After major investigations around, I came to the conclusion that a full guide describing the procedure required for online disk resize on Linux (especially – expanding disks). I have created a guide for RHEL5/6/7/8 (works the same for Centos or OEL or ScientificLinux – RHEL-based Linux systems) which takes into account the following four scenarios:…
*** EDIT *** : An updated version of this post can be found here: https://run.tournament.org.il/ubuntu-20-04-and-tpm2-encrypted-system-disk/ When you encrypt your entire disk, you are required to enter your passphrase every time you boot your computer. The TPM device has a purpose – keeping your secrets secure (available only to your running system), and combined with SecureBoot,…
I wanted to write down a guide for RHCS on RHEL/Centos6 and XenServer. If you want to do that, you need to go through two major challenges which you will encounter. I want to save on the search and sum it all up together here. The first difficulty is the shared disk. In order to…
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….
Linux works perfectly well with multiple storage links using dm-multipath. Not only that, but HP has released their own spawn of dm-multipath, which is optimized (or so claimed, but, anyhow, well configured) to work with EVA and MSA storage devices. This is great, however, what do you do when mapping volume snapshots through dm-multipath? For…
HP MSA1000 is an entry-level disk storage capable of communicating via different types of interfaces, such as SCSI and FC, and can allow FC failover. This FC failover, however, is controller failover and not path failover. It means that if the primary controller fails entirely, the backup controller will “kick in”. However, if a multi-path…
