++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[Red Squirrel]

Just hanging. Now I lost all my file shares on my workstation. That tends to cause the whole system to lock up, and if that happens I don't think it will even boot.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Ugh I really need more redundancy on my network. It's ridiculous to deal with all this crap just because of a power bump.

I think the VM stuff has always been problematic, too many eggs in one basket and too many things depending on other things unless you spend huge bucks on HA VM host/storage solution. Should go back to physical servers. A lot of the small stuff could just be done on Raspberry PIs.

At least with physical servers if you lose a few boxes it's only those things that are down.

 

[Red Squirrel]

SOB of course, the local Windows VM I'm using to manage the VMs and do other stuff that requires Windows is hosted on my file server which is now also in limbo because it's hanged at restarting NFS. FML.

 

[Red Squirrel]

OMG, it actually finished loading, and I was able to refresh the storage on the VM server!

Now here's hoping the VMs arn't corrupt...

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

OMG, it actually finished loading, and I was able to refresh the storage on the VM server!

Now here's hoping the VMs arn't corrupt...

Tell me you pulled it out. The suspense is killing me!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Tell me you pulled it out. The suspense is killing me!

I managed to get most of the VMs back online! Had some corrupted DBs, restored one from backup.

One VM is toast. Googling to see if I have any chance of restoring it, but think I'm going to have to nuke it and start over, ex: rebuild the OS.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Shows up as unknown. Removed it from inventory and readded it, still does the same. I think the vmdk is corrupt. Ironicly, it's my VPN VM. I was thinking I should move the VPN server to a Raspberry PI. If I end up having to actually rebuild that, I may as well just do that. VMs are great... but have too many dependencies. Storage needs to work, DNS needs to work (so that it can keep talking with storage server) and overall if any piece of the puzzle is down then you lose the VMs. If I put VPN on a Pi then I could VPN to my network even if my VM server is crapped out.

Not that I would have remotely had any time to fix this from work today, was quite busy.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Got it working!

Basically I just created a new VM then re-attached the old VMDK file to it and it booted up!

As far as I can tell it works, but it's a VPN server, so I'll only know once I'm off my network and can test it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh crap.... vnic will have a different MAC address because it's a new VM. That seems to be causing issues in Linux. Linux is weird when you do NIC related changes, it does not pickup new NICs without a reinstall. I think there's some weird kung-fu you can do with modprobe or something...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yay got it working!

Had to delete a udev rule file.

https://www.unixmen.com/fix-device-eth0-seem-present-delaying-initialization-error/

Also had to add the new MAC address in the ifcfg-eth0 file.

 

[John Connor]

 

[John Connor]

My cousin, when he called me always asked me, "so, what are you going to do today?" I'd say, "same thing I always do, Pinky. To RULE! the world!"

 

[Pick2]

Bought the old Critters movie on eBay in preparation for Halloween.

Critters is not a Halloween or Christmas movie , it is a satire of corporate greed , Government corruption , persecution of the LGBTQ-XYZ community and the enslavement of the common Man.

Viva La Revolucion!

 

[John Connor]

Critters is not a Halloween or Christmas movie , it is a satire of corporate greed , Government corruption , persecution of the LGBTQ-XYZ community and the enslavement of the common Man.

Viva La Revolucion!

I see your protest and raise you a safe space.

https://youtu.be/ovPGYPzpbWk?t=2m25s

 

[Pick2]

Ha - The guy must be a really lousy shot to need that many guns

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

Ha - The guy must be a really lousy shot to need that many guns

I don't have a problem with that. Not a whole of difference between having a few guns and a lot of guns. You can only uses one (two max) at a time. So, he collects firearms. Does that mark an obsession? I have a pistol and a lone rifle. I would guess that my computers would be mark my obsession.

 

[bigboxes]

I love this huge screen. Raiders game on one side and the internet on the other.

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

moo