Yesterday, I passed the third Microsoft exam on the way to my MCSE – 070-291
Posts from ‘January, 2008’
Am I a developer now?
We have a client who needs to run a clustered DHCP server. They run Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 with a Novell/HDS cluster. Problem is, there’s no good simple, Linux application out there that can do the following: Web-based front-end to DHCP Log all DHCP information into a SQL database Make use of comments in [...]
Handing back the geek card – Part Deux
I just passed the first of the Microsoft Core exams – 070-290. I feel dirty
My VMware ESX data collection script
We all hate documentation but it has to be done. This script will literally collect all available data about your ESX server into a directory called /var/data-collect-hostname, you can then SCP it off to write up documentation off-site. This script also gathers EMC Navispehere information, so if you don’t have an EMC SAN, remove the [...]
Tired of SCP?
Well so am I. I’m sick and tired of installing/downloading WinSCP onto every computer I need to transfer ISOs from, to my ESX servers. There has to be a better way. And there is. But it will break you VMware support agreement. Initially I was thinking of compiling SAMBA RPMs but that doesn’t solve anything [...]
Full path in service console
I got tired of typing pwd constantly, to see where I was in relation to the root, so I modified the bash shell to show me automatically in the prompt: perl -p -i -e ‘s/\\W]/\\w]/g’ /etc/bashrc Then log out and log in.
An interesting issue – migrating SANs with attached ESX hosts.
An interesting issue came up recently with a customer doing a CX300 > CX3-40 migration, while keeping the hosts the same. All VMs were shut down and the LUNs were SANCOPY’d across to the new SAN. The servers were then re-attached to the same LUNs, except ESX would not pick them up. Looking into /vmfs/devices/lvm [...]