Memory Exhaustion Errors in vGhetto F@H Appliance

Noticed an oddity in the F@H Appliance that William Lam aka vGhetto of VMware fame. After deploying a couple of his appliances without issue on vCenter 7, I started noticing behavior where the appliance would happily fold, and then crash and restart. Even after reinstalling the appliance I encountered the same behavoir. I logged into …

Speedtest Driven Grafana Install on a Raspberry Pi

Recently been diving into Grafana and InfluxDB at work and playing around a bit at home. Started looking into doing a Speed Test Page in order to see how my Network Speeds are during the day. Stumbled upon a tutorial here. I tried it on a Raspberry Pi 3B, but due to its limited Network …

How to Install Folding at Home on a Raspberry Pi 4

Install Raspberry OS on the device. I’ve chosen to use the Raspberry Pi Imager and install Raspberry PI OS 64bit, as the 64bit variant is required for the FAH installer. Be sure to enable headless SSH from this link. I’ve chosen to power my PIs with POE using a POE Hat like this. It’s simply …

How to Configure Synology iSCSi for VM Homelab

Login to your Synology and launch iSCSI Manager Select Target and click Create Name your Target and Select Next Click Next to create a new LUN Name your LUN and select the size Click Apply and wait for the LUN to setup Login to your Vcenter, select a ESXi Server and click on Configure and …