A quick note about extracting and recreating RHEL6 or Centos6 (and their derivations) installation media components: Initrd: Extract: Archive (after you applied your changes): /images/install.img: Extract: Archive (after you applied your changes): Additional note for Anaconda installation parameters: I did not test it, however there is a boot flag called stage2= which should lead to…
The goal – connecting multiple Oracle ASM snapshots (same source LUNs, of course) to the same machine. The next process will demonstrate how to do it. Problem: ASM disks use a disk label called ASMLib to maintain access even when the logical disk path might change (like adding a LUN with a lower ID and…
The following procedure was tested by me, and was found to be working. The version of the XenServer I am using in this particular case is 6.1, however, I belive that this method is generic enough so that it could work for every version of XS, assuming you’re using iSCSI and LVM (aka – not…
In particular – Oracle UEK, which “claims” to be 2.6.39-xxx, but is actually 3.0.x with a lower version number. Several misbehaviors (or differences) of version 3 can be found. One of them is related to BackupExec. The service would not start on OEL6 with UEK kernels. The cause of it is an incorrect use of…
When using ‘disk show -v’ on a NetApp filer version 7.3.x, following replacement or addition of disk(s), you might see the above mentioned message. It is caused by incorrect disk label – of OnTap version 8, on an OnTap version 7.3.x system. The system cannot handle the incorrect label, and thus – ignores the disk….
SABnzbd is a nice tool. I just replaced my previous nzbget with it, due to its better handling of the obfuscated names in usenet groups. However, on an Atom CPU, the max download speeds did not go over ~5MB/s on a 100Mb/s link. This is rather sad, because nzbget did get the whole ~11MB/s speeds….
