Migrating to Cloud

The Elflord
Yes, a lot of disruptions. After lamenting over the state of the Australian NBN (Fraudband) - and realizing it would take 4 days to just copy my mailserver up, I've decided to drag it all to a hard disk and bring it to somewhere where I can upload 10x the…
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Quick roundup for Mar-Apr

The Elflord
Packages of note in the Internet worlds: pfSense (2.3 release) Runs off Bootstrap front end now, FreeBSD to 10.3 base. Looks very 'slick'. I did break the upgrade, cos the 'RX-offload' bug with Xen still exists in this release. Has to be turned off from the host. Code snippet given…
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Xen and CentOS7.2 (PV)

The Elflord
I always set up my CentOS VMs as PV mode (yes, I know PVHVM/etc) under FC23 host but this time it's not working. It is BROKEN. [ OK ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. [ OK ] Reached target Paths. [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. Mounting Configuration File…
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Mass update day

The Elflord
CentOS 7.2 is out, but took a day or two before it turned up on local mirror. Good thing I mirror everything, mass-updates of multi-VMs in progress. While I'm there, I'd upgrade Wordpress, and any other CMS's around. Busy day!
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Uptime problems :)

The Elflord
Yes, Server died on Sunday. Scraped together and found that the old video card had shorted out the motherboard. After a bit of effort, was forced to upgrade the server hardware. At least now I'm running: * i7-4790 (non-K) * Asus-Z97 Deluxe * 32GB RAM (Yay! More virtualization) OS install…
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Hardware issues + Upgrade

The Elflord
Popped capacitor caps on video cards are not good for motherboards. Desperate time to scrounge up some hardware I was forced to buy an (almost) complete system yesterday. * Asus Z97-Deluxe * 32GB RAM (G.skill-ARES) - Roar, the God of War lives in my machine.. * i7-4790 (non-K) for iommu…
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