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Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – Upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F | ESX Virtualization

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/09

This LSI 3008 HBA update to TI firmware is still on my wish list, but I could not find it when I bought the board in 2018.

[WayBack] Supermicro Single CPU Board for ESXi Home lab – Upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F | ESX Virtualization:

As you know my lab got an addition this year with Supermicro’s Single CPU board, the X10SRH-CLN4F. In this post we will be upgrading LSI 3008 HBA on the X10SRH-CLN4F.

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I have learned a new way to patch via UEFI. In fact, it’s same (or easier) than through DOS-based bootable USB. The IT firmware can be reverted back to IR firmware as in the ZIP package there are both versions there. So in case you need a server with hardware RAID, you can use the IR version. I was actually wondering what it means the IT and IR and here is what I have found at LSI (Avago) website:

“IT” firmware maximizes the connectivity and performance aspects of the HBA. “IR” firmware offers RAID functionality via RAID 0, 1, and 10 capabilities.

Via:

SR-IOV?

The step afterwards is to enable SR-IOV for this LSI 3008 HBA.

These links should help with that:

 

 

–jeroen

Posted in ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, Hardware, Mainboards, Power User, SuperMicro, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi, X10SRH-CF | Leave a Comment »

Why I love choco-cleaner for chocolatey

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/05

A while ago, I wrote about Installing Windows software with Chocolatey: a few notes and A choco install list, mentioned choco-cleaner in both (see first quote below) but forgot to show where this excels.

This is what I wrote:

since there is no choco cleanup yet [WayBack] you need to either:

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If you want to clean cruft:

choco install --yes choco-cleaner

It helps a lot for situations where chocolatey updates a package, but you still have the old software running. In that case, the old version will be in %ProgramData%\chocolatey\lib-bkp, potentially taking up a lot of disk space.

This happed to me for instance when still having Process Explorer open while upgrading.

This is what happened:

 ShimGen has successfully created a shim for ZoomIt.exe
This is try 1/3. Retrying after 300 milliseconds.
 Error converted to warning:
 Toegang tot het pad procexp.exe is geweigerd.
This is try 2/3. Retrying after 400 milliseconds.
 Error converted to warning:
 Toegang tot het pad procexp.exe is geweigerd.
Maximum tries of 3 reached. Throwing error.
Attempted to remove 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib-bkp\sysinternals' but had an error::
 Toegang tot het pad procexp.exe is geweigerd.
 The upgrade of sysinternals was successful.
  Software installed to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\sysinternals\tools'

Chocolatey upgraded 1/21 packages.
 See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).

Upgraded:
 - sysinternals v2019.3.18

C:\>C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\choco-cleaner\tools\choco-cleaner-manual.bat
Choco-Cleaner.ps1 v0.0.5.2 (01/09/2019) - deletes unnecessary residual Chocolatey files to free up disk space
Copyleft 2017-2019 Bill Curran (bcurran3@yahoo.com) - free for personal and commercial use
Choco-Cleaner Summary:
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey _processed.txt (WTF?) file...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey .ignore files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey .old files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey cache files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey config backup files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey lib-bad package files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey lib-bkp package files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey extracted file logs...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey log files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded archive files in toolsDir...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded archives and executables in .nupkg files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded license files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded Microsoft installers...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded various read me files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Nuget cache files...
Choco-Cleaner finished deleting unnecessary Chocolatey files and saved you 85.008 KB!
Found Choco-Cleaner.ps1 useful?
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–jeroen

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CP1500EPFCLCD – Backup UPS Systems | CyberPower

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/05

Reminder to self to write a bit more on the usage of a UPS my brother has got for a while now: CyberPower CP1500EPFCLCD which is Line-Interactive with Pure Sine Wave output.

Before buying the ESXi support seemed incredible.

Some links to start with:

 

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Posted in CP1500EPFCLCD, CyberPower, Hardware, Power User, UPS | 2 Comments »

West Side Story: Percussionist’s Perspective – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/05

So you thought percussion was easy? Try repeating Joe Martone playing parts of West Side Story:

–jeroen

Posted in About, LifeHacker, Music, Personal, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Print Friendly & PDF

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/02

I bumped into [WayBack] Print Friendly & PDF: Make a Printer Friendly & PDF version of any webpage.

Though Chrome has built-in PDF output support, often web sites render like a mess with it.

Hopefully the above site makes better PDFs in those cases.

I will try to use it for those, and get back if it works.

Via:

 

–jeroen

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Do we have songs with Triangelist? 😁🤘 | Metal Amino

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/02

[WayBack] Do we have songs with Triangelist? 😁🤘 | Metal Amino

Via:

–jeroen

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The tale of [SSH into ESXi 6.7 box resulting in “debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY”, delay and after entering password “Permission denied, please try again.”]

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/02

A similar ESXi 6.5 box worked well to ssh into, but on ESXi 6.7 it failed:

SSH into ESXi 6.7 box resulting in “debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY“, delay and after entering password “Permission denied, please try again.“

I had a hard time figuring out why: Login with the same user+password on the web user interface, DCUI and console shell work fine (see [WayBack] Enable SSH on VMware ESXi 6.x – VirtuBytes).

Searches that led me to EBCAK:

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Posted in ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, Hardware, IPMI, Mainboards, Power User, PowerCLI, SuperMicro, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »

Ship Your Enemies Glitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/01

If you’re out of prank ideas: [WayBack] Ship Your Enemies Glitter

Prank your Friends and Enemies. Let us send them some stupid glitter that is guaranteed to go everywhere. You don’t have to move a muscle. Just tell us their address, write a funny note, and leave the rest up to the pros. Prank on Demand!<

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in Apri1st, Fun, LifeHacker, Power User, Prank | Leave a Comment »

linux – How can I execute a series of commands in a bash subshell as another user using sudo? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/31

Based on [WayBack] linux – How can I execute a series of commands in a bash subshell as another user using sudo? – Stack Overflow:

alias restart-spotlight-service-as-root="sudo bash -c 'echo stop;launchctl stop com.apple.metadata.mds;echo start;launchctl start com.apple.metadata.mds;echo started'"

The bold bits above sudo bash -c 'echo stop;launchctl stop com.apple.metadata.mds;echo start;launchctl start com.apple.metadata.mds;echo started' allow the commands between single quotes to executed in one new bash shell under sudo.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, bash, bash, Development, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Warn me whenever and where you are going to use these adapter patterns

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/30

Well known in the software development bubble: Adapter pattern – Wikipedia.

If you ever are going to apply the below ones at the hardware level, please warn me in advance when and where you are going to.

~0.5 Ampère over an almost zero sized contact surface is for sure going to result in some burns eventually.

DO NOT EVER DO THIS

Juha is an irresponsible father of two, Nikita reckless, and it’s not just Julien’s tweets that have a life expectancy.

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