On the ESX console, do the following:
Read the documentation for each patch.
Group patches that can be installed together into a directory, possibly an NFS mount available on all your ESX hosts.
Cd into the patch directory and untar the patches:
for i in `ls *.tgz`; do
tar -xvzf $i
done
Install the patches:
for i in `ls`; do
if [ -d [...]
Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008 - Amazon’s post-mortem on the 7/20 S3 outage. Excerpt: “We’ve now determined that message corruption was the cause of the server-to-server communication problems. More specifically, we found that there were a handful of messages on Sunday morning that had a single bit corrupted such that the message [...]
So you thought you fixed the DNS spoofing vulnerability that was all over the news this month? You applied the patches and moved on to the other fifty-seven things crowded on your to-do list, thinking that you were safe? If your resolvers are behind a NAT, you might want to think again, smart [...]
File Level Recovery from within a VMDK backup - Nick Triantos of NetApp covers file-level recovery from VMware (Windows) VMDK files again, in more depth than he has before. Nick notes that it can be a “a point-and-click process.”
VMware to release ESX 3i for free next week - Yeah, the title pretty much says it all; I guess that’s one way to compete with the price of Hyper-V. Now what were those 3i vs 3.5 limitations?
Flash Forward - Jay Kidd, CTO of NetApp blogs that “NetApp is in the process of certifying enterprise-grade SSDs that you can use in our existing storage shelves.” No dates or pricing announced yet, of course, but he does make an excellent point about SSDs in storage arrays: “For the next few years, you [...]
Storage virtualization doesn’t exist - This needed to be said: “Virtualization.info doesn’t cover the so called storage virtualization because at today this term doesn’t mean anything. Unlike what happens for hardware virtualization, OS virtualization and application virtualization, the storage vendors seems unable to find an agreement on the definition. The term is abused [...]
Elektronkind: OpenSolaris 2008.11 - A Preview For The Storage Admin - A look at upcoming storage technologies in OpenSolaris 2008.11, including ZFS, iSCSI, NDMP, COMSTAR, AVS and SAM-QFS. These products really set OpenSolaris apart from Linux distributions, although I wonder how official this list is, and have some doubts about the status of some [...]
VM HA - service console networking, isolation behavior - and other “under the covers stuff” - An overview of how VMware ESX’s High Availability works under the hood - making it much more apparent to me how important file locking is to HA’s functioning. (I’d love to see an overview of how file locking [...]
How to find the version of BIND that you’re running:
> dig @localhost version.bind txt chaos
; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @localhost version.bind txt chaos
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7775
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;version.bind. [...]