First day of the year, full of hope and promise. \u00a0A fresh start.<\/p>\n
After saying goodbye late last night and welcoming the new year, \u00a0my kids decided to watch the sun rise. \u00a0Two of them stayed up, I went to bed. \u00a0I did wake up in time and we went out there waited in really cold weather to see the first sunrise of 2015.<\/p>\n
After that my oldest son went on a tear removing decorations. \u00a0I guess it signaled the end of the holidays.<\/p>\n
I stayed lazy most of the day. \u00a0My server was stable a few hours but I think heat or something is killing the CPU.<\/p>\n
I will move most of the critical VMs to another servers and see if I can do without this ESXi host till a purchase a replacement.<\/p>\n
Remarkably, I was able to backup some data with no errors on a failing machine. \u00a0 As I post I am doing the restore, I am hopeful. This server is not critical to my operations but it is hitting my pride because this is a signal that I would have lost a lot of data. \u00a0This is a Windows server and my skills in the Windows arena have eroded. \u00a0So a good restore would be a confidence boost for me.<\/p>\n
Update: Restore was good, for the most part.<\/p>\n
I did another half lap and half walk, was a little easier today than yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First day of the year, full of hope and promise. \u00a0A fresh start. After saying goodbye late last night and welcoming the new year, \u00a0my kids decided to watch the sun rise. \u00a0Two of them stayed up, I went to … Continue reading