How to Recover an Out of Sync Mariadb Galera OpenStack Database cluster

Introduction This process can be used whenever your databases are out of sync. For example when someone without thinking reboots all nodes in a cluster without shutting down the databases first. Resolution Place all cluster hosts into standby mode and cleanup any failed resources. I sugguest making a back-up of Mariadb on each controller nodes … Continue reading How to Recover an Out of Sync Mariadb Galera OpenStack Database cluster

XenServer 6: There Was an Error Connecting to the Server. The Service Did Not Reply Properly

GoombaWow, this is a really overly complicated error for such a simple problem to resolve. Allow me to give you some background. I am currently building my first production ready (well non-production really) XenServer cluster and ran into this issue when attempting to add my second host into the cluster. I hit google and found out that this was actually just a dns issue.

Cisco UCS Failover Via 6248 CLI

Need to fail over Cisco UCS Manager from one 6248 to another. Oh did I mention that you are in a hurry because you are going to have to sift through pages and pages of pdfs to get the information. I found this out the hard way. Anyway, out of the kindness of my heart I have documented this process below.

How Not to Assign KVM IP Addresses Via Cisco UCS Manager

After a few hours poking around a newly deployed UCS cluster trying to get some basic profiles created and assigned. I realized that I had actually no idea how the KVM is actually supposed to work inside the UCS cluster. Which is funny as this was a subject that we touched on during my DCUDC class. Apparently we did not touch on it enough.