After facing issue after issue with Idera/R1soft’s PXE and CD-ROM boot media — specifically, ancient kernels which are unable to obtain network connectivity on modern hardware, I decided to roll my own PXE boot image including the R1soft agent and a few other tools with the latest Debian stable. It turned out to be easier […]
In order for grub to ‘see’ virtual disks, you have to tell it about them with the ‘device’ command: # grub grub> device (hd0) /dev/xvda grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit Keep in mind, installing grub on the MBR is not always necessary with Xen PV guests, but is highly useful for V2P […]
Historically XenServer does not support software RAID out-the-box, and this is unchanged in the latest 6.2 release. We can convert it to RAID after installation. First we set up the 2nd disk by copying the partition tables whilst enabling a degraded RAID on it, then copy data over with custom initrd. sgdisk -R/dev/sdb /dev/sda # […]
On a new XenServer deployment EXT storage is default. Although EXT is nice (ability to manipulate raw VHD files and use sparse storage), LVM is faster and more stable. Here is how to switch between storage modes (be sure to back up all data first, as this will wipe everything in the repo): Use ‘xe […]
From time to time the du command doesn’t match up with df. This is due to deleted files that are still held open by a process. You can total the deleted but ‘still open’ file usage: lsof | awk ‘/deleted/ {sum+=$7} END {print sum}’ Or, to simply list all the files and their processes: lsof […]
Allows easy embedding of on-demand and live media from a Wowza server using Iframes and a PHP server capable of .htaccess rewrite rules. http://djlab.com/stuff/jwplayer.zip Example of embed code: <iframe src=”http://mysite.com/jwplayer/Sportswire/sw-584-1.mp4?autoPlay=0&poster=http://mysite.com/images/poster.jpg” frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” width=”432px” height=”320px”></iframe>
Sometimes a hardware RAID controller or fakeraid (BIOS) can leave metadata that makes it impossible to install Windows or Linux, or it installs correctly, but causes a kernel panic or a 0xb7 blue screen error on the first boot. The only method I could find to delete the metadata *quickly* is to zero out the […]
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After doing a WHM multi-account copy, you may want to refresh the users home directories (including email and web files). This one liner uses rsync over SSH to do a quick sync of only changed files, emails, and website files. Run these commands on the NEW server. First you need to create a list of […]
After you do a WHM multi-site transfer, you may want to resync all the MySQL databases before doing a DNS change. Here’s a quick and easy way to sync each Cpanel user’s databases on the new Cpanel server. After manually setting up a remote mysql root user on the original server (and opening a firewall […]