2013-06-07 | 0 comments
(Or, How to migrate all GPFS filesystem metadata to SSDs) IBM’s general advice [as of 2012] when setting up a new non-tired GPFS filesystem is to lean towards spreading data & metadata across all LUNs. See Data & Metadata in … Continue reading
2013-06-06 | 0 comments
LSI’s MegaRAID series of SAS RAID controllers will halt the system boot process when loading the cards option ROM (what LSI call’s the controller’s BIOS), if there are any “errors” detected. Manual intervention is needed to get the system boot … Continue reading
2013-06-06 | 0 comments
I discovered this morning upgrading from MegaRAID Storage manager 12.08.03-03 -> 13.04.03-01 that the RPM for the old package wasn’t being removed. An example is below. Note that I’ve created local YUM repos for the LSI provided RPMs. # yum … Continue reading
2013-06-03 | 1 Comment
A few months ago I created a simple template of a Puppet forge module to make clones of when starting a new module due to puppet module generate … leaving much to be manually edited/created. This is very handy when … Continue reading