Let’s say you have old shelves of either EMC or NetApp with SAS or SATA disks in them. And let’s say you want to connect them via FC to a Linux machine and have some nice ZFS machine/cluster, or whatever else. There are few things to know, and to attend in order for it to…
While searching the web for how to perform PCI-Passthrough on XenServers, we mostly get info about previous versions. Since I have just completed setting up PCI-Passthrough on XenServer version 6. 5 (with recent update 8, just to give you some notion of the exact time frame), I am sharing it here. Hardware: Cisco UCS blades,…
I wanted to write down a guide for RHCS on RHEL/Centos6 and XenServer. If you want to do that, you need to go through two major challenges which you will encounter. I want to save on the search and sum it all up together here. The first difficulty is the shared disk. In order to…
