I recently acquired the Remote Management card for my HP Microserver, which allows remote KVM & power control, IPMI management and hardware monitoring through temperature & fan sensors. Note the extra connector on the card in addition to the standard PCI-e x1 connector which matches the dedicated slot on the Microserver motherboard. This presented a [...]
I had a utility server running RHEL 6.2 (I installed it as part of a RHEV evaluation process). However, I have no RHEL entitlements so am not able to get updates. So, I converted it to CentOS 6.2, with a little help from this post: yum clean all mkdir ~/centos cd ~/centos wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 wget [...]
CentOS 6 is now out so I can finally build up a new HP ProLiant Microserver that I purchased for a new home server. Amongst many new features, CentOS 6 ships a GRUB bootloader that can boot from a disk with a GUID Partition Table (GPT for short). Despite not having EFI, the HP BIOS [...]
Most of the servers I manage are 64-bit. I have one linode box that is 32-bit. I chose 32-bit because it has better memory usage than 64-bit, which is possibly important with a 512MB instance. This was probably a mistake as the management overhead involved with maintaining a 32-bit infrastructure for just one 32-bit machine [...]
DevOps Gurgaon Meetup : Some High octane gyan
With the clock striking 6 P.M. on the 12th of July, few geeks from MakeMyTrip were all set to brainstorm with some other fellow geeks from the DevOps community, for the first time in the Northern regio…
DevOps Gurgaon Meetup
Time Tuesday, July 12 2011 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location :
MakeMyTrip Office – Gurgaon
103 Udyog Vihar Phase I, Gurgaon – 122016, Haryana, India
Gurgaon, India
Come to DevOps Gurgaon Meetup to:-
- hang aroun…
I’ve been configuring some Dell servers today that have one of Dell’s MD3220 storage arrays attached. The servers were completely blank so they needed kickstarting with CentOS 5.x. Not a problem, just use the standard one that’s used for 99% of the servers. The problem that arises is the standard kickstart assumes the first disk [...]
If you have a UPS, it’s probably worth paying attention to the temperature reading if it reports such a thing. My APC Smart-UPS 1000VA suffered a failed battery which wasn’t totally unexpected given I had last replaced it about two years ago. While I was awaiting the replacement RBC6 battery, I had a poke about [...]
I’ve been quite keen on getting IPv6 connectivity to my hosts, although I’m currently lacking either a home internet package or hosted server where there is native connectivity. Thankfully there are enough free tunnel providers available which work fine as a workaround. I’m using SixXS for two tunnels; one to my home network and another [...]
I hit a weird issue today, I have Apache configured as a reverse proxy using mod_proxy_balancer which is a welcome addition in Apache 2.2.x. This is forwarding selected requests to more Apache instances running mod_perl, although this could be any sort of application layer, pretty standard stuff. With ProxyStatus enabled and pushing a reasonable amount [...]
