EricSeale - 9th nonblog

Home virtualization strategy

Sunday, 6. December 2009, 06:29:21

I've been using ESXi at the office for a while but in the next couple I expect to get a ton of time on Xen.

VMware Fusion 2.x on my iMac is wonderful for having a half dozen VMs but I cant really run them in parallel and have a nice experience.

Therefore starting a project to build an ESXi box at home.

First step was to get an old Intel Pro 1000 NIC for my commodity hardware. Easy enough. 15$ on ebay and now I'm rocking gigE.

Next I need to bring up hosts.

Thinking I'll install FreeBSD 8 and rsync over 500GB of junk from an old hard drive. Only real issue is that my two hard drives do not have a host. I suppose I can boot off a thumb drive and shove the data overnight. Not sure how well this will work over 2.4Ghz wifi. Perhaps I need to mount the drives in MacOSX.

Second step will be to P2V my Dad's old Dell notebook over the Xmas Holiday when he's in town.

That my saturate my storage.

So many questions.

If I still have leftover space I would like to P2V my lady's netbook as a form of backup.

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Karmic

Friday, 20. November 2009, 20:35:22

karmic

This is karmic... notice anything?

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:17:31:4d:d3:03  
          inet6 addr: fe80::217:31ff:fe4d:d303/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:809 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:84938 (84.9 KB)  TX bytes:94400 (94.4 KB)
          Interrupt:20 Base address:0x6000

eth0 lost it's IP

WTF?

Had lots of problems at work mixing e1000e chipsets but this takes the cake

/etc/init.d/networking restart will bring back my IP

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Virtualization is a mess

Friday, 20. November 2009, 20:01:48

XEN, Hypervisor

This year I've had a look at ESXi, VMware Server, Oracle VM, VirtualBox, and Fusion 3

VirtualBox and Fusion are brilliant for DEMOs and prototypes but for real production servers it's not a solution.

I can say without a doubt VMware Server, the Xen Live CD and Oracle's VM are a total waste of time.

Sun's LDOM is the only choice that actually works well and sadly that choice is only for Niagara CPUs

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My janky Nagios configuration

Saturday, 10. October 2009, 19:18:09

nagios

DNS are up... the check_dns command is working but they drop ICMP so Nagios still shows down.

I need to spend a lot more time with Nagios2 then I'll try nagios3

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Spending time in OpenSolaris

Tuesday, 29. September 2009, 01:12:12

opensolaris

I'm still really excited to spend time with ZFS and OpenSolaris but my install was old... looks like upgrading is easier these days.

Having no idea what to try I found this online

sudo pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org

eseale@opensolaris:~$ sudo pfexec pkg image-update
WARNING: pkg(5) appears to be out of date, and should be updated before
running image-update.

Please update pkg(5) using 'pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg' and then retry
the image-update.

eseale@opensolaris:~$ sudo pkg install SUNWipkg
DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
Completed                                    3/3     113/113     0.49/0.49 

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Removal Phase                                  28/28 
Install Phase                                  12/12
Update Phase                                 227/227 
eseale@opensolaris:~$ sudo pkg image-update
Creating Plan \

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