Category Archives: Technical

Mass Copy VMs

Posted on November 15, 2022 by larry

Just got a 12TB hard drive, more than enough to back up some VMs I have on a couple of datastores. Wrote a script to copy the VMs from an ESXi host, I just tried and the disk seemed to … Continue reading →

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Shutting Down Another Box

Posted on November 14, 2022 by larry

Working on shutting down another physical box. Hopefully that is enough. Although I did bring up another box, I am still running a deficit. This is basically a P2V with some things disabled. I cleaned my office, for my future … Continue reading →

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Second New ESXi In Place

Posted on November 13, 2022 by larry

Got the new ESXi host in place, put a nested VM in there that can read the old drives. Looks like a total of 4 disks from the old setup. Basically I have everything in place to work on the … Continue reading →

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Transcoding A Lot of Files

Posted on November 9, 2022 by larry

Getting better at bash scripting, I want to take advantage of new things a learned in scripting. Anyway, found some handy ffmpeg commands to compress plex TV records to mkv ones for better storage. Taking advantage of my GTC1660 with … Continue reading →

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Crazy Day At Pasco

Posted on November 5, 2022 by larry

Not sure if ever want to attempt that again, on the way to state XC the pass started to snow, and on the way back got caught up in two road closures of I90 and almost got hit by an … Continue reading →

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Wind Storm Again

Posted on November 4, 2022 by larry

Another wind storm, that time of the year, one of my UPS was just dying, I need to start recording the times to replace the battery. Luckily I had a smaller one available to use while the battery was incoming. … Continue reading →

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Hard Drive Failure

Posted on November 3, 2022 by larry

Lost a drive that had data that I did not have a full backup. It sucks but the data was not critical. There were couple lessons learned, first off the root cause, I think a fan died, I have not … Continue reading →

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Saying Goodbye To A Companion

Posted on November 2, 2022 by larry

I had this smaller iphone for six year now. I didn’t use it much, only when I was on call. But getting bigger better faster, when I get it I will post. Weight: 315.4

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Going To Bed Early

Posted on October 28, 2022 by larry

Got a big day tomorrow, did hills today and was pretty good. Also got a lot of cool stuff done today, upgraded my work vsphere to 7.0, did a bit of work on my network. Finished the night off watching … Continue reading →

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Another ESXi Host

Posted on October 27, 2022 by larry

So I was going to build this ESXi host but it looked like the motherboard I wanted was selling out quickly, so I picked one up. Lucky I did looks like they were selling out and today I checked they … Continue reading →

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