Problem: 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:…
I’ve “fixed” such a computer a with tendency to freeze today. It happened that about every two hours, the computer froze. I let it roam for a while, and noted that the Chipset’s North-Bridge was getting terribly hot. The computer chassis was left open because of driver incompatibility regarding the on-board network interface, so a…
And my “lab zone” needs to be packed up. I’ve closed the lid of some of the computers in the lab, and piled them up. Got about 27 computers, some of them in working order, without counting my “Production” (yeah) computers, 6 computers acting as servers, two desktops and one laptop. Two additional laptops I…
Defining an array of 10x300GB SATA disks, we need to utilize it for our needs. It will be joined in the near future by another such array, but since it will be an additional array and not added disks to this existing array, we need to think onwards, and utilize LVM, so we can "join"…
Installed RHEL4 on a system with both internal storage (HP SmartAray 5i – cciss) and external disks through Qlogic FCS HBA. During install, the local disks were detected as /dev/cciss/c0d0 while the external disks were detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb After installation was done, Grub started with incorrect mapping. For no apparent reason, Grub searched…
Imagine Omniback 4.x to Omniback 5.5 upgrade on HP-UX. Imagine you assume all existing backup procedure (and you were told there is license only for disk agent) is based on filesystem backup. Assume you know there’s Oracle installed on this server, but no relevant agent (again, filesystem only, no DB agents…) You are cautious. You…
