Introduction Currently the homelab is running on 3 Dell PowerEdge servers (two R630, one R730XD). These are all running VMware vSphere (ESXi) 7.0U2d to support a number of virutal machines.…Continue readingMigrating ESXi installs from USB to SSD
By request of the players, I’ve upgraded the current install on the Vanilla server to 1.18. We will continue with the current world spawn until 1.19, at which point, we…Continue readingMinecraft Vanilla Upgraded to 1.18
Since my previous post on this subject, I’ve refreshed both of the Minecraft servers and made them directly accessible with the appropriate client. As part of the refresh to Minecraft…Continue readingDaemonizing and World Backups – Improved!
It’s finally here! Minecraft 1.17 – Caves & Cliffs Part 1 released on June 8, 2021. As mentioned in my previous post, we’ve quickly rerolled the server to a new…Continue readingMinecraft 1.17 Server Up!
Minecraft 1.17 – Caves and Cliffs Part 1 was released on June 8, 2021. Our world on 1.16 had largely been explored in the Overworld, Nether and The End. We…Continue readingMinecraft 1.16 – That’s a Wrap!
Since setting up the original Minecraft server on Google Cloud Platform, I’ve been constantly trying to find ways to lower the monthly cost. A 10 user Minecraft Realms server can…Continue readingNew LinuxTek Minecraft Hosted Servers
For the last few years, I’ve been running many of my on-premise services in VMWare ESXi virtual machines. Since around 2013, I’ve been using an AMD FX-8350 processor, 16-24GB RAM…Continue readingNew On-Premise Server