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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
CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority) has recently launched a new DNS service called the “Canadian Shield” which is basically a DNS service similar to OpenDNS or Cloudflares 1.1.1.1 for Canadians, by Canadians. CIRA offers three levels of protection depending on how safe you want to be: Private: DNS resolution service that keeps your DNS data … 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
Update 2021-01-25: There is now a Part 3 to this project For those of you who read my Part 1 of this project you’ll remember I said I’d try installing a better CPU heat sink once I had some cash. Well I did and it didn’t work. This post will hopefully save someone 1.5 hours … Read more