Following up on my previous post about running Grafana out to a Chromecast dongle on a TV, I've now tested it going directly to a Vizio 4k TV with the built in Chromecast functionality. Looks like it works fine and is actually pretty responsive. Unfortunately, it appears to…
I've been looking for a simple security vulnerability scanning tool for a while now. OpenVAS looked promising in the past, but I always had trouble getting it to work. I decided to work through it this weekend and figure out what I was doing wrong. In a nutshell,…
For a while now I've been running Plex as my primary media server. I've been trying to use the Plex DVR, but found it to be very finicky. Mostly, it would fail to record shows without telling me in any way. I'd review my…
I didn't feel like fighting against Nutanix CE any more so I copied my VMs out using qemu and rebuilt the entire cluster with ESXi 6.7 free. Seems to be ok so far with a few minor issues. Now that I'm back in operation I…
Not sure why I didn't post this before, but here it is. When installing Nutanix CE on a Dell server (R710 in my case) with a PERC H700 card you can't do a pass-through on the disks. You have to configure them as a single disk…
Since my last post I've been fighting to get the cluster back to some semblance of stability. Doesn't look like that's going to happen. However, there isn't anything out there that approaches the ease of configuration, fault tolerance and hyperconverged storage I&…
I've had a number of problems with CE lately that look like they'll be difficult to fix. Not sure I'll have a better experience with a different platform, but I figure it's about time to try. If nothing else, I'll…
I've wanted to use simple Chromecast dongles for pumping a Grafana dashboard to a TV for a while now. The challenge has been how to effectively manage the casting source. Chromecasts can't manage any of their own content, they can only be a casting target. I…