Category Archives: DataCenter

Storage: Optimize SSDs with fstrim

By | January 10, 2017

Using SSD drives is no longer an exception, they are used in home systems but also in server systems to hold at least the OS, or other resources that need more speed than space. As any other storage disk a SSD can become fragmented as successive write/delete operations will try to use the available storage.… Read More »

#DRBD: Synchronization of sites after the failed DR (disaster recovery) site is recovered

By | April 24, 2017

This is a follow-up tutorial on the DRBD replication posts about resynchronization of sites after the failed DR site is recovered. More than a year ago I described in a long tutorial how to use DRBD in a real production environment and the challenges associated to it. See: DRBD based disk replication of a production… Read More »

#DRBD: Resynchronization of sites after the failed PR site is recovered (DRBD split brain recovery)

By | March 6, 2017

This is a follow-up tutorial on the DRBD replication posts about resynchronization of sites after the failed PR site is recovered (DRBD split brain recovery). More than a year ago I described in a long tutorial how to use DRBD in a real production environment and the challenges associated to it. See: DRBD based disk… Read More »

#DRBD: Promoting the DR site as the main site when PR is failed

By | March 6, 2017

This is a follow up tutorial on the DRBD replication posts about promoting the DR site as the main site when PR is failed. More than a year ago I described in a long tutorial how to use DRBD in a real production environment and the challenges associated to it. See: DRBD based disk replication… Read More »

#DRBD: Gracious role switching of live sites configured with DRBD replication

By | March 6, 2017

This is a follow up tutorial on the DRBD replication posts about gracious role switching of live sites configured with DRBD replication. More than a year ago I described in a long tutorial how to use DRBD in a real production environment and the challenges associated to it. See: DRBD based disk replication of a… Read More »

Docker: Install a Nexus Raw Repository for Docker-compose files

By | December 14, 2016

This is a continuation of the post Install a Nexus Repository. In the following I will describe how to deploy a raw maven repository for the docker-compose files, docker make files and other text files. This repository will be used as the main entry point to the docker repository. STEP 1: Create a raw repository… Read More »

#Docker: Install a #Nexus Repository

By | May 26, 2017

I had the task to find a way to store centrally docker containers of enterprise applications. The following constraints had to be met: – the containers should be used for QA and training by people who do not need to know the details of deploying complicated enterprise application environments. Docker-compose files will be used to… Read More »

Blog Links: Infinit Storage

By | February 8, 2017

A very interesting distributed storage solution Infinit Storage Platform. So interesting that the small company that implemented it was bought by Docker. By the way it has a docker plugin so can be mounted as a volume in any docker container. Looks like a very nice way of having a distributed, high availability storage with… Read More »

ILO: Get the ILO IP from a Linux host server

By | December 4, 2016

In case your HP ILO is set to DHCP there is the need to find out what is the allocated IP in case you do not have access to the cosole. The easiest way is to use ipmi tools. STEP 1 : Install ipmi tools # dnf install ipmitools STEP 2: Load the ipmi kernel… Read More »

IT Traveller: Failed airport technology

By | March 11, 2017

I travel quite often across the world for job related purposes. Being an IT guy that does servers installations, develops and deploys enterprise software across the world I am always noticing everyting that is IT related. It is always fun to see failed tech in airports I transit or in hotels where I stay. Failed… Read More »