With some time to play on my hands, I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi v2 (512mb version). Wrote the Raspian Debian version to an SDCard and voila a small tiny linux PC powered by a USB cable? Yep. Started thinking what can I use this for? Well, turns out our cabinet in a datacenter has […]
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XenServer Boot errors from an ISO
Error: PM Error: Starting VM ‘Ubuntu 32’ – The bootloader for this VM returned an error — did the VM installation succeed? INVALID_SOURCE Unable to access a required file in the specified repository: file:///tmp/cdrom-repo-mRk5kz/install/vmlinuz. Open Xen server console. Run the following command #xe vm-list Note the uuid of your Virtual machine. Example: uuid ( RO) […]
Read More…Captive Portal bypass for Fortigate IOS7 Apple update
As it continues…Apple doesn’t give a hoot about how their changes affect everything around them. This time, captive portals stop working on many vendors wifi solutions including Cisco and in my case, Fortinet. Just after IOS 7 for Apple devices, we received reports on the Captive Portal not working. For anyone who doesn’t know what […]
Read More…Xenserver Love/Hate Part DUX
Yes, I purposely misspelled the topic! I left off with converting many ESXi VMware 4.1 Windows VM’s to Xenserver 62. All but one in particular would migrate and boot fine, however, upon a reboot or shutdown, the VM would BSOD with a winlogon.exe error specifically the file “VMUpgradeAtShutdownWXP.dll”. HUH? Doing some research *cough* Googling; found […]
Read More…XenSever and my love/hate
So, I’m officially moving away from VMware because they can’t seem to focus on their core technology in favor for Citrix XenServer. Pricing may have a little to do with it also. I have a slew of VMware 4.x VM’s to move to XenServer. Tried XenConvertor; disaster…so slooooow if I can channel a woman at […]
Read More…LinuxMint standing upgrade gone wrong
So impressed with LinuxMint 14 running Cinnamon on an older Sony VGN-NW240F Laptop; decided to upgrade to 15 “Olivia”. Ran through the necessary steps #apt-get update #apt-get dist-upgrade After several interruptions requesting Y/N questions, I answering Y to all and final reboot and DANG-IT! Many items missing, the login jacked; downloaded the 900MB ISO and […]
Read More…Multiple ISP Failover Routing…do you really know what you think you know?
I’ve run across many “network” admins out there and to be fair, many know what they’re doing on a basic level; but when it comes to network routing – the understanding is not understood? Assumption: Network layers; physical ie link detection are understood. For instance, the topic of failover or load-balance always enters a conversation. […]
Read More…Installing SSL Certs on TomCat Java/Linux (Go Daddy)
So our backup software self-assigned SSL Cert expired. Not having done an SSL in TomCat/Java proved a little challenging for the simple fact that there’s SO much information out there and HOWTO’s to make your mind spin. How do I know if it’s the right one or correct way to do it? Identify location of […]
Read More…LVM mounted USB Hard-drives
Mounting a Drive ie External Hard-drive via USB kit as LVM Plugging in a hard-drive may not automount. Come to find out, it has a couple LVM volumes. #pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sdb2 VolGroup2 lvm2 a- 230.1G 0 /dev/sdb3 VolGroup2 lvm2 a- 3.9G 0 The LV Name may not be active; so […]
Read More…Test driving LinuxMint
So I decided to test drive LinuxMint because Fedora just wasn’t working for me on a refurbed Sony VAIO laptop. So far it’s great; everything installed just “works”. Did run into a problem but it appears to be symptomatic with all Linux distros where disabling Wireless on a laptop places it in Airplane Mode. Issue […]
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