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Server online – finished migration!
ByetzionIt was a tough one. A real tough one. However, finally, our little Dell Server (described below) PE1800, is up and running. Replacing it’s old 5 years old predecessor. It was a living hell, but it allowed me vast experiments with wider range of technologies, better combined solutions, and newer, more mature approach to system…
Customer’s site goes down
ByetzionI’m not too happy about it, but we’ve tried to convince him to migrate his data to another server, or at least let us rebuild the server from scratch. It’s one of those in this link , holding few virtual machines (VServers), and it appears that the person who built it decided that the system…
NFS problems in failover – MC Service Guard. Applicable to other Linux HA clusters
ByetzionProblem: Two Linux servers (RHEL4) running NFS Server in High-Availability (failover) mode. When failovering the resources, an NFS client can continue to work. When failing back, the NFS client times-out for 5+ minutes. Further problem information: While using RHEL3, that same (exact) configuration worked flawlessly. Solution: set NFS options to UDP instead of TCP. Explanation:…
Netboot on RHEL x86 (32bit) with Broadcom (tg3) – no network
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I’ve been busy, so it’s a long one.
ByetzionIt has been long time since I’ve written here before. I got lazy, but I have few new things to share with whoever reads this blog, and myself, for future reference. First – I’ve got a nice VGA card from a friend of mine, a nice looking TI8200 x8, which is a great upgrade comparing…

