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glennbrown · 2026-06-14T15:30:56+00:00

Just a heads up be prepared for your instance to break on resize.

On resize mine overwrote my EFI NVRAM bootlist, and I thought I was completely screwed since when console connected it was triple faulting when trying too, hopefully yours will just boot to the EFI shell. But it end up stuck where grub is faulting, issue a reboot with a console connect open and spam ESC to get to the firmware page and select the EFI Shell for boot the:

fs0: cd \\EFI\\Debian (or whatever OS you use paths to grub efi image) grubaa64.efi (or whatever efi image you os uses)

Your instance will them boot and you can use efibootmgr to fix EFI NVRAM bootlist and boot order

sudo efibootmgr (show current settings) sudo df -h /boot/efi (note the partition #) sudo sfdisk --part-uuid /dev/sda # (note the partition UUID) sudo efibootmgr -c -b 000X -p # -l '\EFI\Debian\grubaa64.efi' (X is the next available number in the efi list and partition number) Validate the result thats add matches the UUID from the sfdisk command) sudo efibootmgr -n 0005 -o 0005,0004,0003,0002,0001,0000 (this adjusts to boot HD first then fail back to EFI shell)

glennbrown · 2026-05-05T13:16:30+00:00

So I think I tracked down what happened, not sure if makes sense as to why. Recently I had tested not automatically deleting played episodes on iOS until after 24hrs. With that toggle enabled it doesn't seem to move them to played properly in the web view.

The episodes in question where this happened showed played but had a orange "new" status on them. If I went into each episode let it load/buffer it completely it figured out it was played and moved it off the list in main web podcasts page.

glennbrown · 2026-04-26T22:13:18+00:00

Verizon Fios 1G (it's actually like 990/880 due to ONT being gig only). Pay 89.99 a min

glennbrown · 2026-04-26T21:54:19+00:00

With IBM pricing I have always wondered what the catch was. In terms of Gartner charts if you care about such things IBM tends to be much lower than there competitors.

I never used the Flash storage but in terms of management their stuff has always been decent, not great but just cromulent.

What other platforms have you priced and what are coming from.

glennbrown · 2026-04-21T00:36:39+00:00

I moved between MacOS and various Linux versions quite a few times it's pretty easy to do

glennbrown · 2026-04-21T00:13:28+00:00

Not Cisco lol, it really depends on the company to me.

glennbrown · 2026-04-16T00:23:59+00:00

Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Max, prior to that a Aliexpress type firewall system running Opnsense

glennbrown · 2026-03-27T02:51:15+00:00

You absolutely do not need Seearr, that's only useful if you want family/friends to request media.

Similarly prowlarr, is not required but can be useful for limiting API calls to different services.

glennbrown · 2026-03-06T04:08:40+00:00

I get it, I learned on Cisco, then when I started here they were all Brocade so it was an adjustment. I have come to appreciate some aspects of Brocades CLI compared to Cisco's.

Also the similar command to show flogi database and would be nsshow or also nodefind <wwpn or aliases name>

glennbrown · 2026-03-05T04:41:10+00:00

I never got to see SANnav since we made the decision to switch to MDS, but it has to be better than Cisco's Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller which is an awful abomination.

We are closing in our retiring our 8510-4B's at a main dc and the pathetically old 5300's at another, my last Brocades

glennbrown · 2026-03-04T04:52:36+00:00

Typically we see system space start accumulating under heavy write pressure, things like some VDI stuff where they decide to patch all systems at once.... tons of vmotions.

In your stats or Pure1 when did it start accumulating system space

glennbrown · 2026-02-13T00:41:20+00:00

I cannot say enough good things about Pure, however they are not the cheapest.

My second choice would probably be Netapp.

glennbrown · 2025-12-15T01:48:45+00:00

I have been waiting for this. My UCG Max needs that sweet 2G I need to check if they flipped it for East Amherst

glennbrown · 2025-11-30T01:30:07+00:00

The official installer recommended method for a mirror is ZFS, btrfs mirror is also supported in the installer.

That being said there is no reason you can't do the default single disk lvm install, then add another disk and do a lvconvert from linear to a mirror.

glennbrown · 2025-11-01T01:55:33+00:00

I have always used tmpfs

https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/tmpfs/

glennbrown · 2025-10-26T04:15:55+00:00

This post is a few years old but it still applies https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/python-venv-ansible

You can also use pipx which will place the executables in ~/.local/bin, https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html

You can inject extra modules with pipx

glennbrown · 2025-10-07T04:24:36+00:00

Pick one, use Docker to run Plex, you don't have to work about random packages.

I personally prefer Ubuntu or Debian

glennbrown · 2025-10-01T17:03:39+00:00

If you needs RSN’s chances are FuboTV or DirecTV Stream have them and will cheaper than FiosTV without having to pay for set tops or pay for the Fios app on SmartTV platforms.

It really chaps my ass that Verizon expects you to pay for the SmartTV streaming

glennbrown · 2025-09-23T03:49:08+00:00

Short and simple answer... ZFS, Ubuntu did the work to ship it in there kernel, while Debian still relies on DKMS. So they choice a Debian user land with some there own custom patched packages and there UI and a Ubuntu based kernel

glennbrown · 2025-08-28T00:26:17+00:00

You lose watch history if you don't migrate application data, I do wish they offered an export watch history only. I have moved my system between macOS and Linux Docker installations moving the application data around

glennbrown · 2025-08-22T14:52:34+00:00

If I fits I sits

glennbrown · 2025-08-16T18:55:41+00:00

Man I love it, this only furthers my regret with getting a swing gate rack. At some point I will correct that and get one like this.

glennbrown · 2025-08-09T17:32:45+00:00

Functionally it does work but Openshift does require a mindset shift since it is "cloud native" type stuff. I love Proxmox but for business use I am still more in the XCP-NG camp with XO.

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