thinking sysadmin » amazon http://andyleonard.com qstat -u aleonard -s z Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:46:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Best Links that were later deleted, 8/11/2008 http://andyleonard.com/2008/08/11/the-best-links-that-were-later-deleted-8112008/ http://andyleonard.com/2008/08/11/the-best-links-that-were-later-deleted-8112008/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:52:54 +0000 Andy http://andyleonard.com/?p=60 So I returned from a little five-day weekend to sunny Lake Chelan and the Columbia River to an RSS reader bursting at the seams with new posts. By far the best post was one later deleted:

  • Amazon Elastic Block Store goes live! (Yeah, that link’s dead – like I said, it was later deleted.) The RightScale folks appear to have inadvertently published a draft (on 8/8, the day after I left town) of their blog post designed to coincide with the release of Amazon’s Elastic Block Store for EC2. They later deleted it, but Google Reader kindly cached the post for me. I won’t repeat anything in the post, nor would I bank on anything written there – would you gamble anything important on a retracted post about a not-yet-released product? I will add one comment: Will EBS attract attention of the lawsuit kind from NetApp? (I mean that comment only partially in jest – and you’d probably have to have seen the original post to know what I’m talking about.)
]]> http://andyleonard.com/2008/08/11/the-best-links-that-were-later-deleted-8112008/feed/ 0 No Luck with a Quick-n-Dirty BFU of SXCE 79 on EC2 http://andyleonard.com/2008/06/25/no-luck-with-a-quick-n-dirty-bfu-of-sxce-79-on-ec2/ http://andyleonard.com/2008/06/25/no-luck-with-a-quick-n-dirty-bfu-of-sxce-79-on-ec2/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:19:10 +0000 Andy http://andyleonard.com/?p=40 For grins, I tried a quick-and-dirty BFU of a SXCE 79 instance running on EC2 to the latest nightly build this morning. I roughly followed Ben Rockwood’s BFU instructions and didn’t do anything to resolve conflicts beyond running acr. On reboot, it looks like the system panicked – I presume the reason is probably somewhere in here. Console dump after the jump for the curious.

v3.0.3-rc5-8.1.14.e chgset 'unavailable '
WARNING: Found hypervisor version: v3.0.3-rc5-8.1.14.e but need at least version v3.0.4
SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_79 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
NOTICE: xdf@0: failed to read feature-barrier
Hostname: ip-10-250-11-159
Reading ZFS config: *done.
ip-10-250-11-159 console login: syslogd: line 45: WARNING: loghost could not be resolved
syncing file systems... done
rebooting...
v3.0.3-rc5-8.1.14.e chgset 'unavailable '
WARNING: Found hypervisor version: v3.0.3-rc5-8.1.14.e but need at least version v3.0.4
SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_79 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
NOTICE: xdf@0: failed to read feature-barrier
WARNING: file system 'ctfs' version mismatch
WARNING: Cannot mount /system/contract
/kernel/fs/procfs: undefined symbol 'schedctl_set_cidpri'
WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'procfs'
WARNING: Cannot mount /proc
WARNING: file system 'mntfs' version mismatch
WARNING: Cannot mount /etc/mnttab
/kernel/fs/tmpfs: undefined symbol 'choose_addr'
WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'tmpfs'
WARNING: Cannot mount /etc/svc/volatile
WARNING: file system 'objfs' version mismatch
WARNING: Cannot mount /system/object
WARNING: file system 'sharefs' version mismatch
WARNING: Cannot mount /etc/dfs/sharetab
/kernel/fs/procfs: undefined symbol 'schedctl_set_cidpri'
WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'procfs'
/kernel/drv/ip: undefined symbol 'uioamove'
/kernel/drv/ip: undefined symbol 'dl_errstr'
/kernel/drv/ip: undefined symbol 'dl_primstr'
/kernel/drv/ip: undefined symbol 'dhcifname'
WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'ip'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'uioafini'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'uioainit'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'uioasync'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'kssl_handle_mblk'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_disconnect'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_getsockname'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'nd_free'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'nd_load'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_create'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_close'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_listen'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_recvd'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'mi_mpprintf'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_alloc_hdr'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_get_opt'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'tcp_wput'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'mi_sprintf'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_bind'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'udp_wput'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_getpeername'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_sendmsg'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_set_opt'
/kernel/fs/sockfs: undefined symbol 'sctp_connect'
WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'sockfs'
WARNING: sockfs: unable to resolve dependency, module 'drv/ip' not found
/kernel/sys/c2audit: undefined symbol 'getsonode'
WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'c2audit'
WARNING: c2audit: unable to resolve dependency, module 'fs/sockfs' not found
/kernel/misc/strplumb: undefined symbol 'dl_attach'
/kernel/misc/strplumb: undefined symbol 'dl_phys_addr'
/kernel/misc/strplumb: undefined symbol 'dhcacklen'
/kernel/misc/strplumb: undefined symbol 'dhcifname'
/kernel/misc/strplumb: undefined symbol 'dl_bind'
WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'strplumb'
panic[cpu0]/thread=f502c3a0: mod_hold_stub: Couldn't load stub module misc/strplumb
f5056c84 genunix:mod_hold_stub+161 (f5006070, 1, f4d38f)
f5056ca0 unix:stubs_common_code+9 ()
syncing file systems... done
skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...

]]> http://andyleonard.com/2008/06/25/no-luck-with-a-quick-n-dirty-bfu-of-sxce-79-on-ec2/feed/ 0 Capacity limit on OpenSolaris 2008.05 AMI http://andyleonard.com/2008/06/04/capacity-limit-on-opensolaris-200805-ami/ http://andyleonard.com/2008/06/04/capacity-limit-on-opensolaris-200805-ami/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:27:55 +0000 Andy http://andyleonard.com/?p=23 I missed this: Apparently the OpenSolaris 2008.05 AMI on EC2 has reached a capacity limit. So, while I got Sun’s approval this morning for their OpenSolaris/SXCE.79 on EC2 beta, I don’t get to use OpenSolaris until they add more capacity; SXCE.79 is a nice consolation prize, though.

]]> http://andyleonard.com/2008/06/04/capacity-limit-on-opensolaris-200805-ami/feed/ 0 OpenSolaris and EC2: Control Issues, Anyone? http://andyleonard.com/2008/06/01/opensolaris-and-ec2-control-issues-anyone/ http://andyleonard.com/2008/06/01/opensolaris-and-ec2-control-issues-anyone/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:58:19 +0000 Andy http://andyleonard.com/?p=19 Generally, I’m a fan of Sun Microsystems. For the most part, I like their hardware and their software – and their best products show real innovation and willingness to take risks. I’m also a fan of Amazon’s EC2 product, so the announcement that Sun would be officially bundling OpenSolaris for EC2 was great news. Unfortunately, it seems that after all the hullabaloo, Sun doesn’t really want to make it that easy for you to actually use OpenSolaris on EC2, by managing access to it like a control freak would.

I could throw in some snarkiness here about the titanic struggles that must be going on inside Sun between those that do and don’t “get it” on the OpenSolaris team, or pontificate that Sun just doesn’t get Open Source, period. Instead, I’ll leave you with a single thought: If one of EC2′s principal attractions is reducing friction in creating, prototyping, deploying and scaling, does Sun really expect to be successful by throwing up barriers to entry?

(Until I hear back from Sun – “our technical team will review your requirements and get back to you shortly” – guess I’ll just fire up a Fedora AMI. Oh well.)

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