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XenServer 6.2 with Software RAID

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 # […]

JWplayer iframe codes for Wowza

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>

Removing RAID metadata

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 […]

Now Playing code example

Now Playing Live Example Now Playing HTML Code <iframe src=”http://http://199.58.163.11/rr/now_playing.php” width=”325″></iframe> Requests Popup HTML Code

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Syncing User Filesystems Between Two Cpanel Servers

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 […]

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Syncing All MySQL Databases Between two Cpanel Servers

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 […]

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MySQL Relationships (JOIN explained)

The visual diagrams still confuse me after so many years and I always forget…so here it is: INNER JOIN gets all records from one table that have some related entry in a second table LEFT JOIN gets all records from the LEFT linked table but if you have selected some columns from the RIGHT table, […]

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Remount read/write in single user mode

If /etc/fstab is correct, you can simply type: # mount -n -o remount / If /etc/fstab is wrong, you must give the device name and possibly the type, too: e.g. # mount -n -o remount -t ext4 /dev/sda3 /

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Pacemaker / Corosync / DRBD Cheatsheet

Monitor the status: crm_mon Migrate all resources to another node: crm resource migrate rg_main <fqdn_node_name> Take node offline and online (be careful, this sets a ‘prefer’ to the other node to force a transition, which may or may not get removed afterwards): crm node standby crm node online Start and stop all resources (warning, this […]

Exchange 2012 Allow Relay from IP

Enable mail relaying from a specific IP or range of IPs. 1. Exchange Management Console -> Server Configuration -> Hub Transport 2. New Receive Connector * Set remote network to the IP or range you want to allow relay from (default is any IP so watch out here) * “Externally Secured” authentication * “Exchange Servers” […]

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