Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Grr. Car has to sit 4 days waiting for a part. Is it time to part with Old Stiggy?

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I haven’t written about my home ESXi server in a while, and remember, this is a good thing. Mostly it just works and I get along. The previous hardware combination if you remember was the following: ESXi supermicro pizza box. Internal SATA non-raid disk for the VMs. Adaptec 3805 card passed through to a CentOS [...]

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Gee Dave, why have you not been posting so often? Well, I’ve been changing jobs. The specifics of that are another post, but mainly right now I’m fussing about with commute options now that my drive is not only longer, but goes down one of the central traffic corridors of the bay area: 101 Northbound [...]

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I just had a pleasant evening after a rough day. Work stuff – very boring. Come home and get my hands in the dishwater as the kids finish reading books with mom. “Dada! Someone very small wants you!” comes from upstairs. The three year old is there, one-piece jammies on, hearing aids away, bottom lip [...]

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“What, Dave, more?” you ask. Yes, I’m afraid so. I’m afraid so. Trying to keep it short this time. All builds have a server, 4+ disk RAID5, and offer flexible storage expansion to keep them around for about 2 to 4 years. Each has a “Priced from scratch” number. Remember that this includes 4x $100 [...]

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One of the abstraction problems I had with plotting out home virtualization is that I’ve already solved a number of these problems, and I don’t have a dedicated budget to go about replacing my whole – working – infrastructure. But knowing how much electricity is lost and heat generated with each little power brick and [...]

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Apparently it’s time to start in on the project, as my Linksys router is melting. Getting any decent load on the router causes it to reset. This is especially problematic because it is the central switch in the network. That backup you were doing? Not so much. I borrowed a switch from the basement storage [...]

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In my previous post on the topic, I presented a couple alternative ways to get a lot of home infrastructure with little redundancy and some virtualization. The fact is, it’s pricey to do it ‘properly’. So I set out to look at the pros and cons of some alternative methods that make it a more [...]

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How will Dave centralize his home infrastructure?

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<daveb> or maybe I’ll just leave things alone and play video games instead <nate> <nate> always a good solution <daveb> sat down last night to play some Gran Turismo and fell asleep BEFORE THE GAME STARTED., <nate> the load screen always takes a long time <daveb> Dave Barry has a fun article something about The [...]

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