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Enabling disk logging on Fortigates

02/12/2013 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

Enabling disk logging on Fortigates

Fortigate’s logging typically isn’t the best – but it’s bad when you have no logs at all, which seems to be the default. To enable logging

Filed Under: Hardware, Infrastructure, Software Tagged With: fortigate, logging, syslogd

QUBMC – El Chorro Video 2013

19/11/2013 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

QUBMC – El Chorro Video 2013

Spent a lot of my free time recently finishing up an edit I was doing for my climbing club, for our trip to El Chorro, Andalucia, Spain in February.

Filed Under: Just For Fun Tagged With: climbing, video

openSUSE Install Graphics Problems?

02/10/2013 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

openSUSE Install Graphics Problems?

I had problems recently on a Dell R720XD giving problems when trying to install openSUSE, regardless of the mode I set it up in I would get strange vertical coloured lines on the monitor. It’s a graphics driver problem clearly – the solution, on the openSUSE boot screen, move to Installation and in the boot […]

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: nomodeset, openSUSE

Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager on openSUSE

02/10/2013 by Myles Gray 3 Comments

Centrally managing your storage is nice – especially when you’ve just built your own SANs (or such). I created a synchronous replicating SAN cluster using LSI MegaRAID 9270-8i cards in 2x Dell R720XD chassis built on openSUSE 12.3 (more on that in another article soon). We are migrating from 2x Dell MD3000i to these beasts […]

Filed Under: Hardware, Infrastructure Tagged With: openSUSE

Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to vCSA 5.5

23/09/2013 by Myles Gray 6 Comments

Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to vCSA 5.5

So you’ve downloaded all the new VMWare 5.5 goodies and you want to upgrade your vCSA install to v5.5 – this is a little more involved than you may think, however it is very much worth the effort: In vSphere 5.5, the vCenter Server Appliance limitations have been extremely raised when using the embedded database: Previous […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Virtualisation Tagged With: esxi, vcsa, vmware, vsphere

Syslogd on FortiOS 5.0.4

18/09/2013 by Myles Gray 13 Comments

Syslogd on FortiOS 5.0.4

Again, Fortigate’s documentation falls down at the simplest of things, this time, syslogging – To get your Fortigate to log to a syslogger (like Kiwi/Splunk) you’ll need to go in via the CLI as they have removed this option from the GUI as of FortiOS v5.0. Log in via shell and enter the following: config […]

Filed Under: Hardware, Infrastructure Tagged With: fortigate, splunk, syslogd

Veeam Hot-Add Mode Fails – Mismatching VMFS block size

17/09/2013 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

Veeam Hot-Add Mode Fails – Mismatching VMFS block size

Recently had a problem were Veeam was giving bother on one VM that had a dedicated datastore, not allowing hot-add virtual appliance mode to work. I originally thought it was a problem with CBT (changed block tracking) so I disabled that, with no luck, as it transpires there were a few (all datastore formatting related) […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Virtualisation Tagged With: CBT, hot-add, RDM, Veeam, vmfs, vsphere

vSAN + vSphere 5.5 Release Date and Download

16/09/2013 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

vSAN + vSphere 5.5 Release Date and Download

VMWare’s vSAN Community site has been launched today in preparation for the release of vSphere 5.5 including the new vSAN feature (clustered, replicated local storage on hosts acting as a “Virtual SAN”). You can have a look at the walkthroughs here. You can sign up for the beta program here, more vSAN info available here. […]

Filed Under: Hardware, Infrastructure, Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: esxi, vmware, vsan, vsphere beta

Teaming ReadyNAS Ultra NICs

12/09/2013 by Myles Gray 5 Comments

Teaming ReadyNAS Ultra NICs

Netgear for some reason believe that ReadyNAS models that aren’t the “Pro” line don’t require network teaming across both their ethernet ports, so you have 2 network ports on your NAS, you’ve got your jumbo frames on and you want to configure load balancing/failover via the 2 interfaces. Of course the ReadyNAS is based on […]

Filed Under: Hardware, Software Tagged With: bonding, jumbo frame, nic, readynas, teaming

Serial and USB Console on Mac OSX

11/09/2013 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

Serial and USB Console on Mac OSX

Obviously nowadays when admining we mostly have laptops – laptops don’t tend to come with serial I/O ports anymore, so you buy a Serial -> USB adapter, say this one or any one with a legit (there are fakes) FDTI FT232RL chipset. Download and install the relevant drivers but where do we go from here? Specifically […]

Filed Under: Hardware, Software Tagged With: cisco, console, osx, rs232, serial

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