Getting Hot

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 parts, just need to force myself downstairs and work on the gear.

Weight: 335.6

Posted in Technical, Training, Treadmill 30, Virtualization | Leave a comment

Getting Final Parts

Hoping by end of May I will have everything I need for my new ESXi host.

The only thing I need to get is the hard drives, but they need to be prepared.

I am going to have

  • Two 2TB SSD
  • Two 4TB SAS
  • Two 10TB SATA
  • One 10TB SAS

I should get at least the SAS and SSD in there before the weekend but need burn in the 10TB disks which will take a while maybe a week.

Weight: 335.8

Posted in Training, Weigh In | Leave a comment

Post Busy Day Effect

Yesterday during my long day I had some coffee late in the day.

I think that was a huge mistake, I could not sleep afterwards or I did not sleep right.

I hung in there in the morning but at 3PM I couldnt take it, I took a 5 hour nap.

Just got up but still sluggish. Feeling better though

Weight: 333.8

Posted in Training, Weigh In | Leave a comment

Long Brutal Day At Work

Don’t want to give too many details, but we attempted to do a cutover at 10AM today of a particular service. We were on hold will almost 1 before we figured out what to do.

Then we told to reconvene at 6:30PM but changed to 4PM which is good because we are still working on it at at 11PM.

Anyway, I am tired.

Weight: 333.6

Posted in Training, Weigh In | Leave a comment

New ESXi Host Coming Online

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 OOB stuff supports HTML5, don’t need an ancient version of java or activex.

Did a pretty decent workout with PT, then actually went to Y to hit the treadmill. Dr said I already had a decent workout and to take it easy.

Kind of tired, forced myself to stay up. Hope it pays off with a deep sleep.

Weight: 334.4

Posted in New Toys, Technical, Training, Virtualization, Weigh In | Leave a comment

DIY JBOD

Finally starting to put together my DIY JBOD container.

I am still testing, but hoping in a week or so this will be live.

I am still working on the ESXi host as well.

Getting stronger each day.

Weight: 335.6

Posted in New Toys, Technical, Training, Weigh In | Leave a comment

Cleaned up Office a bit

Tried to catch up on a bunch of little things, cleaned the office, installed wifi card into my infrastructure server, also found my new ESXi host did the minimum 3 pass for the memory check.

Looks like it will come back online soon.

Another thing I did was install smart hard drive monitoring utility on my ESXi hosts. This going to be interesting.

It is important I monitor the health of my hard drives.

Weight: 338.8

Posted in New Toys, Technical, Training, Virtualization, Weigh In | Leave a comment

Such and unproductive day

Didn’t do much today, I had an opportunity to, but too lazy.

I could at least clean my office, but decided to hang out with my wife.

So it was a good day.

Weight: 337.4

Posted in Training, Weigh In | Leave a comment

Awesome Track Meet

Sone ran what I thought would be his last race for the season.

But he PR’d his mile and 2 mile and to top it off, I think he made it to League.

He did crack 12 minute 2 mile and when he finished at 11:58 I was so happy I teared up.

Weight: 335.4

Posted in Training, Weigh In | Leave a comment

Still Hurting Back and Tired

I think I need another day of rest.

Not only is my hips and back sore, but I am tired.

Need some sleep.

I did get grafana charts for my ESXi hosts. Data is going in to a prometheus database.

Weight: 336.2

Posted in Technical, Training, Virtualization, Weigh In | Leave a comment