She took over where the lone sysadmin left off, the guy who ran the entire dino zoo infrastructure from one workstation (application development as well "debugging eight million lines of code") with zero documentation. However all they had to do was reboot the servers and everything was OK - except for the raptors got out. DR testing had been missed.
On 21 September 2010 14:08, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Remember "Jurassic Park"? "Hey, I know this system - it's just unix!" > Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out... > > James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM: > > > > My ESXi education continues....cheers > > > > Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days! > > > On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run > > ifconfig. You should get something like this: > > > > vswif0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:4E:D4:28 > > inet addr:172.16.15.21 Bcast:172.16.15.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:47793949 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:30426544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > RX bytes:38276131304 (35.6 GiB) TX bytes:24724689335 (23.0 > GiB) > > > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:42 AM > > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: ESXi fun > > > > I've spotted another DL360 with a couple of spare drive bays that is > > running ESXi as well. I'm just trying to find the IP address because > > it doesn't appear to be in DNS (there is some serious process > > implementation needing doing at this place). > > On 21 September 2010 13:39, Martin Blackstone <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I loves me some NetApp!! > > > > Any chance you have a spare server you could slap the disks in? > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:29 AM > > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: ESXi fun > > > > Local disks only. No shared storage sucks. Not long now though - > > NetApp is being built as we speak. > > On 21 September 2010 13:25, Martin Blackstone <[email protected]> > wrote: > > How is your VM storage attached? > > Local disk, NFS, iSCSI, FC? > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:01 AM > > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: ESXi fun > > > > Would it see the disk OK even if it hasn't been configured in the HP > > ACU? I'm an ESXi novice and not sure how ESXi actually picks up logical > disks > > On 21 September 2010 05:59, Level Five - List <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You know you could just put the drive in a working esxi system and mount > the > > datastore and files ... > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:55 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: ESXi fun > > > > True Love! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:40 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: ESXi fun > > > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Damien Solodow > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> There's a big difference between half dead and all dead. Half dead > > >> is half alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually > > >> only one thing you can do. > > > > > > Go through his pockets looking for loose change? > > > > Ding ding ding! Congratulations! Johnny, tell him what's he's won... > > > > -- Ben > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > > com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > > > -- > > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put > > into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I > > am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that > > could provoke such a question." > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > > com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > > com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > > > -- > > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put > > into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I > > am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that > > could provoke such a question." > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > > com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > > com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > > > -- > > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put > > into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I > > am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that > > could provoke such a question." > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > > com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > > com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > > > -- > > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put > > into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I > > am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that > > could provoke such a question." > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > > com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
