You can easily determine the status of your cluster members from a simple command line / DOS shell. Just run the following command: cluster group Simple but useful. It is worth noting that the cluster server must be running on the system that you run the command from. –Himuraken
For anyone that is not a Linux command-line expert (myself included!) webmin is an invaluable tool. A very quick install of this allows advanced administration from any web browser that can access the IP address of the server. Version 1.480 is the current release. Check it out and you will be pleasently surprised… Instructions provided … Read more
Clearly Symantec is NOT open source. The solution to a common data backup problem can be found with open source tools however. Issue: Backup2Tape provided long backup windows and an unreliable media. Soloution must use open source tools and existing hardware. Solution: Ubuntu 9.04 (64-bit) NFS share running on Dell 2950 with six Seagate 1.5TB … Read more
Been working on a backup project and needed to use a NFS export as a backup to disk destination in Backup Exec. The best (read free) way to accomplish this is to setup Windows Services for Unix so that your server can map a network drive to the NFS export. Backup Exec does not allow … Read more
Sitting in on a Sonicwall technical today and thought that I would just rapid post anything that has value. To kick off I will share a URL that lists all of the WWAN devices that are supported in Sonicwall devices. The layout is nice because it lists per model / per connection / per provider. … Read more
Twitter has been running terribly for the past couple of days and I wasn’t really sure why. You can check on their status and updates by visiting this link. –Himuraken
Sitting in the Marriot World Center hotel in Orlando, FL tonight. Perched up in the back of the bar with a Long Island Ice Tea and the ball game on the big screen. I will be attending a Sonicwall Technical Day tomorrow which is being held here in the hotel. I am excited to see … Read more
Drove up to Tampa today to attend my first VMUG (VMware User Group) meet-up. The meeting was held at Southwest Florida Water Management District’s Tampa location and was really good. Representatives from SWFLWMD, VMware, EMC, Data Domain, Veeam!, and Symantec were present. The presentations were kicked off by the Senior System Administrator of SWFLWMD which … Read more