Remember my last post about cpu masking ? Well, turns out that you can do it to a “template”. The only point you don’t need to do, is to mark the VM as a " template". You still can clone it and move it around and all that other stuff, but the good part is, that the cloned VM keeps the cpu mask set to the " template" 🤷 ...
Well, after a loooong time of trying to get the modules and all the other stuff (read: init-script for the guest daemon and modules) working, I think I’m about there. I finally fixed a long-standing issue, with the postinst/prerm scripts, and the tools should be about ready. Gonna try and send it Daniel Baumann’s way (that is the Debian Maintainer), for proper inclusion into Lenny. I (successfully) tried splitting the Xorg parts from the " normal" open-vm-tools, as I usually don’t want Xorg installed on any of my virtual machines. Thus leaving me with open-vm-tools, open-vm-modules and open-vm-toolbox (and open-vm-source) as a list of packages one could install.
Well, it’s been quite a while since most of the people last heard a word from me. The last few months I’ve been extremely busy with work-related tasks (and as a side-effect of that, didn’t want to spend much time in front of the computer after 9 hours of work). I also started spending more and more time in the gym, like nearly two hours every Tuesday and Thursday. I finally fixed our replication issues, we do now have a working! MySQL Multi-Master ( 1. Node, 2. Node -- bear in mind, this boxes are only serving MySQL and nothing else, so don’t use these configurations on mixed setups) Replication Setup as database back end for our TYPO3-vHosts. all the web nodes are now serving the content from a clustered, shared SAN volume (is that a good thing ? 😛 - don’t know yet …) our VI environment is getting more and more acceptance (even if you hear some complaints now and then, like “awww, damn that crap my 4GiB RAM, 2x3.0GHz Windows 2008 is running soooo choppy” - simple answer, don’t use Windows Server 2008 and/or Windows Vista!) I finished prepping our VM templates (at least the Windows ones) we’re still putting together the plans on whether or not invest into a VDI solution. The next few weeks are gonna be as frantic as the weeks before, I still have to migrate a lot of TYPO3 installations to our new cluster (which sadly needs time, as we need to wait for DNS changes to propagate). Honestly, I might be ending up extending the SAN volume for the MySQL data storage, as even with only three somewhat busy sites, the binary log of the last 5 days is about 2GiB in size. And we still have ~ 20 other busy sites on a separate box. ...
Well, as it is Saturday and I’m having lots of time (whereas I’d usually spend it working), I thought I’d give Windows Server 2008 a try. What interested me most, is the Windows Server 2008 " Server Core Installations", as it’s supposed to lower the security risk (as there is no Internet Explorer, no Explorer nothing running by default, only a simply cmd.exe). As one of my co-workers requested me to upload the Standard/Enterprise/Datacenter DVD (which he got through our Microsoft Select 6.0(?) agreement) to our ISO’ VMFS, I had the DVD already at hand. As for that, I really love the feature set of VMware. ...
Ok, so after my first day yesterday after a rather long vacation I today wanted to look at the problem that the Administrator password isn’t changed when using VirtulCenter’s clone customization functionality (which relies at least for Windows on sysprep). After a short googling, I stumbled upon this. Simple problem short … Don’t specify an Administrator password for the template. Then you should be able to change the Administrator password when cloning the template. It’s " should", as the VM’s are still updating. ...
We are still waiting for the money promised by the state and the country for our HBFG (again, it’s “Hochschulbauförderungsgesetz”), that hopefully is reducing or eliminating our storage/SAN problem we have currently. Right now we have to Cisco MDS9216 (that’s a 16-port 2GBps SAN-switch, two for redundancy), which means we only have 16 SAN-ports. That isn’t much, but still is to less, as we have like 30 machines or so, that really need access to the SAN, so we either end up unplugging some of them from the SAN or merge them onto some big machines (like our x366). ...
christel, you remember the mood-swings we were talking about ? I think I’m undergoing just another 😞 I’m currently pretty much pissed. Basically everything is pestering me currently (except #gentoo-dev and Gentoo work). Work just ripped another piece of me (hah, thanks VMware & BigBlue). I started the day with a ice cold shower (if I’m talking about ice cold it was ice cold), they’re currently replacing our old gas heating and unfortunately that means no warm water at all! arg
Now is again such a time in live, where you have the motivation or wish to just fade away. I’m just listening to Fort Minor - Where’d you go and thinking about the stuff Mike Shinoda is singing … I want you to know it’s a little fucked up, That I’m stuck here waitin’, no longer debatin’, Tired of sittin’ and hatin’ and makin’ these excuses, For while you’re not around, and feeling so useless, It seems one thing has been true all along, You don’t really know what you got ’til it’s gone. ...
I’m sitting in the S8 to Frankfurt Airport where I’ll switch to the ICE to Stuttgart to visit my cousins and my aunt. Linux Tag was quite amazing, I finally met some of the people behind OpenVZ (Kir and Kirill), saw a bit of Andrew Morton’s Kernel FAQ (Kir told us that) and met some people including Bertl, doener, derjohn, zeng, foo, … of the linux-vserver community. Both workshops were quite interesting and I learned a lot of things about openvz and it’s userland tools and linux-vserver (finally I understood the CPU Tokenbucket system). ...