I have encountered several methods of doing stateless RedHat Linux systems. Some of them are over-sophisticated, and it doesn’t work. Some of them are too old, and you either have to fix half the scripts, or give up (which I did, BTW), and after long period of attempts, I have found my simple-yet-working-well-enough solution. It…
Oracle VM, out of the box, does not allow network bonds. An excellent guide on how to enable bonding which I have partially followed, has convinced me that changing the relevant scripts would be better. That I have done, and reported in this wiki post. To sum things up – configure bonding/VLAN tagging as you…
I have had some work done lately with NetApp SnapMirror. I have snapped-mirrored some volumes and qtrees and I wanted to monitor their use and behavior over the line. As you can expect, site-to-site replication of data is a fragile thing, especially when done on the level of the storage device, which is agnostic to…
XenServer is a wonderful tool. One of the better parts of it is its powerful scripting language, powered by the ‘xe’ command. In order to capture a mass of snapshots, you can either do it manually from the GUI, or scripted. The script supplied below will include shell functions to capture Quiesce snapshots, and it…
I have a nice SCSI tape connected to a single server. This allows for on-demand backups, with the hope (and seldom, with the established knowledge) that I can recover the data I have there. Old computers, decommissioned computers and systems I wish to erase and reuse are seldom backed-up, just because of the effort in…
Working with RH Cluster quite a lot, I have decided to create an online store of customer agents/scripts. I have not, so far, invested the effort of making these agents accept settings from the cluster.conf file, but this might happen. Let the library be! Oracle DB script/agent: Although I discovered (a bit late) that RH…
