Re: [CentOS-virt] (KVM) How can I migrate VM in a non shared storage environment?

2010-06-28 Thread Christopher Hunt
+1 for dd + nc over ssh if necessary. This process can and probably will saturate your ethernet interface, so depending upon the amount of traffic the box pushes on the public interface the size of the partition and other factors, sometimes i add a crossover cable between unused

Re: [CentOS-virt] (KVM) How can I migrate VM in a non shared storage environment?

2010-06-28 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
If you do it often, you might consider listening for ssh connections on a separate port and using tc to keep things from getting out of hand: http://linux.die.net/man/8/tc Cheers, C.J. On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 09:17 -0700, Christopher Hunt wrote: +1 for dd + nc over ssh if necessary.

[CentOS-es] pregunta de LDAP

2010-06-28 Thread samuel correa
Hola a todos. Tal ves este no sea el lugar para esta pregunta, pero depronto pueden saber. Tengo un servidor LDAP montado sobre un Centos 5.2 Tengo clientes en ubuntu 9.10 que validan su inicio de sesion contra el servidor LDAP anteriormente mencionado. En ese servidor CENTOS-LDAP tengo un

Re: [CentOS-es] pregunta de LDAP

2010-06-28 Thread samuel correa
aahh.. ok. 1. la respuesta a tu pregunta es SI. el parámetro del que hablo es el nombre del usuario que se acaba de loguear. Pues la verdad no sabia de las variables de ambiente $USER y $LOGNAME. Me parece una excelente idea. La verdad el uso del servidor LDAP era por que no se me ocurria como

[CentOS-es] Usuarios bloqueados.... ?

2010-06-28 Thread All DigitAll
Hola a t...@s Hace 2 meses instalé CentOS en la red de la oficina. Creé varios usuarios y debo hacer copias de seguridad de cada usuario en el servidor. Obviamente yo soy el Administrador, aunque apenas llevo 10 meses usando Linux, razón por la cual necesito ayuda. Todo funcionaba EXCELENTE

Re: [CentOS] Samba and (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-28 Thread RedShift
On 06/25/10 22:48, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Miguel Medalhamiguelmeda...@sapo.pt wrote: I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to samba, using windows, filesnames with (double quotes) in them become gibberish on the windows client.

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Tsuyoshi Nagata
Hi, (2010年06月27日 03:15), Susan Day wrote: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.6beta2-py2.6.egg/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py No-way to upgrade to latest python(2.6), MySQL(5.1), sqlalchemy(0.6). in public centos site.Upstream policy keep running with older version until 2014.

Re: [CentOS] wine 1.2 on centos

2010-06-28 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Janez Kosmrlj postnali...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi, Has anyone tried the latest wine 1.2 RC on CentOS 5.5. We have some applications that don't work with the latest stable release. They require at least 1.1.34, but i would like to try 1.2. If someone has

[CentOS] centos 5.5 on optiplex 745

2010-06-28 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
Hi, we have some old dell optiplex 745 machines which have the Intel 965q chipset. The problem is, that they freeze as soon as the system tries to start the X system. It happens even before any log is written. This happens almost every time (for some reason it sometimes work, but 99% it fails).

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
2010/6/28 Tsuyoshi Nagata nagata...@jp.fujitsu.com: Hi, Your answer is just install MySQL5.1 from source code.(make install) next time requies B, B requires C,... That's a horrible idea. At least use the package management system so that dependencies can be tracked properly. Installing

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Susan Day suzieprogram...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; I've got MySQLdb installed (bridge to Python) and I can't figure out how to upgrade it. I did a find and got these paths:

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS on commercial product.

