DIY Ambilight – part 3

Finally the new LED strip arrived so now I had al the pieces to connect everything together. I started by cutting the LED strip to the desired length. I had a total of 96 LEDs so I cut it in pieces of 8, 21, 38, 21, and 8 LEDs. In…

Allign SDRS Thresholds and Datastore Usage on Disk Alarms

Last week I was monitoring a relatively large vSphere cluster with several host clusters and datastore clusters. I saw a couple of datastore warnings related to the datastore usage. There were two or three datastores that were more than 75% utilized. Strange, because other datastores in the same datastore cluster…

DIY Ambilight – part 2

A while back I started with an Ambilight project based on a Raspberry PI and Hyperion. All the parts were delivered so I could finish the installation. The last part was to cut the LED strip into 5 pieces and solder them back together so they could be mounted on…