ndmpcopy is a wonderful command. It allows a fine-grained copy of files or directories between NetApp devices, across network, even if they do not use (or unlicensed) SnapMirror, SnapVault and the rest of the Snap* products NetApp offer. In this example I will show how to copy a LUN from one filer to the other….
The concept of running a virtual machine, KVM-based, in this case, under RHCS is acceptable and reasonable. The interesting part is that the <vm/> directive replaces the <service/> directive and acts as a high-level directive for VMs. This allows for things which cannot be performed with regular ‘service’, such as live migration. There are probably…
In my post here, I have explained (actually – created a shell script) to map USB disks to VMs directly. While this is easy and simple, it becomes more challenging when you want to map internal SATA disks. They are not attached to the “Removable Storage” SR, and thus, behave differently. The solution is to…
There is a very nice script for Windows dealing with attaching XenServer USB disk to a guest. It can be found here. This script has several problems, as I see it. The first – this is a Windows batch script, which is a very limited language, and it can handle only a single VDI disk…
DRBD is a low-cost shared-SAN-like solution, which has several great benefits, among which are no single point of failure, and very low cost (local storage and network cable). Its main disadvantages are in the need to constantly monitor it, and make sure it does what’s expected. Also – in some cases – performance might be affected greatly….
This post is for the users of the great dm-multipath system in Linux, who encounter a major availability problem when attempting a resize of mpath devices (and their partitions), and find themselves scheduling a reboot. This documented is based on a document created by IBM called “Hot Resize Multipath Storage Volume on Linux with SVC”,…
