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ArmA III Online on Ubuntu 22.04 – WORKS

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Mike Pelley

After far too many years it looks like ArmA III is working on Linux. While you still have to use Steam’s Proton Expermental branch performance matches, for me at least, Windows 10. My desktop PC is an old i7-4790K, Asus … Continue reading →

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VMware ESXi to XCP-NG

Posted on July 10, 2022 by Mike Pelley

Given the pending Broadcom acquisition of VMware, I have been giving some thought about an alternative for my homelab virtualisation solution. Given Broadcom’s previous approaches to acquisitions, given I am using the free version of ESXi I have concerns whether … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 22.04 and Lenovo IdeaPad L340-15IRH (aide-mémoire)

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Mike Pelley

For some reason the default driver for the Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 wired Ethernet controller in the Lenovo IdealPad L340-15IHR will not work under Ubuntu 22.04. This happens with both a clean install and upgrading from Ubuntu 21.04/21.10. The solution is to … Continue reading →

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10GbE iSCSI – Nice and Quick

Posted on February 20, 2022 by Mike Pelley

I’ve been running iSCSI between my DL380 Gen9 VMware ESXi 7.0.3 server and Synology RS1221+ NAS at 1GbE. It works okay but as one would expect it is not all that quick. For my birthday I received a Synology E10G21-F2 … Continue reading →

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ESXi Patching – Deprecated CPUs

Posted on January 22, 2022 by Mike Pelley

Another aide-mémoire so I don’t have to search 🙂 esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient esxcli software profile update -p [PATCH_LEVEL} \ –no-hardware-warning \ -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r httpClient

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THIS Goes Here :-)

Posted on November 26, 2021 by Mike Pelley

I decided to treat myself. It was definitely not the way I wanted to treat myself as it was from my inheritance from the passing of my father in October 2020. But, after my sister and myself got the estate … Continue reading →

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What Goes Here?

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Mike Pelley

Fall is fully here. We’ve had our first snowfall. About 15-20 cm November 5th to 6th overnight. Most of it has melted – but not all. I actually put my snow tires on… Anyway, I’ve been a little bored so…

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ESXi 7.0 Mid-August Update

Posted on August 13, 2021 by Mike Pelley

Since my last post, there have been some developments. Booting from USB went from being inconsistent to being a non-starter. So, back to the old faithful hard drive boot. I have four internal 300GB SAS drives in a RAID-5 configuration. … Continue reading →

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ESXi 7.0 Upgrade to Update 2 and iSCSI

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Mike Pelley

I realized last night that in my efforts to get ESXi up and running, I had installed the original release of ESXi 7.0. Since I had taken Friday off work to take care of a few things that needed to … Continue reading →

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Importance of Backups and Wednesday Trials and Tribulations

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Mike Pelley

On Sunday, I upgraded my Synology DS216+II to DSM 7.0. I followed the DSM 7.0 reviews by Robert (Robbie) Andrews on NAS Compares and made the plunge starting with the DS216 – my backup NAS. Things went well so on … Continue reading →

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