Suddenly world around becomes very strange. First Oracle is breaking it’s promise to keep OpenSolaris running. Then BBC Future Media & Technology is announcing more departments relocated from London to North… Now I just received sad news that Wesabe is closing down. So far I see that IT related stuff is going downhill… However there [...]
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Seagate HD is not good
After reading some posts on Server Room I’ve decided to do some scrubbing on my zfs pools … just in case ( done it a few times some long time ago ) The I’ve noticed that one pool takes ages to scrub: state: ONLINE scrub: scrub in progress for 0h59m, 40.72% done, 1h26m to go [...]
Working for the BBC
It looks like the fortune has turned to me and I’ve got a job at BBC World Service Future Media. Doing Unix systems only, no MS. So far, I love it!
Installing OpenSolaris from LiveCD with drivers
Installing OpenSolaris on HP SmartArray Solaris and OpenSolaris does not include SmartArray drivers, these need to be download from HP Website After that, extract the .pkg directory onto a USB stick Then start the LiveCD, open terminal and type : pfexec touch /ADD_DRV_IGNORE_ROOT_BASEDIR after that install the driver : pfexec pkgadd -d path/to/pkgdir Now you [...]
OpenSolaris 2009.6 out
I was waiting whole Monday to get my hands on a new release and at the end of it I got it! Very , very long wait it was. Pity I don’t have time to play with it until I’m back from holiday. Even then I will not have much time strait away… I am [...]
Seagate Failure
It looks like S.M.A.R.T has told me that drive in my server is failing. Actually I’ve noticed that when my NFS server just stopped sharing data from it. Still, it was a bad sign, quick look at logs and clear failure messages. Cool. Short trip to a highstreet shop – Maplin and I’ve grabbed a [...]
VirtualBox and Sun Unified Storage
A glimpse of VirtualBox and Sun Unified Storage Simulator. SUSS looks good, Only problem I had was with IPv6, donno if it was due to VBox or SUSS but when I’ve set a static IPv6 it was crashing the interface. Other than that, good stuff, will need to test both products more.
Baptop gets para virtual and another trie with Nexenta
14 Sep 2008 at 22:22
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After doing converting one of my servers (baptop) from a laptop to Virtual Machine on Xen with full virtualization it didn’t work too fast. Virtual environment was too penalizing. It was less reactive and when calling ( it hosts Asterisk for VoIP ) sometime you we could hear each other for a few seconds. Now, [...]
HP Media Vault Retired
After, not much over 1 year, I am retiring my Media Vault . Having a network attached storage is a briliant idea. I am staying with it. It’s just the Media Vault product. Slow death. After half a year, a small fan has broken and since then it became loud, I have contacted HP to [...]
Monitoring your systems
If you ever heard about monitoring systems it was usually some expensive closed source software or the open source package. I have little experience with the first type. For some thoughts about the second type, read more
