Andy Paton's most Technical Adventure

The guys over at XenSource have pulled a master stoke, they have announced they will be integrating VxVM & VxFS into their Enterprise product . I'm a VMWARE VCP and it always amazed me that the VMWARE ESX didn't support fibre multipathing with load balancing. I've always taken multipathing for granted with Veritas (Symantec) VxVM DMP ( a must with Photons ) and latter MPXIO in Solaris . I'm sure VMWARE will add EMC PowerPath soon to push along those CLARiiON. Remember you can get Veritas Volume manager for free, check this blog post .

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Created a simple guide for all on setting up Microsoft Windows SFU (Services For UNIX) - NFS Server. Note: it doesn't cover user mapping. http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcxf52h3_32ckjkbh http://tinyurl. com/2pyswk

I have a central jumpstart server delivering Solaris 8 , 9 & 10 to the engineering workshop. Its recently been upgraded from an Ultra 2 to a V20z running Solaris 10 x86. A colleague came over a problem with the Solaris 8 add_install_client , producing adb errors. On closer observation the add_install_client incorrectly parses output from the ifconfig command, but only when zones are running. ifconfig list which zone owns the interface and this what Solaris 8 add_install_client script fails to cope with. Workaround, make the following changes in blue at line number 1939 to add_install_client read inet ipaddr netmask mask broadcast broadaddr if [ "${ifname}" = "lo0:" ]; then continue; fi if [ "$inet" = "zone" ]; then # Found an interface dedicated to a local zone. # Read in the real "inet" line and continue. read inet ipaddr netmask mask broadcast broadaddr continue; fi

I've got to worry about this attack. My MD was sent a USB pendrive in a box with corporate literature from " Tune-into-it.com ". Unusually :-D the literature didn't express what Tune-into-it.com does, so my MD trashed the literature and kept the pen drive for later viewing. Today he viewed the USB pendrive and instantly the Trend Anti Virus found TROJ_SMALL.EAK in "AutoSvr.exe" PE_Chir.B in "IT Newsletter PC.exe" Now what worries me is was either a, A targeted attack aimed my MD. A attack against my company. or a mass junkmail attack. Or Tune-into-it.com is vaild company and have unfortunately been infected with a virus. Either way it was well funded with glossy corporate literature, USB pendrive with Tune-into-it.com printed on it and sent in the post!. Check their website , it looks professional but doesn't tell you what they actually do! Unfortunately I didn't get to the pendrive before it was formatted and blanked by a colle