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It was time to upgrade my networking equipment in my homelab. I needed two 24p 1GB switches with 10GB uplinks to facilitate moving my homelab into my crawl space and out of my office. As things are configured right now I’d easily saturate a 1GB uplink between the switches and since I don’t have any … Read more
At long last, part 3 of my journey to try and cool my T340 with out having to listen to a hair dryer. Here is part 1 and part 2 if you’re curious about what I’ve done so far. I ended up getting a 3D Printer sometime after I wrote part 2 and one of … Read more
Took the plunge today and upgraded my homelab from vSphere 6.7 (Dell custom ISO) to vSphere 7.0 (again, Dell custom ISO). My first attempted failed due to some dependency problems: The main take away from this is: QLC_bootbank_qedf_1.2.24.6-1OEM.600.0.0.2768847 QLC_bootbank_scsi-qedil_1.0.22.0-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585 I booted my node back up and enabled SSH and ran the following: esxcli software vib … Read more
In a previous post I talked about installing a Quadro P620 into my ESXi host so I could attach it to my Plex VM. This worked out great except my Veeam backups started failing. There is a limitation in VMware vSphere where you can’t take a Snapshot of a VM with a PCIe device passed … Read more
I currently run Plex in a CentOS 7 VM (on top of vSphere 6.7) with two 2vCPUs and 2GB of vRAM. When I needed to transcode video to sync it to a mobile device for a trip the process takes a while and consumes a lot of CPU on the VM. I could just add … Read more