2010-06-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 02:15:46PM +0900, Shinobu Takasugi wrote: Hello, Thank you Jerry. I think FreeBSD is good OS too. But we prefer CentOS for compatibility with Red Hat. I use both.I like FreeBSD somewhat better, but because of the closeness to RHEL, some things are more

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Warren Young
On 6/25/2010 8:33 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: - VMware Server seems like it's EOL, even though vmware hasn't specifically said so yet Given that there are known serious bugs in 2.0.2[*] and that release is now 8 months old, that seems plausible to me. But another plausible explanation is that

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:54:49AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: 2010/6/28 Tsuyoshi Nagata nagata...@jp.fujitsu.com: Your answer is just install MySQL5.1 from source code.(make install) That's a horrible idea. At least use the package management system so that dependencies can be tracked

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:25:59AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 6/25/2010 8:33 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: - VMware Server seems like it's EOL, even though vmware hasn't specifically said so yet Given that there are known serious bugs in 2.0.2[*] and that release is now 8 months old, that

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Warren Young
On 6/28/2010 7:34 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: If you look on their site, they clearly specify that they do not offer a paid support option for VMware Server, that it's community supported only. Does that seem like an attitude towards a product they plan to update? It fits completely with a

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: On 6/25/2010 8:33 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: - VMware Server seems like it's EOL, even though vmware hasn't specifically said so yet Given that there are known serious bugs in 2.0.2[*] and that release is now 8 months old,

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Whit Blauvelt w...@transpect.com wrote: But seriously, aside from the nice theory about how each package management system cures all dependency problems (which isn't 100% true), how many people have actually found themselves in trouble from, say, building their

[CentOS] Can't install Centos with DVD on KVM.

2010-06-28 Thread cliff here
Subject line explains most of it I'm trying to install Centos from a dvd iso, that has been verified on KVM (Fedora 13) box. Virtual machine boots, and will launch anaconda and will test the media, but on the next step after that it says it can't find CD media.

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:58:45AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Susan Day suzieprogram...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; I've got MySQLdb installed (bridge to Python) and I can't figure out how to upgrade it. I did a find and got these paths:

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread guillaume
Why would one use vmware Server 2.x when ESXi is available free of charge, stable, small footprint, ... ? We have about 60 vmware machines here, about 20 of them already converted to ESXi and running fine. I would never think about going back to Server 2.x or even GSX, especially when using

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Whit Blauvelt w...@transpect.com wrote: (Wouldn't it be nice if CentOS had 2.6.5 instead 2.4.3? Python improved dramatically between those two. My systems all get Python 2.6.5 alongside 2.4.3 because (a) 2.6.5 has a lot of useful features I'm not going to

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 8:25 AM, Warren Young wrote: On 6/25/2010 8:33 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: - VMware Server seems like it's EOL, even though vmware hasn't specifically said so yet Given that there are known serious bugs in 2.0.2[*] and that release is now 8 months old, that seems plausible to me.

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:49:21AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: It actually counts for probably 20-30% of all the support necessary on the irc channels with people trying to update php/mysql or similar from source. A large part of that problem is that people are asking for support in the wrong

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Warren Young
On 6/28/2010 7:59 AM, guillaume wrote: Why would one use vmware Server 2.x when ESXi is available free of charge, stable, small footprint, ... ? I've thought about it, but it's not really the right thing for us. Our VM host has some special hardware in it, driven by custom software which runs

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 9:46 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:49:21AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: It actually counts for probably 20-30% of all the support necessary on the irc channels with people trying to update php/mysql or similar from source. A large part of that problem is that

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Whit Blauvelt w...@transpect.com wrote: Sanity here is relative. If you go to the main support channels for stuff like Apache or PHP or Python or Postfix or whatever, and you're having trouble because of some bug that they fixed literally years ago, but which

Re: [CentOS] Yum archive for PHP greater than 5.2.1 for CentOS 5.4?

2010-06-28 Thread kOoLiNuS
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Whether I like it or not I need to get a version of PHP that is greater than 5.2.1 http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en +1 with EPEL this is what I use on my systems too (but disable the repo after installation since they update fast) --

Re: [CentOS] Yum archive for PHP greater than 5.2.1 for CentOS 5.4?

