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Migrating 6.5TB of FileStream Data to AWS S3 - A Journey Concluded
So, this week concludes our migration to S3 for this component of our system, and it’s been a rather epic journey. As a sigh of relief, I made a post on reddit, and was overwhelmed with the response. Over 100 upvotes and 65+ comments, was rather unexpected. …
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Grafana Update - IBM x3650 M2 on IPMI
Minor update following on from my previous post (here), I’ve changed the IBM input to use IPMI over LAN, and unlocked a few more details. …
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Homelab Dashboard with Grafana, InfluxDB & Telegraf
So it’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to write anything here, but since it’s the holiday break, and I’m off work for a while, it’s been time to add new hardware to the rack, take care of things that have been needing to be done for a while, and really clean and tune things up. …
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FibreChannel Comes to the HomeLab!
So, I’ve decided it was time to upgrade my home-lab storage. I previously had just a single host, a Dell R710, with 4x 2TB drive on-board via a H700 RAID card, running ESXi. I had a FreeNAS setup to provide media storage, but it just had single volumes sitting on a VMDK. Not ideal, not a good idea, but it worked. Until I started to run out of space. …
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Tools Section - HTML to ASP converter
So in my day to day work, I’ve been involved in a large scale conversion of an old ASP Classic web application to a .NET application. Nothing fancy, just a basic conversion to the new platform. Over 400 .asp pages in total, plus a lot of background and support work. No small task. …
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Welcome to the static blog!
Welcome to my new static blog. I don’t imagine this will get much traffic, and I really don’t expect it to. …