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On Thursday night, about an hour before going to bed, I decided to do an in-place upgrade to my VPS. I knew I had good backups of WordPress, the websites, etc. so I was not all that concerned. I have … Continue reading →

After years of using desktop UPSes for my server and network gear, I finally bought a rack mount, data centre grade UPS. Over the years, APC was my go-to brand. However, after two of my three UPSes had their batteries … Continue reading →

Good bye 2023… Hello 2024! I wish everyone health, wealth and happiness over 2024. I guess I’m getting a little nostalgic as I have become ye olde IT grey beard… I thought I would put up some my “server closet” … Continue reading →

Well, despite my misgivings over the price of Netgate’s rack mount for the 4100/6100 firewall series, I finally broke down and bought one. I still think it is far overpriced even with the nice blue anodised aluminium. I really wish … Continue reading →

It has been just over 17 days with my new Netgate 6100. Shipping was sort-of a day late – I guess because couriers seem to have difficulty with delivery times to the easterly part of North America. I purchased the … Continue reading →

I guess buying the not-so-cheap Alibaba-ish 1u rack router was not a totally great idea. Something failed and I think that it is network ports. All the network ports. All six of them. Anyway, I have a Netgate 6100 ordered … Continue reading →

Here’s hoping that everyone had a Merry Christmas (or whichever holiday you celebrate!) and wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2023! Since my last post back in mid-October, I had my thoughts on what my next upgrade(s) would be … Continue reading →

A couple of notes on where I am with my ESXi to Proxmox move. What I have done: I finally bit the bullet and deleted all of my iSCSI LUNs for ESXi – they were simply wasting space at this … Continue reading →

Sometimes when you get to the end of the dock, you want to jump into the water. After getting comfortable (enough) with Proxmox I took the plunge and deleted ESXi 7 from my DL380 Gen9 and moved all of my … Continue reading →

I took the plunge over the last few nights and migrated all of my VMs from ESXi to Proxmox. Outside of the previously mentioned updates to the NIC configurations, everything went fine. You will need to follow the instructions for … Continue reading →