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iSCSI quick-start guide.

September 14th, 2009 Chris Ganderton No comments

I had to configure an iSCSI target for testing purposes, the steps I followed are below. This assumes that you have the tgtadm software installed, and that you are making use of LVM. 1. create the backing volume in lvm we have one volume group, called vg01, if you want to see what volume groups [...]

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xen vcpu pinning defaults aren’t ideal

September 1st, 2009 Chris Ganderton No comments

I noticed an oddity the other day with a xen Domain0 host we have. There’s a cron scripted job that verifies the RPM database and the RPM’s that are installed on the system, for some reason this job failed, but kept the process open, and kept spinning around trying to do it’s job. Now, I [...]

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