Category Archives: Virtualization

I can’t really classify that the year ended off with a wimper, but for the most part it did.  What disqualifies it was the huge server problems I had today. My main ESXi server kept crashing, I tried reseating the … Continue reading →

I decided to virtualize a mail server I have a couple of weeks ago.  I think it may be a bad idea.  The datastore that mail server was on crashed and now I am going through a disaster recovery scenario. … Continue reading →

Most of my servers on the DMZ are on CentOS 6 now. I should get another one done tomorrow, but the last one will probably be done over the Thanksgiving weekend. Its about that time I am going to do … Continue reading →

Finally starting on my four post rack.  I just got the 4 posts going for now, at least they are all even. Also getting more servers migrated over to CentOS 6 (which I found out today is now at 6.5) … Continue reading →

Spent a lot of the weekend upgrading and decommissioning some of my servers. Looking good, got notes on rebuilding most of the new servers. Hoping the servers will be good in a week. Just doing pushup and situps.

Slowly getting my ideas together for how the new network at home is going to look like. I want to reduce my physical prod server count to 8, in the server room.  Currenty I have 9.  If I can get … Continue reading →

Today the entire household + mom went out to dinner at outback.  I found that they were using some sort of electronic menu system. It was a pretty  interesting concept.  But I think they should have taken it a step … Continue reading →

What a not good day, crashes everywhere. My PC sure did not like the new rebuild, it seems like mediacenter just did not want to update. Then one of my external face VM servers crashed, that was a disaster.  Tried … Continue reading →

It was fun, this year I had some coworkers join me to make it more exciting. Hope to do it again next year and keep my Alumni status. Just doing pushups and situps.