Howdy,

Isnt it always the case.

I left home today at 3pm to pick up my daughter and head off to see my Dad - I 3hr journey.

After catching up with him (havent seen him since Jan due to COVID), I thought I'd login to the BBS and see what's going on. It was dead.

According to the logs the Pi died at 2:58pm!

But all is back now (I'm hoping) and things should flow again. I'll check tomorrow morning for any reporting anything amiss!

Some folks have asked me why do I run ESXi on the Pi? This is why. I'm 300 klm away and not home until Sunday. With ESXi, I could connected to the web console, see that the drive had failed disappeared, reboot it (fingers crossed it re-appeared and it did), check/repair it, and then start the BBS VM...

Its been running a month or two under ESXi, so its pretty solid - hoping my USB drive isnt failing - fingers crossed... ;)

...ëîåï

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On 27 Nov 2020 at 11:20p, deon pondered and said...

But all is back now (I'm hoping) and things should flow again. I'll
check tomorrow morning for any reporting anything amiss!

Hi Deon,

Looks like I can connect, but them something goes amiss:

+ 2020.11.28 06:28:06 Queued 4 files (28,039 bytes) for 21:3/100
+ 2020.11.28 06:28:06 1-Polling 21:3/100 on slot 1 via BINKP
+ 2020.11.28 06:28:06 1-Connecting to fidohub.leenooks.net on port 24554
+ 2020.11.28 06:28:06 1-Using address 101.186.5.106
+ 2020.11.28 06:28:07 1-Connected by IPV4 to 101.186.5.106
+ 2020.11.28 06:28:07 1-RB Socket read status 113
+ 2020.11.28 06:28:07 1-RB Socket read result 113
+ 2020.11.28 06:28:07 1-Connection lost
+ 2020.11.28 06:28:07 1-Authorization failed
+ 2020.11.28 06:28:09 Polled 1 systems


Jay

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On 27 Nov 2020 at 11:20p, deon pondered and said...

But all is back now (I'm hoping) and things should flow again. I'll
check tomorrow morning for any reporting anything amiss!

Thanks Deon :)

Some folks have asked me why do I run ESXi on the Pi? This is why. I'm
300 klm away and not home until Sunday. With ESXi, I could connected to the web console, see that the drive had failed disappeared, reboot it (fingers crossed it re-appeared and it did), check/repair it, and then start the BBS VM...

Very nice indeed.

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down again. unfortunately I cannot upload this message if my hubis down ;)

Some folks have asked me why do I run ESXi on the Pi? This is why. I'm
300 klm away and not home until Sunday. With ESXi, I could connected to
the web console, see that the drive had failed disappeared, reboot it (fingers crossed it re-appeared and it did), check/repair it, and then start the BBS VM...

Is ESXi availabe for free (forever) or did you pay for it?

Its been running a month or two under ESXi, so its pretty solid - hoping
my USB drive isnt failing - fingers crossed... ;)

Not sure if it would have an advantages over LXC containers (for my usage). I have a 32-bit Pi anyway, so ESXi would not work.

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Re: Re: Hub 3 was down for a bit...
By: Warpslide to deon on Sun Nov 29 2020 12:54 am

Howdy,

But all is back now (I'm hoping) and things should flow again. I'll
check tomorrow morning for any reporting anything amiss!

Looks like I can connect, but them something goes amiss:

OK, I'm home now.

The Pi was kinda hot and Friday/Saturday were hot days here, so it may all be related.

I've tken the cover of the Pi and restarted it - seems to be OK but easier to keep an eye on it now...

...ëîåï

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Re: Hub 3 was down for a bit...
By: Oli to deon on Sat Nov 28 2020 04:59 pm

Howdy,

Is ESXi availabe for free (forever) or did you pay for it?

I believe it is free forever, but you loose some functionality after 180 days. (The 1st 180 days are effectively a fully licensed with a lot of features - probably lost on the pi anyway, then it reverts to a standard license which I think is good enough.)

If you look around, there is a fairly easy way to reset the 180 days (or there used to be anyway).

Not sure if it would have an advantages over LXC containers (for my usage). I have a 32-bit Pi anyway, so ESXi would not work.

I run docker in the VMs, so you could use it for a better "host" management (if you needed it)...

...ëîåï

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Oli wrote to deon <=-

Some folks have asked me why do I run ESXi on the Pi? This is why. I'm
300 klm away and not home until Sunday. With ESXi, I could connected to
the web console, see that the drive had failed disappeared, reboot it (fingers crossed it re-appeared and it did), check/repair it, and then start the BBS VM...

I'm an ESXi/vCenter guy at work, giving Proxmox a try. I'm pretty
excited about it, but might want to switch to ESXi at some point.

ESXi is very picky about hardware, whereas Proxmox seems to run on
anything Intel/AMD that can run Debian.

Is ESXi availabe for free (forever) or did you pay for it?

Pretty sure it's free for home/personal use for as long as I've
known. Whether that'll change in the future is anyone's guess.




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ESXi is very picky about hardware, whereas Proxmox seems to run on anything Intel/AMD that can run Debian.

We used Proxmox to run over 600 VMs at my former job. We even had the fun stuff working, like migrating running VMs between VMhosts with their IPs with no downtime. Proxmox is capable of a lot and we never had any serious issues with it.

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After all, we should not forget, it is your spare time, your private
equipment and your personal initiative, that makes this node is running.

Thanks for your commitment Deon


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Re: Re: Hub 3 was down for a bit...
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Oli on Mon Nov 30 2020 08:06 am

ESXi is very picky about hardware, whereas Proxmox seems to run on
anything Intel/AMD that can run Debian.

Yeah, this is true - mainly because VMware themselves only provide drivers for named hardware. You can also only run it on CPUs that have the hardware virtualisation extensions.

There is a German website (dont recall it off the top of my head), that has many drivers for consumer hardware. I've even got ESXi on my APU1D!

...ëîåï

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On 01 Dec 2020, Memo said the following...

After all, we should not forget, it is your spare time, your private equipment and your personal initiative, that makes this node is running.

Thanks for your commitment Deon

Yes, very much appreciated. :)


Jay

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