Category Archives: New Toys

Found a great camera

Posted on November 23, 2022 by larry

Just installed the Amcrest 4K PoE Camera AI, product IP8M-T2669EW-AI. This is the best camera I have so far. Not the fact that it is my only 4K, but the view outside at night is pretty stunning. Being a 4K … Continue reading →

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Black Friday Deals

Posted on November 22, 2022 by larry

Starting to see some great deals. Got another AMD for a new machine. Not sure what I am getting, I should take some time tomorrow to plan. But looking at a nice weekend. May be spending more this year. Weight: … Continue reading →

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More Reducing Footprint

Posted on November 21, 2022 by larry

There were some 5TB drives on sale at costco. Looking to see if I can use them as backup stores. But I am also looking at reducing my footprint, maybe by moving more stuff into virtual. Right now I am … Continue reading →

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Finally Another 15k steps

Posted on November 19, 2022 by larry

This was work, and I am hurting, not sure how I am going to feel tomorrow. But I finally did 15k steps (in part of a park run 5k) and finished off RTC in the evening. Feeling sore, also got … Continue reading →

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Mass Copy VMs

Posted on November 15, 2022 by larry

Just got a 12TB hard drive, more than enough to back up some VMs I have on a couple of datastores. Wrote a script to copy the VMs from an ESXi host, I just tried and the disk seemed to … Continue reading →

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Shutting Down Another Box

Posted on November 14, 2022 by larry

Working on shutting down another physical box. Hopefully that is enough. Although I did bring up another box, I am still running a deficit. This is basically a P2V with some things disabled. I cleaned my office, for my future … Continue reading →

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Second New ESXi In Place

Posted on November 13, 2022 by larry

Got the new ESXi host in place, put a nested VM in there that can read the old drives. Looks like a total of 4 disks from the old setup. Basically I have everything in place to work on the … Continue reading →

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Another ESXi Host

Posted on October 27, 2022 by larry

So I was going to build this ESXi host but it looked like the motherboard I wanted was selling out quickly, so I picked one up. Lucky I did looks like they were selling out and today I checked they … Continue reading →

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Tried To Install XOA on Rocky

Posted on October 26, 2022 by larry

Just not meant to be got the VM installed, maybe that is enough. Or I can be that guy that figures out how to install it on rocky. I looked at the code and it is doable, but I don’t … Continue reading →

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Just Keep Moving

Posted on October 25, 2022 by larry

A lot of things getting done, just need to keep moving. Office back to a mess but not as bad, I have a server in here and am about to work on it. More posts in the near future regarding … Continue reading →

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