2010-06-28 Thread Baird, Josh
Check the centosextra's repo. Josh From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of kOoLiNuS Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 10:54 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum archive for PHP greater than 5.2.1 for CentOS 5.4? Joseph L. Casale

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: On 6/28/2010 7:59 AM, guillaume wrote: Why would one use vmware Server 2.x when ESXi is available free of charge, stable, small footprint, ... ? I've thought about it, but it's not really the right thing for us. Our VM

Re: [CentOS] Yum archive for PHP greater than 5.2.1 for CentOS 5.4?

2010-06-28 Thread Baird, Josh
I'm sorry, I meant the 'c5-testing' repo. From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Baird, Josh Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 10:57 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum archive for PHP greater than 5.2.1 for CentOS 5.4? Check the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On 6/28/2010 9:46 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:49:21AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: snip No, the fact that your ability to 'yum update' and have the right thing happen is broken is a big problem regardless of who/where you ask for help. Even if you

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/28/10 8:57 AM, Ross Walker wrote: Then give VirtualBox a whirl. Fully supported, works and some say performs better then VMware Server. I second the emotion on VBox, its a nice piece of work. Read the license carefully, however. Its no longer free for use as a server in a

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:06:43AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: I second the emotion on VBox, its a nice piece of work. Read the license carefully, however. Its no longer free for use as a server in a business environment, only free for 'personal' use. Larry needs a new boat. They

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 10:15 AM, Warren Young wrote: On 6/28/2010 7:59 AM, guillaume wrote: Why would one use vmware Server 2.x when ESXi is available free of charge, stable, small footprint, ... ? I've thought about it, but it's not really the right thing for us. Our VM host has some special

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:48:48AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:49:21AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: No, the fact that your ability to 'yum update' and have the right thing happen is broken is a big problem regardless of who/where you ask for

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/28/10 9:19 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:06:43AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: I second the emotion on VBox, its a nice piece of work. Read the license carefully, however. Its no longer free for use as a server in a business environment, only free for

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 11:24 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: No, the fact that your ability to 'yum update' and have the right thing happen is broken is a big problem regardless of who/where you ask for help. Even if you break it yourself, it is bad that it is broken. As much as I would rather do something

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 28, 2010, at 12:40 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 06/28/10 9:19 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:06:43AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: I second the emotion on VBox, its a nice piece of work. Read the license carefully, however. Its no longer

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-28-2010 6:34 AM Whit Blauvelt spake the following: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:25:59AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 6/25/2010 8:33 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: - VMware Server seems like it's EOL, even though vmware hasn't specifically said so yet Given that there are known serious bugs in

[CentOS] Upgrading MySQL

2010-06-28 Thread Susan Day
Hi; I'm trying to install django and got this error: django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.1 So then I tried yum upgrade mysql and got this: No Packages marked for Update Please advise. TIA, Susan

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 06/28/2010 10:15 AM, Scott Silva wrote: on 6-28-2010 6:34 AM Whit Blauvelt spake the following: If you look on their site, they clearly specify that they do not offer a paid support option for VMware Server, that it's community supported only. Does that seem like an attitude towards a

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 12:39 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: At this point VM Server is in the 'if it breaks you get to keep all the pieces' mode. Like just about all software, although you might get the chance for a refund on what you paid if you can prove there is a problem with advertised capabilities.

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdbyg

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:58:14AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: That's why I always thoroughly log all stuff installed by hand, along with extra configuration steps taken with RPM-installed items, and make sure the log's someplace where the next person can find it. In our case we maintain

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQL

2010-06-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/06/2010 18:21, Susan Day wrote: Hi; I'm trying to install django and got this error: django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.1 So then I tried yum upgrade mysql and got this: You should go and talk about this in the django

[CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdbyg

2010-06-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Y'know, I sorta like that idea - say, a script or program that you can hand it info, such as if you've just built PHP the way I mentioned, and have it be added to the rpmdb. That would also let you know if you did a yum updgrade, and if a newer

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdbyg

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 1:01 PM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: That's why I always thoroughly log all stuff installed by hand, along with extra configuration steps taken with RPM-installed items, and make sure the log's someplace where the next person can find it. In our case we maintain wikis for this sort of

