This is not a simple task, as there are few things which should actually happen for it to work. First – the switch port should support vlan tagging (of course, right?) I have used vlan2 for “external” network, and vlan3 for “internal” network. My configuration looks like this: ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes ISALIAS=no…
This is relevant for Redhat EL 3 and 4, and any other compatible system not using “yum”. RHEL5 uses “yum”, and its RPM system does not include the “–aid” flag, which we require so much. 1. Place all the available RPMS (I assume these are the installation medias, combined) in a single directory – for…
I have been struggling with RH Cluster 4 with VMware fencing device. This was also a good experiance with qdiskd, the Disk Quorum directive and utilization. I have several conclusions out of this experience. First, the configuration, as is: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <cluster alias=”alpha_cluster” config_version=”17″ name=”alpha_cluster”> <quorumd interval=”1″ label=”Qdisk1″ min_score=”3″ tko=”10″ votes=”3″> <heuristic interval=”2″ program=”ping vm-server…
For the latest (and currently whole) ks.cfg I use, check this link. I have extended the logic there, and got the following out of it. Showing only the %pre section: %pre # By Ez-Aton http://www.tournament.org.il/run for i in `cat /proc/cmdline`; do echo $i >> /tmp/vars.tmp done grep “=” /tmp/vars.tmp > /tmp/vars # Parse command line….
While DL140 G3 is quite a new piece of hardware, RHEL4, even with the later updates, is rather old. When you decide to install RHEL4 on a DL140 G3 server, my first recommendation is this: if you decide to use the embedded SATA-II RAID controller – don’t. This is a driver-based RAID, much like the…
Kickstart is a great method of hands-free installation of RHEL/Centos (and other derived systems). Its power is in its easy interface and rather powerful %post scripting directives. Its weakness is in its lack of flexibility where it comes to package selection and various custom actions. On some cases, companies use web interface (usually home-made) which…
