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On a windows7 desktop, none of the latest Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome browsers provide access to the 3dm2 management pages. Luckily I had a virtual with XP that has IE8 and that got me right in! Are there any … Continue reading →

This is error is generated by receiving servers using the spamdyke filtering program Seeing the subject error in the maillog on some new CentOS 5 systems that were trying to send administrative emails. To fix it I had to change … Continue reading →

On Centos 6.3 while installing PHP 5.4 I ran into the subject error. This fixed it: # yum install libxml2-devel note: on other OS you should try to apt-get install libxml2-dev Here is the configure command I’m trying to do: … Continue reading →

This was a pain. If indeed the LSI 3ware 9750-xi is supported (and although not listed i believe it does work with ESXi 5), i STRONGLY recommend using that controller with 3dm2 vs this MegaRAID godzilla of the deep. UPDATE: … Continue reading →

While connected to the ESXi host via SSH to install the LSI MegaRAID vib, saw the error “Could not find a trusted signer” # esxcli software vib install -v /vmware-esx-provider-lsiprovider.vib [InstallationError] (‘LSI_bootbank_lsiprovider_500.04.V0.30-3000000’, ‘Could not find a trusted signer.’) vibs = … Continue reading →

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Using this tool http://www.maatkit.org/doc/mk-table-checksum.html Download the program to the master db server: wget http://www.maatkit.org/get/mk-table-checksum Create the needed table in your DB; CREATE TABLE checksum ( db char(64) NOT NULL, tbl char(64) NOT NULL, chunk int NOT NULL, boundaries char(100) NOT … Continue reading →

I’m trying to set up a brand new system on Ubuntu server 12.04 with an LSI MegaRAID 9260-4i controller. Everything was going great until I tried to set up the RAID management software aka “MegaRAID storage manager”. First I read … Continue reading →

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 on a server used for ripping and encoding DVDs. About a week after doing so, the server started acting up with errors about /dev/sr0 no medium found and failing to mount the … Continue reading →

Setting up a server with one of these RAID Controllers and trying to figure out if there is a management utility. This RoarkH guy has excellent instructions. Too bad VMWare communities don’t leave a way for me to thank him … Continue reading →