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How to upgrade VMWare ESXi on HP Gen8 Microserver
go to VMware ESXi Patch Tracker and check for the latest ImageProfile e.g. ESXi-6.5.0-20170404001-standard Shut down all VMs and turn on maintenance mode allow outbound firewall requests esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient execute the update: esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.5.0-20170404001-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml Disable firewall ports esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r…
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Fix: /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff is consuming entire drive
Some of my docker containers were complaining that they didn’t have enough drive space. This looked odd – so i logged in to the host and checked around: All space used up. Huh. Wonder why? I did a quick check to see what’s using most space: clearly /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff is what’s causing it. Let’s clean that up:…
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Creating a VM to test Docker – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It
onwards… downloaded the Ubuntu 16.04 Server LTS CD Created new VM Connected ISO to virtual DVD in console in VMWare vSphere client booted to the ISO pressed F4 and selected “minimal” pressed F6 and selected minimal VM walked through and added SSH at the right point SSHd to the server I installed docker using these instructions,…
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Fix: Flashing an M1015 – Error code = 64 Failed to flash the image. Please retry recovery
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Installing VMWare – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It
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How to flash IBM ServeRaid M1015 to LSI9211-IT for ZFS in HP Gen8 Microserver
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Preparing for migration – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It
This post is the second in my series describing how i migrated from Unraid to Napp-It, and describes how I prepared for migration. So – preparing for migration… First, i wanted to capture the docker configuration for each of my existing containers. To do this, I forced the container to update, then when unraid presented me…
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Fix: Emby Docker fails to start when config on mounted share – SQLite “database is locked”
I have a clean VM running Ubuntu 16.04 on VWare ESXi 6.5. I have a CIFS share mounted at /mnt/appdata with the noperm flag. The share is writeable. I installed Docker using the instructions here: https://hub.docker.c…mby/embyserver/ then the next command, sudo systemctl enable emby-server.service, didnt work. Instead I had to do: then I ran emby-server and configured…
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HP Gen8 Microserver error “Embedded media manager failed initialization” – how to get HPQLOCFG
During the process of installing VMWare on to my Gen8 Microserver, I had trouble writing data to the internal SD card – in fact, I couldn’t even see it. Looking in the ILO Event Logs I saw this: Embedded Flash/SD-CARD: Embedded media manager failed initialization. googling this didn’t get me much – just forum posts with people…
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Hardware required – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It
I’ve been a user of Unraid since 2012, when I had to find a solution to my home storage after Windows Home Server was abandoned by Microsoft. Unraid has been very good for me, and the introduction of a Docker engine with Unraid 6 was very welcome. That said, I’ve recently encountered issues with bitrot, and the fact…