Category Archives: Virtualization

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Summer days are here temps are easily in the 90s. Been miserable at home. Gym was better, at least it had AC. Got some VMs off of my old ESXi host. All the non-RPM based VMs are off. Weight: 344.4

Was a busy day, meeting after meeting hit me today. Got a lot done and am exhausted. Spending the evening migrating some VMs from my old ESXi host to a new one. Weight: 344.0

Kind of halted the migration of VMs, today I resumed the migration. First order of business is to cold migrate R8 and R9 boxes. Simultaneously I am building R9 “shells” to prepare to move the VMs over. Weight: 342.4