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Windows is *still* loading files
I’m moving the active directory server off of hardware on to the hypervisor. I think if I boot the drive as USB I can install the virtio disk drivers on the system. Fingers crossed! Only thing is that this first boot off of a USB device takes *sooooo* long!
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I’m back on the internet 6 it seems.
cjac@foxtrot:/usr/src/deb/strongswan-5.1.0$ ping6 -c 5 google.com | tail -3 — google.com ping statistics — 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 65.235/74.957/103.039/14.122 ms go go gadget ipsec
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Vacation Tasks
So, I’m taking vacation this week and next. Here’s a (partial) list of tasks that are left to do: Visit BC for NANOG 55 Work with Threshold Communications to verify interop is working as well as it seems to be Make sure the UTC has acknowledged receipt of our 2012 filing Complete move of storage…
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Ohai! It looks like I’m back online!
I’m working on my disk array today. The plan is to take the data off of a 6-disk RAID-6 and put it onto three 4-disk RAID-4s.
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UW Hypervisor looks stable
The new hardware looks like it’s reliable. The one I swapped out 10 days ago crashed every 3 days or so for reasons I couldn’t discern. I changed that one for a spare I had laying around and have been hosting my blog on the machine to exercise it. So far, no crashes, and a…
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Migrating VMs from pure paravirt hypervisor to hvm-capable hypervisor
I’m also changing all of my disk layouts from being block devices per each guest partition to one block device hypervisor side per each /dev/xvd* guest side. The block devices all live on a single storage server and are being served via iSCSI. One of the guests is making use of AoE, but I’m thinking…
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Replaced hypervisor
The system which was hosting this blog had a tendency to go down every few days. I swapped it out for a spare yesterday. Let’s see if it stays up. The hypervisor hosts this web server, a mysql server and an SKS pool member, all of which are built on top of Squeeze.
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xend xml parsing failure – solution
I got this error when starting xend after a filesystem crash: [2011-12-09 11:05:04 5590] ERROR (SrvDaemon:349) Exception starting xend (not well-formed (invalid token): line 3, column 0) It sounded like an XML parsing error, but the stack trace in the log didn’t say which file it had loaded. It turns out that it was trying…
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And with that, the keyserver is back online
http://keyserver.colliertech.org:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xBA27A83C&op=vindex Go go gadget interwebs. Now to sync back up and get into good standings on the status page.
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F5 opens second International Technology Center in London
Very cool. Presided over by my friend and the VP of our group, Erik Giesa. Notably lacking is the inclusion of a picture of Steve Mitchell’s smiling face. The first of our ITCs is here in Seattle. We’ve got some space on our internet site dedicated to them: http://www.f5.com/solutions/resources/technology-center/