Grafana and Chromecasting - Part 2

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…

Free Veeam linux backups

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…

Nutanix CE, Dell H700 and disk detection

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…

Ok, not bailing on Nutanix CE just yet

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&…

Bailing on Nutanix CE

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…

Raspberry Pi Zero W headless setup

There seems to be conflicting info out there for how to accomplish this.  Compounded with the Zero's different micro ports, it's easier if you can set it up as a headless device.  Unfortunately, I found that if you try to do this locally, with a monitor…