UPDATE: October 29, 2012 This article doesn’t work on Ubuntu 12.10, to use Ubuntu 12.10 please refer to my new article here. Openvswitch is a better way of managing your virtual networking stacks for KVM and Xen. This can be used instead of the bridge-utils package, and has the ability…
Adventures in ZFS: NexentaStor with Dell Poweredge R515 Onboard Broadcom NIC
So recently I dealt with a rather aggravating problem. Basically I had a couple of Poweredge R515’s to be built with NexentaStor Enterprise, which would not get a valid network configuration. The Problem During the initial setup via the console… I selected bnx0 as the primary and set it to…
Microsoft Online Support: The Verbal Blue Screen of Death
So today we had the need to call Microsoft Online Support, we were definitely suprised, to experience what I have coined as the “Verbal Blue Screen of Death”. So apparently, if you are in need of Microsoft Online Support then tough cookies. This was as of 2PM on March 20,…
Equallogic: Remove Volume Snapshot Reserve
So if you purchased a Equallogic and put it into production one of the first things that you notice is that your xTB didn’t go as far as you originally planned, this is because Equallogic by default comes with a 100% snapshot reserve on all volumes that you create. This…