Ran into slow boot on ubuntu 18.04 with local keys for usb drives with luks the magic to avoid slow boot if usb is missing is to add the noauto option in /etc/crypttab e.g. crypt tab entry foo UUID=bar /root/.bletch luks,noauto
Using data reported by Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation during the 155 weeks ending June 28, 2013, there were credit default swaps traded on only 13 reference names among U.S. banking firms: Bank of America Corporation Morgan Stanley The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Citigroup Inc. Wells Read more
After many days of banging my head against how to get 18.04 installed with raid1, crypt, and lvm on new disks from alternative server iso, the crux was the 1mb bios boot partition at the beginning of both disks. Without that I’d get all the way through the install and Read more
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/move-running-process-screen-bruce-werdschinski/
https://tutorials.technology/tutorials/move-luks-encrypted-disk.html
#take a snapshot xe vm-snapshot new-name-label= vm= #convert back to a vm xe template-param-set is-a-template=false uuid= #export xe vm-export vm=(newname) filename= #cleanup-snapshot xe vm-uninstall uuid= from: http://serverfault.com/questions/489184/export-xenserver-snapshot-as-file-via-console
I was used to using smartctl -a -d megaraid,0 /dev/sda to get SMART info from my physical disks now with the LSISAS1068E (perc 6) I can get it with: smartctl -a /dev/sg0 or smartctl -a /dev/sg1 to see the physical disks /dev/sg2 is just about the same as /dev/sda
https://docs.citrix.com/content/dam/docs/en-us/xenserver/xenserver-7-0/downloads/xenserver-7-0-installation-guide.pdf states: The Control Domain: Also known as ‘Domain0’, or ‘dom0’, the Control Domain is a secure, privileged Linux VM (based on a CentOS 7.2 distribution) that runs the XenServer management toolstack. Besides providing XenServer management functions, the Control Domain also runs the driver stack that provides user created Virtual Read more
download a bunch of the buggers for file in XS*.zip;do foo=`basename -s .zip $file`; unzip $file; bar=`xe patch-upload file-name=${foo}.xsupdate`;xe patch-apply uuid=$bar host-uuid=YOUR_HOST_UUID;done you’ll probably want to add an rm of the zip file and an rm of the xsupdate file (exercise for the reader) This won’t work for XS70E002 and Read more