Due to a major disk crash, I have had to use my ‘other’ computer for VPN connections. It meant that I have had to prepare it for the operation. I attempted to login to aJuniper-based SSL-VPN connection, however, I did get a message saying that my 64bit Java was inadequate. I had a link, as…
Today there will be a few different posts. This is a day full of events, so… My first – to allow tsclient to work under Ubuntu 12.04, you should follow this guide: http://superuser.com/a/547102 To sum it up: Get tsclient to your architecture from http://pkgs.org Install it using ‘sudo dpkg –force-depends -i tsclient_0.150-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb’ Edit /var/lib/dpkg/status ,…
I have been using the excellent template and scripts from this forum post, however, when the NetApp device is loaded with LUNs and volumes, the script will cause the Cacti to timeout, and during that time, consume CPU. The original cause of this problem was a workaround to some NetApp Perl API bug the original…
When Connecting Linux to a large array of SAS disks (JBOD), udev creates default persistent names in /dev/disk/by-* . These names are based on LUN ID (all disks take lun0 by default), and by path, which includes, for a pure SAS bus – the PWWN of the disks. It means that an example to such…
I have been implementing Nas4Free recently, and found this system to be a very nice one. I might try to port its web interface to Linux, as it completes a set of requirements (regarding graphic interface) I do not find in Linux, and wish I could… However, I have had to add a driver for…
In this part I will discuss a possible solution to a problem I encountered several times already – failure to understand XenServer use of LVM, but first – a little explanation of the topic. XenServer makes extensive use of LVM technology in order to support the storage requirements of virtual disks. It is being utilized…
