flashing my M1015 LSI9211-8i SAS2008 (LSI9240/9211) SAS9240-8i to IR mode for direct disk access: These URLs list some interesting reads about flashing the firmware of this LSI HBA http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/ http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/29059-lsi-92xx-firmware-files/ http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/29059-sas2008-lsi92409211-firmware-files/ http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/29059-sas2008-lsi92409211-firmware-files/page-5 http://brycv.com/blog/2012/flashing-it-firmware-to-lsi-sas9211-8i/ http://www.0x00.to/post/2013/04/07/Flash-IBM-ServeRAID-M1015-to-LSI9211-8i-with-UEFI-mainboard LSI homepage for the latest IT mode firmware ( I used P20)- this has many tools: http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9211-8i.aspx#tab/tab4 Lenovo driverpage for SASRead More
Should Redhat VMs share VMware hosts with Windows guests?
I believe no, here’s why: Benefits of dedicated Red Hat VMware environment: 1. Licensing benefits: Components used in Redhat environment: MySQL, Red Hat Linux, Red Hat high availability extension, Red Hat resilient storage add-on, Redhat Scalable Filesystem (for CIFS/NFS), JBoss, Oracle. If we share , all VMs will need a license/subscription ( sameRead More
Our Experiences with Virtualized SuSe Linux on our Mainframe SLES11 SP2 under z/VM
overall we are very satisfied with the virtualization capabilities of z/VM on our two Z196 and Z9. great performance, reliability, functionality, stability all come together. it is not ‘bed of roses’ always. there are times when we run into issues but most of the time it just works out well. i am listing some ofRead More
How to install and configure openvpn on Samsung AT&T Captivate froyo Android 2.2 mobile
Who doesn’t run openVPN server? I run one at my home to access my home computers. You may be accessing an openvpn service somewhere on internet for security reasons. I too needed my AT&T Captivate to connect to it. I searched through the amazing XDA-Developer website and found tons of information on itRead More
dos2unix command emulation in Linux
When you create a file in windows OS and you copy the file in Unix and Linux servers, you would find that there are ^M character showing up. Ineterestingly they do not show up in more command but certainly in vi editor. to convert such a dos file to unix format, solaris has a dos2unixRead More
Script command to Update config file and avoid duplicate entries in Shell
There are times when you have multiple servers to edit files like /etc/fstab but you want to make sure you don’t have duplicate entries in that file. All us Unix admins know what that means. config_update.shraw download1 2 LINE=’tools:/mnt/spool /mnt/spool nfs intr 0 0′ grep “$LINE” /etc/fstab >/dev/null || echo $LINE >> /etc/fstab
Logrotation script
Here is a script that I sometimes use to implement logrotation on my Solaris servers for generic agent log files. I started to use before Solaris 9. The ‘logadm’ utility exists in Solaris 9 and 10 which has got some pretty neat features. logrotate.kshraw download1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11Read More
How to change the hostname in a Sun Container
The easy way to change the hostname of a Sun container server is to edit /etc/nodename to reflect the new name revisit the /etc/hosts file to verify that its got the IP/Name of the container correct There is no need to change the name of the container to be the same as the hostname ofRead More