DAY 3 LISA 2010 Linux tut

09 Nov 2010 Managing Linux in production environments.Logical volumes are done with LVM commands pv vg lvSoftware raid stuff down with mdadm commandNo integration of these two. We likely just use lvm so we can expand EMC luns.Need to investigate splitting boot mirrors. Read more...

DAY 2 LISA 2010 ZFS tut

08 Nov 2010 Day two the rain has stopped a little bit of Californian sunshine.Doing Richard's ZFS tut. 2 thumbs up so far.Would you believe I didn't know you could set the number of copies zfs keeps of a file, cool learning stuff.My random notes that won't make sense to anyone but me :-)zfs set copies=# nam... Read more...

Day 1 LISA 2010

07 Nov 2010 Wet day in San Jose, not to matter will be inside all day. Doing the S1 VMware vSphere training session, a good introduction and much needed clarification on on some of the names of products that keep changing, apparently it's also confusing inside VMware so no wonder we can't understand it.Appe... Read more...

Friday to Saturday

06 Nov 2010 A day with less driving good for me.We did some shopping and hit the outlets for a short spell, we will return later today (Saturday).We had lunch up at Healdsburg just north of Santa Rosa, a very nice little town you it's center square cover in autumn leaves.We had dinner at CA' Bianca a very n... Read more...

Friday exercise

06 Nov 2010 Friday night here and my fellow boot campers will have already completed their Saturday morning 1:30 hour session, my session not as long; 10 mins on treadmill (1.06 miles)1 minute reset30 seconds each of the following exercisesleft foot step upsright foot step upsdipspush upscrunchesplankburpee... Read more...