Category Archives: Virtualization

Time To Get Serious

Posted on May 28, 2023 by larry

Wow weighed in pretty high today, I suspect tomorrow I will be heavy again too. I need to focus on losing weight. But this weekend I committed to getting a list of things done. One of them was to clean … Continue reading →

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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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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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Nagios, Grafana and Mysql

Posted on April 18, 2023 by larry

This morning I had an aha moment. I was trying to figure out how to get Grafana to display the nagios status. Then it dawned on me, I should just use an event handler and write things to a database … Continue reading →

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Upgraded More Machines

Posted on April 12, 2023 by larry

I have a upgraded a bunch more machines. I have half C7 machines and half non C7. There are a lot of VMs, I really should reduce the count. Hitting more this week. Weight: 330.6

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Right Knee A Problem

Posted on April 8, 2023 by larry

It was my left knee, now it is my right knee. I am getting a feel of life with good knees. I can do stuff which is great. On the tech side, I am starting to upgrade my machines to … Continue reading →

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Inadvertent Upgrade

Posted on April 3, 2023 by larry

I was messing around with installing pihole today on Rocky 9. I figured it out with my prior notes. At the same time I decided to upgrade my pihole on CentOS 7. It failed miserably. It wanted some glibc that … Continue reading →

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