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EMC Navisphere stuff and commands 150 150 Roderick Derks

EMC Navisphere stuff and commands

Here we have an overview of the commands I used while connecting two HPUX machines to two Clariion CX340 storage adapters (4 paths to the storage).

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VirtualCenter upgrade 2.0 to 2.5 150 150 Roderick Derks

VirtualCenter upgrade 2.0 to 2.5

The upgrade of VirtualCenter 2.0 to 2.5 is the first step of upgrading VMware Virtual Infrasctructure 3.0x to 3.5. In this article I'll describe the steps I took to upgrade VirtualCenter.

The upgrade is not hard and you don't have any downtime. You can do it during office hours, even if you have lots of VM's running and customers depend on them. Isn't this grand!

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Howto restart an Oracle database 150 150 Roderick Derks

Howto restart an Oracle database

SSH Secure Shell 3.2.9 (Build 283)
Copyright (c) 2000-2003 SSH Communications Security Corp – http://www.ssh.com/

This copy of SSH Secure Shell is a non-commercial version.
This version does not include PKI and PKCS #11 functionality.

Last login: Thu Jan 24 10:49:50 2008 from 10.20.113.226
[root@ezhoradb04 ~]# su – oracle
ezhoradb04 [epdtst] ~> . oraenv
ORACLE_SID = [epdtst] ? algtst
ezhoradb04 [algtst] ~> sqlplus /nolog

SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.8.0 – Production on Sat Jan 26 12:13:38 2008

Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

SQL> connect / as sysdba        
Connected.
SQL> shutdown immediate
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area  286331356 bytes
Fixed Size                   451036 bytes
Variable Size             234881024 bytes
Database Buffers           50331648 bytes
Redo Buffers                 667648 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.

cd $ORACLE_BASE/admin/agtst/bdump
ls -lrt
view alert_algtst.log

Setup NFS server to share DVD 150 150 Roderick Derks

Setup NFS server to share DVD

Want to know to setup an NFS server on Linux and connect it to a VMware ESX server? Could be handy, for example when you have a DVD you want to use on your ESX host, but you don't have a DVD player… (grrrr).
Well, this is how it's done.

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Open Source Groupware: Zimbra 150 150 Roderick Derks

Open Source Groupware: Zimbra

Last week I started looking on the web if there was an interesting Groupware package in the open source community. Groupware can contain a mixture of the following services: email, calander, taskmanager, document management, instant messenger and more. Well known closed source examples are Microsofts Exchange server, Lotus Notes and Novell’s Groupwise. I ran into two open source packages: Postpath and Zimbra. You can download Postpath and use it for thirty days. Zimbra has a so called network edition you can try for 60 days, and an open source edition which you can use freely. I decided to take a look at the open source Zimbra package, and I’m glad I did.
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Install Fedora using kickstart 150 150 Roderick Derks

Install Fedora using kickstart

The goal is to use  virtual floppy so I can install Fedora on a VM very fast.
Create a floppy image using Winimage software or VMware.
Winimage is very self explanatory. When you use VMware add a floppy device to the a VM, select create a floppy image, boot the system and copy the anaconda cfg file to the disk.

 Install linux, in the first screen push ESC, and enter the following line:

boot linux k=hd:fd0/anaconda.cfg

It depends on the info in the file that if you are going to have to add more info in the install screens. Installation can be fully automated. For more info click here. 

Backup using rsync between Linux and Windows 150 150 Roderick Derks

Backup using rsync between Linux and Windows

Hurray, another fine way to control data on Windows boxes from Linux machines. We are using cygwin, openssl, openssh, vi and bash. read more

Linux: vi commands 150 150 Roderick Derks

Linux: vi commands

A list containing commands to use with the linux vi editor. read more

Ubuntu: Tips and Tricks 150 150 Roderick Derks

Ubuntu: Tips and Tricks

My growing collection of tips and tricks for Ubuntu that I want to remember. read more

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