building a large scaled monitoring system for a customer with icinga 1.4.0 + pnp4nagios 0.6 (bulk mode with npcd), db logging. it will monitor very different stuff …. from servers to network, from esx(i) to linux machines, from firewalls to printers … good to see that all the needed software comes from the debian stable repositories (non-free). once again debian FTW !
Category: ibm
vmware
just updated some esxi hosts, merged a snapshot with a flatfile vm, switched 17 servers to different esxi hosts – vmware is a good product. now we can do even online backups with esxi 4.1 – ghettoVCB.sh http://communities.vmware.com/
docs/DOC-8760
one important thing left so say: never touch or move vms with snapshots ^^
dislike 32bit / M$ operatingsystems
need to sync every day about 1 million files from disk to network share. so far no problem, but the sync application eats up massive amounts of ram – in this case a problem because the ibm x3250 w2k3 32bit machine only got 4gb of ram. 32bit – disused. maybe a solution would be to use an os wich isn`t such a colossal turd…
new virtualization project
i`m planning a new virtualization structure for a customer. this time based on three ibm x3650 m3 machines; one machine as iSCSI target, the other two machines with vmware ESXi 4.1, for sure it will be real fun to configure one x3650 m3 as a iSCSI target – hoping debian stable will install clean without patching the kernel for raid modules or something …. 🙂