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdbyg

2010-06-28 Thread m . roth
R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Y'know, I sorta like that idea - say, a script or program that you can hand it info, such as if you've just built PHP the way I mentioned, and have it be added to the rpmdb. That would also let you know if you did a yum

Re: [CentOS] Dual nw card problem again

2010-06-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-27-2010 2:20 PM Jussi Hirvi spake the following: I have had problems like this before. Probably there is something important that I don't know about routing. Let me introduce to you Lasso2, a CentOS 4 www server that has been working perfectly well for years. Now I added a second

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdbyg

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 1:43 PM, R P Herrold wrote: All RPM needs is for people to read and use the tools, and all this is done well presently What's the right approach with RPM to have multiple versions of an application installed simultaneously? Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to

Re: [CentOS] Can't install Centos with DVD on KVM.

2010-06-28 Thread cliff here
still stumped. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:51 AM, cliff here c4iff...@gmail.com wrote: Subject line explains most of it I'm trying to install Centos from a dvd iso, that has been verified on KVM (Fedora 13) box. Virtual machine boots, and will launch anaconda and will test the media,

[CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdbyg

2010-06-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: R P Herrold wrote: and this random guessing and recordatation to pollute the RPM database varies from ** and ** is better than using a package built from a pre-defined recipe driven by a .spec file, just how? Well, when it insists on building in

[CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
Has anybody tried or knows if it is possible to create a MD RAID1 device using networked iSCSI devices like those created using OpenFiler? The idea I'm thinking of here is to use two OpenFiler servers with physical drives in RAID 1, to create iSCSI virtual devices and run CentOS guest VMs off the

[CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdbyg

2010-06-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: On 6/28/2010 1:43 PM, R P Herrold wrote: All RPM needs is for people to read and use the tools, and all this is done well presently What's the right approach with RPM to have multiple versions of an application installed simultaneously? stow,

Re: [CentOS] Can't install Centos with DVD on KVM.

2010-06-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/06/2010 20:12, cliff here wrote: still stumped. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:51 AM, cliff here c4iff...@gmail.com Virtual machine boots, and will launch anaconda and will test the media, but on the next step after that it says it can't find CD media. How about if you dont verify

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/06/2010 20:13, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Has anybody tried or knows if it is possible to create a MD RAID1 device using networked iSCSI devices like those created using OpenFiler? I dont use openfiler, but I run a mdraid-10 ( which isnt raid10 ), off locally mounted, remote storage

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 28/06/2010 20:13, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Has anybody tried or knows if it is possible to create a MD RAID1 device using networked iSCSI devices like those created using OpenFiler? I dont use openfiler, but I run a mdraid-10 ( which

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/06/2010 20:31, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I haven't tried it yet, still researching on which way to go (looked into Lustre, then glusterFS, then now this). Coincidentally, I just Not sure what you are trying to do here. Lustre, glusterfs, gfs etc solve a different problem than imported

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
I dont see why not. But you dont dont need openfilter to give you iscsi capability. CentOS-5.1+ has had the ability to export an iscsi target itself with all the tooling built in. AFAIK, Openfiler is CentOS/rPath and has Web-based administration tool, this why some people use it. --

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 2:50 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 28/06/2010 20:31, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I haven't tried it yet, still researching on which way to go (looked into Lustre, then glusterFS, then now this). Coincidentally, I just Not sure what you are trying to do here. Lustre, glusterfs, gfs

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQL

2010-06-28 Thread Jakub Jedelský
2010/6/28 Susan Day suzieprogram...@gmail.com Hi; I'm trying to install django and got this error: django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.1 So then I tried yum upgrade mysql and got this: No Packages marked for Update Please

Re: [CentOS] PHP version [SOLVED]

2010-06-28 Thread Steve Lindemann
Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 19:16, Steve Lindemann st...@marmot.org wrote: [...] ...or directions for upgrading PHP from 5.1 to 5.2 on 64-bit (I found directions for 32-bit)? open /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo in your prefered editor and write:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/06/2010 20:55, Les Mikesell wrote: I think he is looking for redundant, failover remote storage (i.e. mirrored copies from different iscsi hosts). Sort of like DRBD but with both copies remote. I think is should work but the timing might be tricky on retries vs. failure on the iscsi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 28/06/2010 20:31, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I haven't tried it yet, still researching on which way to go (looked into Lustre, then glusterFS, then now this). Coincidentally, I just Not sure what you are trying to do here. Lustre,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 28/06/2010 20:55, Les Mikesell wrote: I think he is looking for redundant, failover remote storage (i.e. mirrored copies from different iscsi hosts). Sort of like DRBD but with both copies remote. I think is should work but the timing

Re: [CentOS] Can't install Centos with DVD on KVM.

