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For remote graphical access to a linux server I generally prefer to use NX aka nomachine, however I’ve been doing admin work on some shared servers that I don’t want to install NX on for a few different reasons. All of the other admins here use VNC with SSH tunneling to access these boxen so…
I’m now a VCP5! The test was hard and I barely passed it, but I passed it on my first try which most people don’t do. The exam was pretty difficult, with a lot of specific and hardly worded questions. Lots of “Pick 3 answers that apply” kinds of questions. I recommend just taking VMware’s…
Creating a new volume group, adding a disk to it and making it usable Scan HBA for new LUN’s: #echo ‘- – -‘ > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/scan #fdisk /dev/sda5 (or /dev/mapper/mpathx if multipathing) … create new partition, type lvm (8e), write changes to disk #partprobe #pvscan #pvdisplay #kpartx -a /dev/mapper/mpathX if it’s a multipathed device using dm-mulipath,…
#scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sdx If it’s a vm #cat /proc/scsi/scsi if it’s a /dev/cciss device(HP SAS) then use #cciss_id /dev/cciss/cXdX -bb
The purpose of this article is explain how to enable round robin and multipathing on an ESXi4 cluster. Our environment consists of: 48 HP BL460cG1 servers running ESXi4 embedded with qlogic fc mezzanine cards(2 hba’s/host) 3 C7000 Chassis with VC-Enet modules and Cisco MDS9124 switches SAN fabric connected to an HP EVA 8400 These instructions…
Torrent clients on Linux just don’t seem to stack up to uTorrent. I’ve tried all of them and deluge seems to be the most configurable and feature rich that I’ve found. Yes I’ve tried transmission, ktorrent, rtorrent and several others I don’t care to recall. My primary computer at home is a Linux Mint Helena…
Welcome to inbaudwetrust.com This will be my technical blog where I document the trials and tribulations of my job as a Linux Systems Administrator for a large healthcare technology corporation. I’ll use this as a personal blog as well, so really anything goes. Topics will include but not be limited to: RHEL, OEL, Oracle, VMWare,…