In an earlier post I went through the process of coming up with a solution to be able to test an Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 migration using VMs. In order to simulate a multi-site AD environment I wanted to use Vyatta based routers to create my network infrastructure. In this post I’ll actually walk [...]
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[Part 2 of this series which involves the actual configuration of the Vyatta routers is now up here -crt] At work we’ve recently made the decision to migrate to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003. While we do have an environment that we can use for some testing of the migration it doesn’t mimic our production environment [...] [Note: I've started another series of posts using Vyatta in VMware for a more complex environment that starts with this one- crt (2/20/2010)]
After finally getting around to clearing space in the garage and getting an old Dell PowerEdge 2650 I’d acquired up and running with VMware ESXi I started [...] I had a little time today and needed to mentally switch gears so I took a look again at the 3i storage script for Nagios and made some changes to it to clean it up a little bit. I also made clones…er …versions rather…. for monitoring CPU status, memory status, and sensor data (i.e. fan [...] In earlier posts when I mentioned the use of IPMI I don’t think I ever circled back around on where we stood with that. While we can get some information about the status of the hardware via IPMI I haven’t been able to figure out how to get at the array controller to get the [...] Okay now that we have a user that’s set up for access to IPMI what can we find out about our server from a monitoring perspective? If run ipmitool -h we get a list of commands we can run.
Several of these “commands” have sub commands. For example the [...] Setting up IPMI via the DRAC We’ll walk through the steps to set up the server for monitoring via IPMI using the DRAC. It is supposedly possible to do this without the DRAC, but I haven’t had a reason to try to do that yet. Log in the DRAC (ex: https://<RAC IP [...] In one of my projects at work, we’ve been debating whether to use ESX 3i (installable) or ESX 3.5 on a large number of Dell servers we’re getting ready to deploy. The advantage of 3i is we can treat the host as more of an appliance (i.e. hopefully fewer patches/maintenance). Downside is monitoring. Since [...] |
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