similar to: Clustering solutions - mail, www, storage.

Hi all. Currently I am administering a mail cluster in which messages are stored on software RAID shared with NFS. There are several NFS servers, every one of them exports a part of all mail files for a specific frontend with postfix. We are thinking about replacing these storage hosts with one solution, maybe a storage array with appropriate disk space and I/O capacity. What are pros and cons

Hi All. I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one of the following options: - KVM; - VMWare Esxi; - VMWare Workstation. I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use something like LVM snapshots for backups. Stability is also very important, the guest will be used as a production server. Which option could You recommend and why? Thank You very much

Hi All. I have a setup in which I have two servers serving nfs share. The nfs service is made highly available with pacemaker. When the primary server goes down the secondary starts nfs service. Service IP is floating between servers but they have NO "shared" storage/filesystem so NFS state/connection information in case of failover is lost. I have two clients. When the failover from

Hi all. I have two hosts with drbd: kmod-drbd83-8.3.8-1.el5.centos drbd83-8.3.8-1.el5.centos and kernel (CentOS 5.7): 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 After a recent upgrade of kernel I have had two sitiuations when my ext3 filesystem on /dev/drbd0 became read-only. I've checked disks with smartctl -t long, they are ok. There are no messages with disks problems in /var/log/messages | dmesg. I've made

Hi all. I am currently designing a server room. I would like to be able to draw a 2D (in the future 3D) project. Do you know any tools? Which one can you recommend? Best regards, Rafal Radecki.

Hi all. I am currently installing drbd on Centos 6.3 x86_64 and have two possible repos to choose. Which one in your opinion is better/provides more stable packages/etc.? Best regards, Rafal Radecki.

Hi, I need to create a real-time replication of a partition between two servers with centos 6.4, I am researching and finding difficulty with drbd, corosync, someone indicate material, do not need to run script automatically if a node drops only replicate. Grateful. -- Sergio.Alex

Hi all. I am currently building a small test cloud based on Eucalyptus 2.0.3 and CentOS 5.8 x64. I have a choice which hypervisor to use: KVM or XEN. KVM is the default in CentOS 6 but I have read also many good things (for example PV guest machines, isolation between Dom0 and DomU) about XEN. Key factors from my opint of view are: - stability (which one runs more smoothly on CentOS?) -

Hi all. I am currently building a small test cloud based on Eucalyptus 2.0.3 and CentOS 5.8 x64. I have a choice which hypervisor to use: KVM or XEN. KVM is the default in CentOS 6 but I have read also many good things (for example PV guest machines, isolation between Dom0 and DomU) about XEN. Key factors from my opint of view are: - stability (which one runs more smoothly on CentOS?) -

Hi all. I have a router with 5 network interfaces and sometimes there is so much traffic on one of them that the server load is very high. What are the options to limit the traffic per IP address on every interface? Which need least system (CPU, memory) resources? Thanks. Best regards, Rafal.

Hi all. I am working for a hosting provider in Poland. We are currently searching for an universal, extensible hardware platform which we would like to use in our server infrastructure. The platform should have: - possibility to install up to 32GB of RAM and at least 4 slots for it; - at least 6 SATA ports; - the possibility to use SAS disks; - at least one 1Gb/s network interface and the

Hi All. I've used syslog-ng for some time. I like it. I have a project in which I need to choose a central logging solution. What are your experiences with rsyslog? Is it more complex to setup than syslog-ng? Or maybe does it have some additional features? I am also thinking about using some gui tools for log parsing and graphing. May be proprietary/paid. Any suggestions? Best regards,

Hi All :) I need to check and possibly update openssl on my fleet of servers. I would like to avoid reboot if possible. I think that I can: - update openssl version with yum - check all daemon processes which are constantly running in the os, for example for sshd something like ldd `which sshd` | awk '/\// { print $3 }' | grep crypto | xargs strings | grep -i openssl to verify if the

Hi all. I am thinking about installing memcached with replication, I've found http://sourceforge.net/projects/repcached/files/repcached/2.2.1-1.2.8/ but it is for 1.2.8, and for Centos 6.3 memcached is in version 1.4.4. I do not want to use client side "replication" (writing to two memcached nodes at the same time) and haven't found other solution. Are there any good, protocol

Hi All. I am trying to install some software. Part of its installation is an invocation of command similar to: # sudo -H -E -u postgres /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/python2.7 /bin/bash: /usr/bin/python2.7: Permission denied >From my perspective: # ls -l /bin/bash /usr/bin/python2.7 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 960376 Jul 8 2015 /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 7136 Oct 11 2015 /usr/bin/python2.7

Hi all. I am currently thinking about monitoring a network link (bandwidth, latency, packet drop). I have a centos server which is connected to providers network through a switch. How to test the link? Should I: - use ICMP to ping gateway and collect staistics of time/packet loss/etc. - use software like here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-windows-monitor-outgoing-bandwidth-latency/

Hi All :) What is the best way to get a list of available security updates? I found several commands for that: 1) yum updateinfo list updates -q --security 2) yum list-security --security -q 3) yum --security check-update -q Based on the sample output below I think I can use any of the three with some awk to get a list of packages. yum updateinfo list updates -q --security FEDORA-EPEL-2014-0525

Hi all. I have currently an OpenVZ server: uname -a Linux vader8.superhost.pl 2.6.32-042stab055.16 #1 SMP Fri Jun 8 19:22:28 MSD 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.2 (Final) lspci | grep -i eth 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Hi All. I have two servers ("master" and "slave") with a replicated gluster volume. Recently I've had a problem with slave and gluster does not work on it now. So I would like to: - stop and remove current volume on master (on slave it is not accessible); - stop gluster software on master (already stopped on slave); - remove gluster software on master and slave (previous

Hi All. I have an environment in which I would like to implement a GUI for parsing syslog-ng logs from operating system, application servers and databases. I've heard that Splunk is a good tool but its quite hard to learn. Are there any valuable alternatives? What are you using and why? Best regards, Rafal.