Upgrades and vCenter HA
So I had planned on shutting down my ESXi host that lives outside of the cluster, the one that manages…
Category: Cisco UCS Servers
Posts specific to the Cisco UCS Series of servers.
Ghetto Homelab Bill of Materials (BOM) 08.22.2024
Name Manufacturer/Model Description esxi01 SuperMicro SuperServer CSE-836 Intel E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz 14c/28t, 12x16TB SAS HD in 2x raidz2 vdevs,…
Upgrades
Recently, I was looking over how much storage space I have, and more specifically, how much SSD storage do I…
vCenter Upgrades
VMware’s new Reduced Downtime Upgrade (RDU) mechanism for vCenter Servers minimizes downtime by deploying a new vCenter instance, then transferring data from the old appliance. The author shares their experience with this upgrade, noting its ease and success. They chose the Automated Switchover, had backups ready, and encountered minimal issues.
vSphere 8 Update U3 Upgrade
I am currently running ESXi 8.0u2-22380479. I typically use the Cisco Custom Image to install and update my cluster. But…
Ghetto Homelab Bill of Materials (BOM) 07.09.2024
Name Manufacturer/Model Description esxi01 SuperMicro SuperServer CSE-837 Intel E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz 14c/28t, 12x16TB SAS HD in 2x raidz2 vdevs,…
Almost there.
So, I’ve decided that I want all my servers to have their bezels, and everything be on sliding rails. Over…
Nutanix… Failure
So, there will be no Nutanix in my homelab, not for awhile. It was an utter shitshow. Let’s begin. First,…
Failure
So I’ve failed my first attempt at migrating. I was just using a single machine to test Foundation with, and…
Delayed…
So, I got my UCS-MSTOR-M2 modules, and the m.2 drives for them. To prepare for the migration, one by one…