A Crash for the Ages

The title says it all, I went on Vacation a few weeks back, everything was running fine, I decided to brings 80% of the systems down as no one would be here to use them, I.E: Me.

I get back and start booting them all up only to start having issues left an right in different Machines, Background most of my ‘Lab’ is virtualized, maintained on one Main Server, Dual CPU 6 core, 128GB ram, over 3TB SSD and over 3TB HDD, sad part is under a money crunch the 3TB of SSD were consumer grade and thats what ended up being my downfall. It seems one began to fail and ESXi just freaked out.. Now the entire system is down, I have made back ups of what I could, ordered new Enterprise Drives, and await there.

This is running on 6 Raspberry PIs, you may remember my old cluster project, 7 raspberry pis running Gentoo for a single goal: self sufficiency that goal was met with one building the kernel, another storing everything outside of root, slowly they all started to die without a will to rebuild it was reborn into this. Gluster backend, MariaDB galera split over the six of them.

Edit!: And now with https!

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