2010-06-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/28/10 12:12 PM, cliff here wrote: still stumped. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:51 AM, cliff here c4iff...@gmail.com mailto:c4iff...@gmail.com wrote: Subject line explains most of it I'm trying to install Centos from a dvd iso, that has been verified on KVM (Fedora 13)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/06/2010 21:30, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Part of my concern with such a setup is the whole data system goes down too if the storage box dies due to say blown PSU or motherboard problem. Doesn't it? Depends on how you set it up, if you have 2 machines ( disk nodes ), exporting iscsi. 1

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/28/10 12:13 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Has anybody tried or knows if it is possible to create a MD RAID1 device using networked iSCSI devices like those created using OpenFiler? The idea I'm thinking of here is to use two OpenFiler servers with physical drives in RAID 1, to create

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Depends on how you set it up, if you have 2 machines ( disk nodes ), exporting iscsi. 1 machine ( data node ) doing the import and sets up a raid1; you can afford to have one of those two machines down. You *cant* afford to have the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 3:25 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I dont see why not. But you dont dont need openfilter to give you iscsi capability. CentOS-5.1+ has had the ability to export an iscsi target itself with all the tooling built in. I'm not sure yet since openFiler seems to provide a few more

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQL

2010-06-28 Thread Meenoo Shivdasani
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.1 To identify what package contains a specific file, you can use yum search. For example: yum search MySQLdb returns MySQL-python.x86_64 : An interface to MySQL therefore MySQLdb can be updated

[CentOS] An Interview with Karan

2010-06-28 Thread didi
A nice little insight into CentOS : http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100628#feature Cheers Didi p.s. Sorry if this has already been posted :) -- Hoffmann Geerd-Dietger http://contact.ribalba.de ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-28 Thread Dave
Graphic installer doesn't like my graphics card, so I am using the text installer. I have two physical disks in my system. When I get to the partitioning type page, I choose remove all partitions on selected drives [etc] and put an asterisk next to sda, no asterisk next to sdb. I want to use sdb

Re: [CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Graphic installer doesn't like my graphics card, so I am using the text installer. I have two physical disks in my system. When I get to the partitioning type page, I choose remove all partitions on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/29/10, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: If you are looking at openfiler, you might also want to consider nexentastor. Their community edition is free for up to 12TB of storage. It's an OpenSolaris/ZFS based system with web management, able to export cifs/nfs/ftp/sftp/iscsi

[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 Xen installation trouble installing FUSE

2010-06-28 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've got CentOS 5.3 installed as a Xen client installed. I've recently been trying to install TrueCrypt on the VM, but am having miserable troubles with the Fuse kernel module. To date, I've installed the following packages: yum install truecrypt yum install fuse However, to launch the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 6/29/10, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: If you are looking at openfiler, you might also want to consider nexentastor. Their community edition is free for up to 12TB of storage. It's an OpenSolaris/ZFS based system

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 04:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org wrote: Depends on how you set it up, if you have 2 machines ( disk nodes ), exporting iscsi. 1 machine ( data node ) doing the import and sets up a raid1; you can afford to have one of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/29/10, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: The only problem is their HA is commercial only and costs more than the entire hardware budget I've got for this. Crucially, it relies on a failover/heartbeat kind of arrangement. According to some sources, the failover delay

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Christopher Chan wrote: On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 6/29/10, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: If you are looking at openfiler, you might also want to consider nexentastor. Their community edition is free for up to 12TB of storage. It's an