Ubuntu 14.04 and Xenserver 6.2 problems
I've had my Plex Media Server running on Ubuntu 12.04 on XS 6.2 for a while now. It recently started nagging me to upgrade to 14.04. Didn't see a reason not to do this, but I also didn't do much digging…
XenServer 6 and Unraid NFS...I gave up
I actually did this a little while ago and forgot to post about it. I could not get NFS to work between XenServer and Unraid. So, I scrounged up some hardware and punted. I installed OpenFiler and iSCSI. And it worked. Angels sang. Rainbows shone. Something about unicorns... It'…
Not so fast....back to XenServer
Just...can't...get...it...to...work. So, I'm going to try XenServer free again and ask for help at the support forums for both Citrix and Unraid. I managed to get noac to populate into the NFS settings but lookupcache=none isn't taking. There…
XenServer 6.2 free, bye, bye ... hello Xen!
Despite my best efforts I couldn't maintain a stable NFS connection for the network share to Unraid. I've decided to bag it and try building a Xen hypervisor up from an Ubuntu install. It looks like XenCenter should still be able to manage it so I…
XenServer 6.2 free and NFS shares on Unraid
I recently ran across a problem with XenServer 6.2 when connecting to my Unraid on NFS. It kept dropping the NFS connection but I couldn't determine why. I thought it might be Xen related and reinstalled straight Ubuntu 12.04 instead. However, I started having the same…
AWS holding up
Made some recommended changes to MySQL and it seems to be behaving better. We'll see if that continues.…
EC2 Free micro instance is rather hobbled
I keep having issues with the MySQL DB going offline on this free instance. The server is doing very little but I guess it's enough to crash MySQL frequently. I might have to make other arrangements.…
Amazon Web Services
As of the last post I have now moved this blog and a couple of others to a free EC2 instance. As long as I don't get hammered, the performance should be perfectly adequate. So far, the experience has been quite good. There are some peculiarities with using…