … Continue reading →

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Been Tired All Day

Posted on September 2, 2023 by larry

One of those times sleep catches up with you. I been so tired today, napped couple of times. I did get a lot done, figured a way to reimage the nodes on the lab. Create a new guacamole server, also … Continue reading →

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LDAP Server On Rocky 9

Posted on September 1, 2023 by larry

Getting good with ansible. But finding I need to get an LDAP server outside my the secure area of my network. For others that connect to the lab. Now I need to figure out how to authenticate with guacamole. Weight: … Continue reading →

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Exciting Times

Posted on August 31, 2023 by larry

Had a long day of work last night, ending at 3AM, but I got a lot of stuff done. At home, ansible is doing me right. My son is ready to start XC, 1 more week till his first meet. … Continue reading →

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Lab Rebuild

Posted on August 30, 2023 by larry

This evening I decided to rebuild/reconstitute the lab. Now that I retired an ESXi host, I think I got space to continue with the lab. Got all these little things to set up. Patching, nagios, guacamole, proxies etc. Weight: 347.0

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CentOS 7 Going Away

Posted on August 29, 2023 by larry

Still feeling sluggish but had a normal work day, just powered through. I miscounted my VM counts, there was a dupe, but also wondered why a VM I had was still needed, I just decommed it. So back down to … Continue reading →

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Wasting Time Cause Of Time

Posted on August 27, 2023 by larry

What a disaster last night. I was cleaning up some stuff and I had a VM that was also acting as a datastore. So when these go down, it causes havok. So last night I had to reboot an ESXi … Continue reading →

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Shutdown Dell Server

Posted on August 26, 2023 by larry

Got me a little over 4 years of service 4 years is not too bad. Server is actually shut off. All of the C7 VMs on it were converted to R9 So it is running. Officially got 10 production machines … Continue reading →

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Hardest Servers First

Posted on August 25, 2023 by larry

Wanted to migrate the harder servers out of the way first. The most important server is done. Now moving other servers in order of importance. There are 6 VMs left, it is reasonable to do 3 a day, after this … Continue reading →

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Smoke In Air

Posted on August 20, 2023 by larry

Air quality is bad, It is making my breathing bad. On the IT front, I updated my build processes to Rocky 9.2 for both the server and MATE desktop builds. So things are on hold a bit. But I did … Continue reading →

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