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Upgrades and vCenter HA

darrinSeptember 5, 2024 235 Views

So I had planned on shutting down my ESXi host that lives outside of the cluster, the one that manages…

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Ghetto Homelab Bill of Materials (BOM) 08.22.2024

darrinAugust 22, 2024August 26, 2024 201 Views

Name Manufacturer/Model Description esxi01 SuperMicro SuperServer CSE-836 Intel E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz 14c/28t, 12x16TB SAS HD in 2x raidz2 vdevs,…

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Upgrades

darrinAugust 22, 2024 197 Views

Recently, I was looking over how much storage space I have, and more specifically, how much SSD storage do I…

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vCenter Upgrades

darrinAugust 16, 2024 154 Views

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.

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vSphere 8 Update U3 Upgrade

darrinAugust 15, 2024 226 Views

I am currently running ESXi 8.0u2-22380479. I typically use the Cisco Custom Image to install and update my cluster. But…

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Ghetto Homelab Bill of Materials (BOM) 07.09.2024

darrinJuly 9, 2024July 9, 2024 259 Views

Name Manufacturer/Model Description esxi01 SuperMicro SuperServer CSE-837 Intel E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz 14c/28t, 12x16TB SAS HD in 2x raidz2 vdevs,…

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Almost there.

darrinJuly 9, 2024 192 Views

So, I’ve decided that I want all my servers to have their bezels, and everything be on sliding rails. Over…

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Nutanix… Failure

darrinJuly 6, 2024July 6, 2024 173 Views

So, there will be no Nutanix in my homelab, not for awhile. It was an utter shitshow. Let’s begin. First,…

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Failure

darrinJune 18, 2024June 22, 2024 135 Views

So I’ve failed my first attempt at migrating. I was just using a single machine to test Foundation with, and…

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Delayed…

darrinJune 12, 2024 201 Views

So, I got my UCS-MSTOR-M2 modules, and the m.2 drives for them. To prepare for the migration, one by one…

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