22Apr 2014 by Tom Southerland 1 Comment

FreeBSD / FreeNAS Clone Jail

BSD, Technology, Virtualization
I recently had the need to update my shiny new FreeBSD jailed server because I wanted to migrate to WordPress. I didn't want to bring down the existing server while I did the install and converted my content so I managed to clone my existing jailed server using warden: warden export name_of_jail --dir=/directory_for_warden_file This will take a while... Once done, you can import the warden file creating a new jail: warden import jail_warden_file.wdn --host=jailbird --ipv4=192.168.1.105/24 You've now got a cloned jail and a template for creating other jailed servers.
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22Apr 2014 by Tom Southerland No Comments

Solaris 11 Tips

Solaris, Technology
Static IP Solaris 11 network stack is using crossbow so network administration is completely different now. In order to switch from DHCP to a static IP, we need to do the following: # netadm enable -p ncp DefaultFixed # ipadm create-ip net0 # ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.1.21/24 net0/v4 Enable root login rolemod -K type=normal root Install Gnome pfexec pkg install --accept solaris-desktop Automated Installer If the installadm client fails to boot and you land at the grub prompt, you may be missing next-server directive in the dhcp configuration. This should follow the filename directive. # vi /etc/inet/dhcpd4.conf ... host 08002746E9C3 { hardware ethernet 08:00:27:46:E9:C3; if option arch = 00:00 { filename "0108002746E9C3.bios"; } else if option arch = 00:07 { filename "0108002746E9C3.uefi"; } next-server 192.168.2.1; }
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22Apr 2014 by Tom Southerland No Comments

VirtualBox Serial Port Console on Solaris 10

Solaris, Technology, Virtualization
If you're like me and prefer the command line to the GUI, here's a trick and script to help you manage your Solaris VMs. Enable a serial port for the VM. Enable Port 1 Port Number COM1 Port Mode: Host Pipe Create Pipe Port/File Path: /tmp/vb-VM-NAME-console Perform a reconfiguration boot on the VM. Install socat on the host system sudo apt-get install socat Change the eeprom console device for the VM: eeprom console=ttya Change the /boot/grub/menu.lst for the VM: ... # To enable grub serial console to ttya uncomment the following lines # and comment out the splashimage line below # WARNING: don't enable grub serial console when BIOS console serial # redirection is active!!! serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 terminal serial # # Uncomment the following line to enable GRUB splashimage on console #splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz # # To…
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22Apr 2014 by Tom Southerland No Comments

pm_tick Panics

Solaris Cluster, Technology
If your virtualized cluster panics with the following: Sep 8 09:18:10 node1 genunix: [ID 898738 kern.notice] Aborting node because pm_tick delay of 5492 ms exceeds 5050 ms This is common when using Solaris Cluster in a virtual machine. The following may help the issue: root@node1 # scconf -cw heartbeat_timeout=60000 root@node1 # scconf -cw heartbeat_quantum=10000
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22Apr 2014 by Tom Southerland No Comments

scinstall Reboot Fails

Solaris Cluster, Technology
If the first node fails a reboot after scinstall completes with the following errors, read on for the fix: Jan 27 11:52:50 node1 genunix: WARNING: CCR: Invalid CCR table : rgm_rt_SUNW.LogicalHostname:4 cluster global. Jan 27 11:52:50 node1 genunix: WARNING: CCR: Invalid CCR table : rgm_rt_SUNW.SharedAddress:2 cluster global. ... Jan 27 11:53:55 node1 Cluster.RGM.global.rgmd: [ID 349049 daemon.alert] CCR reported invalid table rgm_rt_SUNW.LogicalHostname:4; halting node Jan 27 11:53:55 node1 Cluster.RGM.global.rgmd: [ID 349049 daemon.alert] CCR reported invalid table rgm_rt_SUNW.SharedAddress:2; halting node The fix is to boot the node outside of cluster and repair the directory table: cd /etc/cluster/ccr/global vi directory You want to remove these two lines: rgm_rt_SUNW.LogicalHostname:4 rgm_rt_SUNW.SharedAddress:2 Save the file and bless it: ccradm recover -o directory Reboot back into cluster and proceed. After both nodes have rebooted and are in cluster mode,…
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22Apr 2014 by Tom Southerland 3 Comments

Using ZFS in OS X

Mac, Technology
I recently decided to try out the OpenZFS implementation of ZFS on my mac desktop and so far, I'm impressed. In this post, I'll cover some of the issues encountered along the way. Let me start by describing my configuration. My desktop is a hack(intosh) with Mavericks installed on two internal 1TB drives. The primary boot drive is partitioned into one big slice and I use CarbonCopy to clone this disk to the second disk. My goal is to migrate my home directories, /Users, to a ZFS mirror and keep OSX on it's own partition. This is pretty simple with two disks but I thought I would cover the steps here and hopefully help others down the ZFS path. (more…)
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