Sweated my arse off in Darmstadt’s Golden Krone to take a few shots of these guys playing at the ‘Nonstock’ warm-up. Click on the small ones below to enlarge, or check out the full set on my Flickr account over here.
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I’ve owned the domain ‘freebsd.cx’ for a number of years and it’s got a certain amount of history behind it that a few of you may remember. However, given CoCCA’s recent price hikes (50 USD a year!) and the fact that it’s now only used by a couple of people for email mean that I’m disinclined to fork out for the renewal fee.
If you’re still using an @freebsd.cx address I can offer you @xen.cx instead, otherwise consider it dead. RIP!
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I can’t believe how quickly the last year has gone, but we (me and Rox) have made a decision to move back to the UK towards the end of summer and this week I handed my notice in at work.
To be fair, the motivation wasn’t really the passing of time, instead there’s been a number of personal / family related stuff going on which when they’re all factored together means that somewhere closer to home is the best place to be for us both, for now.
We’ve had an amazing time out here in Darmstadt, it’s a cool place and we’ve made some great friends. But if we don’t start making plans now then before we know it another year will have passed and well, you know how that goes.
I have a three month notice period to work, so it’ll be mid to late July before I start seriously job hunting. If you hear of anything that would suit, let me know!
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Following on from Dan’s how-to regarding the configuration of SunCluster 3.2 within VMware Fusion, here’s my additional notes on doing this from a minimal install (i.e core software group) so as to keep the size of the VMs down.
First thing you’ll want to do is install some packages to make your life a bit less painful. Connect the DVD device with the Solaris 10 ISO and mount it within your VM:
# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/dsk/c0d0t0s0 /mnt/cdrom
Then we can install some packages from /mnt/cdrom/Solaris_10/Product. Let’s start off with some basic utilities, bash, and online documentation (man pages):
# yes | pkgadd -d . SUNWxcu4 # yes | pkgadd -d . SUNWadmfr SUNWadmfw # yes | pkgadd -d . SUNWbash # yes | pkgadd -d . SUNWdoc SUNWman
SSH is also quite useful:
# yes | pkgadd -d . SUNWsshr SUNWsshu SUNWsshdr SUNWsshdu SUNWsshcu # /lib/svc/method/sshd -c # svcadm enable ssh
The second command will create your RSA and DSA host keys, without this you won’t be able to connect.
Then there’s a bunch of additional prerequisite packages you need to install before SunCluster itself. These are as follows:
SUNWtcatu SUNWj3rt SUNWj3dev SUNWmfrun SUNWxwrtl SUNWxwice SUNWxwplt SUNWctpls SUNWxwfnt SUNWxwplr
You also need some Solaris Zones related gubbins otherwise you’ll see various errors pertaining to missing libraries such as libzonecfg.so.1:
SUNWzoneu SUNWzoner SUNWpool SUNWluu SUNWluzone SUNWlur SUNWpoolr SUNWlucfg
Finally, the core / reduced networking group installation also disables some RPC related services that are necessary for cluster node communication. You’ll find that installation hangs, for example, when the primary node is waiting for the secondary to reboot. To remedy this, do the following:
# svccfg -s rpc/bind setprop config/local_only = false # svccfg -s rpc/bind setprop config/enable_tcpwrappers = false # svccfg -s rpc/bind listprop # svcadm refresh rpc/bind
One other oddity I noticed was that I was seeing a bunch of RPC timeouts when looking at anything IPMP related. This turned out to be some DNS resolution going on as a result of the IP addresses assigned to the cluster interconnects and my ISP returning bullshit records. It’s easily fixed by editing /etc/nsswitch.conf and amending the ipnodes line as follows:
ipnodes: files
You should then be ready to kick off the install of SunCluster, and everything else is exactly as per Dan’s guide.
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