Today was quite the day. As the title says, systems were failing all over the place. Our main switch at work (a Cisco 6509) crashed about 3 times this week, causing our vSphere environment to crash repeatedly, taking all the guest VMs with it. We searched for a long while before discovering that a faulty UPS battery was to blame for the switch’s instability. Meanwhile, we’re left with a misconfigured iSCSI SAN and 3 ESX hosts with no storage.
At home, my crazy MythTV/OpenVZ/KVM/PBX/Windows 2003/Seedbox/RADIUS server had to be shut down when my home network started acting up. DHCP stopped working, and the machines that were left had difficulty pinging each other. This time, a Cisco device was to blame. A WRT610N router that I use as an ABGN Access-point running DD-WRT had somehow bricked itself and started broadcasting packets on the network, thus flooding my routers and other computers. Then, I tried booting up my server again. MythTV and OpenVZ started up OK, but the qemu-server/kvm machines didn’t start, throwing “can’t open lock for VM 107 ‘/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-107.conf’ – No such file or directory”. Weird error. The fix is to create the /var/lock/qemu-server folder.
And finally, everything at home is up and running again. We’ll see tomorrow morning how things go at work. David was staying late today on the phone with Dell EqualLogic specialists, so fingers crossed!
With Microsoft set to unleash its latest OS on the world in about a week, the Interweb is buzzing with all sorts of new Windows 7-related material. Some interesting things i’ve found:
Michael Dell says when “you get the latest processor technology and you get Windows 7 and Office 2010, you will love your PC again; we actually have not been able to say that for a long time.” Let’s hope that’s true.
Windows 7 also improves touch and tablet support, bringing a wave of new touch and pen powered devices. You’ve seen the HP TouchSmart PCs, and the old Tablet PCs. Now Acer has announced a relatively cheap (799USD) 15.6″ touchscreen laptop, the Acer Aspire 5738PG. Looks interesting, but I won’t be getting one… my wallet is still hurting after being hit by that MacBook Pro.
On a more personal note, I’ll be heading to Ottawa on the 26th for some training on Windows 7 Desktop optimization… should be interesting; also, Ottawa!
Also, less in the mainstream but equally exciting, only 15 days to go before Ubuntu Karmic!
Someone at the school board received this spam message today. I must say this variation is better than the usual junk about viagra and rolexes 
. But seriously, what are they expecting to get out of this?
bonjour!!! ca va??? je m’appelle Svetlana. j’ai 29 ans.
j’ai deja eu une mauvaise experience de parler avec les hommes dans l’internet.
nous avons eu une correspondance exceptionnelle tres longtemps et je l’ai cru.
j’ai l’habitude de croire les hommes mais cet homme a casse mon coeur.
j’etais choquee et je ne savais pas ce que je devais faire. j’ai cesse a croire les hommes.
j’ai commence a travailler ferme pour oublier tout.
j’ai reussi a faire la cariere mais j’ai compris que la vie ce n’est pas le travail.
je veux etre aimee et je veux offrir l’amour.
je ne sais pas pourquoi je te dis ca j’ai regarde ton prifil et j’ai decide de t’ecrire.
je deteste le mensonge et les jeux avec les gens.
si tes intentions sont serieuses ecris mon email: tendra3@rambler.ru
So now I’m back at work after a good week off. The big project of the summer is Vmware migration, and the new equipment has just started coming in. We will be consolidating 20 servers into 4 VM hosts.
The specs of the system:
4 * Dell PowerEdge R710 servers (2*Intel Xeon X5550, 48GB RAM)
Dell EqalLogic iSCSI SAN 16 x 450GB @15K RPM
We have received the four servers, but can’t start until the SAN arrives…
Quick note:
using LDAP’s default port 389 with a Base DN of the parent Active Directory domain only shows objects from the parent domain. Changing the port to 3268 but keeping the same Base DN allows LDAP access to users from the child AD domain.
So, finally got the Openfire Jabber server to see all users from both domains.
Found via: http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/message/155746
For further reading: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/cc978012.aspx
Kind of a lame first post, but hey, gotta start somewhere!
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