Category Archives: Virtualization

When Stupidity and Willpower Collide

Well, my run of 12k steps ended today, no way I can make it. I am truly injured, I at least got my floors. But I did not make my steps. I convinced some of my family members to take … Continue reading

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New ESXi Up

And doing production loads, but found an issue with the 10G switch. Have the issue regarding incompatible GBIC’s. Works with the DAC, but I need the GBIC to work. Also last day of Wa State Fair, sent youngest in there … Continue reading

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New Host Built Migration Begins

With my new host up, I am beginning to migrate VMs off of the new ones to see if it will recognize them on the new system. If not I will have to do this the hard way. Anyway, want … Continue reading

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Finally slowed down

After 8 days of trying to prevent data loss and disaster, I finally can sit back and relax and finish building my ESXi host. I have enough RAM, but I am adding more, but I am going to move some … Continue reading

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Didn’t Slow Down Today

Still a whole bunch of work today, but I was able to get some personal stuff done, but not enough hours in the day. My new ESXi host is almost complete. Got it booting on Rocky as well. Kind of … Continue reading

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Been Busy Forgot To Post

Yeah I been so busy forgot to post yesterday, its rare that I forget, so just finish posting yesterdays post. Anyway got a lot accomplished today, the SAN it work is supposed to be stable, woke up and we were … Continue reading

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WA State Fair 2022

Wow that wasn’t that fun. Sure enjoyed food, kept the tradition alive, man there were a lot of downside. First off, the lines, there were lines to get parking, the lines to get inside, lines to get food, lines to … Continue reading

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Dell H200 not working

Got a weird problem, when I am running ESXi 7 my Dell H200 does not pass through. So it is going to set me back a bit. Hoping to find something that will work. Weight: 313.0

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New Systems

New laptop for son, new server for me. So a lot to work on. Finished my son’s laptop today, Windows 11 Pro, so kind of new to me. But my HP X840 came in yesterday, started building it today. It … Continue reading

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Power Consumption

Looking at reducing my power usage, especially my servers. Unfortunately a server I rely on a lot consumes 200watts. That server costs me over $200 per year. My desktop with its new RTX3080 consumes 200 watts, but that can be … Continue reading

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