Want to puke without any food in your belly ?
This is the documentary for you "Bumfights Presents - Terrorists, Killers and Middle East Wackos "
I got this one from my regular nightly routine , Start->Firefox->Bookmarks->Mininova->Documentaries -> Sort by seeds.
The entire doc film runs for about an hour with short video clippings which contain beheadings , chopping up of genitals , disembowelling , amputating limbs, general slaughter, rape , stoning , shooting and road/air/boat accidents.
All of the above with "happy happy" country music in the background.
The psychopath in you , will be interested in hearing the guttural sounds made when a throat is slit or the subdued whimper which follows a few bullets in the torso.
For me , I've lost enough bile to need an intravenous drip.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Matrix
There were 8 servers connected to one of our switches, each contributing 4 nics.
Each NIC supposed to be on a separate VLAN.
After the power maint. on the weekend, we found that our VLAN config got all mixed up.
Now one pair of servers had all 8 nics on one VLAN, with next pair of servers on another VLAN and so on.(!)
Conveniently we had forgotten the switch password.
Now the only way to reset this on cisco is to get a console cable connected to serial port of a laptop
and play with the mode button.
Wasn't enough time for that ( and we didn't find a console cable) , so we had to "transpose" the VLAN matrix.
The VLANs were EST (tagged on the switch ports) , so had to rejig all cables to get the original config back.
That's not easy if you throw in patch panels and unlabelled cables into this mess.
6 hours of manual labour on a Sunday ? That's real dedication , mate !
Each NIC supposed to be on a separate VLAN.
After the power maint. on the weekend, we found that our VLAN config got all mixed up.
Now one pair of servers had all 8 nics on one VLAN, with next pair of servers on another VLAN and so on.(!)
Conveniently we had forgotten the switch password.
Now the only way to reset this on cisco is to get a console cable connected to serial port of a laptop
and play with the mode button.
Wasn't enough time for that ( and we didn't find a console cable) , so we had to "transpose" the VLAN matrix.
The VLANs were EST (tagged on the switch ports) , so had to rejig all cables to get the original config back.
That's not easy if you throw in patch panels and unlabelled cables into this mess.
6 hours of manual labour on a Sunday ? That's real dedication , mate !
Fabric issues
I wonder if anyone's got the hang of Lefthand Networks VSA.
Not as simple to configure like Netapp or a Clariion in my opinion.
The thing has just too many areas to look at for getting stuff done.
I figure it's still better to use the VSA ,than the aging CX-320 for ISCSI.
Don't want to do too much to that old beast , its too cranky.
The other thing that cranky is our fabric.
I had shutdown our switches before a scheduled power maintenance on Sat.
On the brocades I ran a normal sysshutdown.
Come Monday after power them on, and this switch is acting all weird, the web interface doesn't work and
even a "zone show" results in "Fabric busy try again later" ??
Rebooted it , still the same issue .
I had to perform a persistent disable of the switch , fast boot it , then re-enable config to get it to work.
Dunno what was the RCA , I guess I need someone with a BCFP to analyse the supportshow dump for me (Or I should get one myself)
Not as simple to configure like Netapp or a Clariion in my opinion.
The thing has just too many areas to look at for getting stuff done.
I figure it's still better to use the VSA ,than the aging CX-320 for ISCSI.
Don't want to do too much to that old beast , its too cranky.
The other thing that cranky is our fabric.
I had shutdown our switches before a scheduled power maintenance on Sat.
On the brocades I ran a normal sysshutdown.
Come Monday after power them on, and this switch is acting all weird, the web interface doesn't work and
even a "zone show" results in "Fabric busy try again later" ??
Rebooted it , still the same issue .
I had to perform a persistent disable of the switch , fast boot it , then re-enable config to get it to work.
Dunno what was the RCA , I guess I need someone with a BCFP to analyse the supportshow dump for me (Or I should get one myself)
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