Preston Lee's Blog

Tag: server

  • Don’t Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance From 5.0 to 5.1

    Thinking of upgrading your vCenter Server Appliance from a 5.0 image to the 5.1 image using the official VMware upgrade process covered in the documentation? Don’t do it. It fails somehow. Every time.   Unexpected error during the upgrade process. To attempt to upgrade again, restore the old vCenter Server Appliance and external database from backup/snapshot,…

  • Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 Server Upgrade Error

    Are you Googl’ing around trying to figure out why you’re getting this error when trying to `do-release-upgrade’ your Ubuntu 12.10 system, even though you’re pretty much up to date? root@mia:~# do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade”, line 145, in <module> fetcher.run_options += [“–mode=%s” % options.mode, AttributeError: type…

  • OpenStack Diablo on Ubuntu 11.10 w/MySQL

    If you’re installing the OpenStack cloud computing platform “Diablo” release on Ubuntu 11.10 server using the official guide and are using MySQL, don’t forget to: sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb The “glance” package (and probably others) are configured to use SQLite by default and do not automatically install this dependency by default. Unfortunately, the November 2011 version of the…

  • MacPort MySQL “Can’t find file: ‘./mysql/host.frm’” Error

    I recently set up a new Mac OS X Snow Leopard laptop for software development purposes. After going through my usual MacPorts installation and installed MySQL using the following steps sudo install mysql5-server sudo cp /opt/local/var/macports/software/mysql5/5.1.44_0/opt/local/share/mysql5/mysql/my-medium.cnf /opt/local/etc/mysql5/my.cnf sudo -u mysql mysql_install_db5 sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist A few days past, and one day I notice…

  • Recovering A Corrupt OpenLDAP Database On OSX Server

    Recovering A Corrupt OpenLDAP Database On OSX Server Last night we noticed some services provided by an OSX Leopard Server instance were not working correctly. The iChat, AFP and Web services were not authenticating. In Server Admin.app, the “Overview” tab of the Open Directory service reported… LDAP Server is: Not Running Password Server is: Running…

  • Parallels Server for Mac Pricing

    Fresh from my inbox.. Parallels Server for Mac will be available soon. As a thank you to all participating Parallels Server for Mac Beta users, Parallels is offering an exclusive discount on a single Parallels Server for Mac license. Purchase this new software for only $700* – a 30% savings. Hmm… well, the product has been working fairly…

  • Xserve w/Leopard Server (Mac OS X 10.5), First Impressions

    We just picked up a refurbished 2.66GHz quad-core Xeon from Apple, which we’ll be using for internal infrastructure. (We’re in the process of migrating from a mix of Solaris and Linux). After about 8 hours of learning the ins and outs of Leopard Server over the weekend, we had the box running Open Directory (Kerberos…

  • The $1,000 (USD), 2TB OpenSolaris File Server

    Here’s how to score a sweet OpenSolaris-compatible 2TB file server for $1000 (USD). I’m running Solaris Express Developer Edition on it with a ZFS RAIDZ1 file system. Motherboard: Asus M2NPV-VM. A great, inexpensive mATX board w/4 SATA ports, 2 IDE, PCI-X, GigE, built-in nVidia graphics w/DVI and VGA outs, FireWire, and tons of USB love.…