Category Archives: Virtualization

Hardest Servers First

Posted on August 25, 2023 by larry

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 →

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Smoke In Air

Posted on August 20, 2023 by larry

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 →

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Upgrading to Rocky 9

Posted on August 18, 2023 by larry

I got a few more machines to upgrade to Rocky 9. Focused on getting machines off of my old ESXi box so I can power it off. On that ESXi host I have 8 machines left and the are all … Continue reading →

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Hot, Sticky, and Miserable

Posted on August 14, 2023 by larry

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

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Meeting after meeting

Posted on August 9, 2023 by larry

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

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Migration To R9 Continues

Posted on August 8, 2023 by larry

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

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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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