Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Virtual Server management- open source style

I really want to try the VMWare player for openqrm. It has all kinds of crazy features:


Support for different virtualization technologies

VMware, Xen, KVM and Linux-VServer vms can be managed transparently via openQRM. openQRM seamlessly support P2V (physical to virtual), V2P (virtual to physical) AND V2V (virtual to virtual) migration. This mean server appliances can not only move from physical to virtual (and back) easily but also that they can be migrated from virtualization technology A to virtualization technology B without any hassle.

Fully automatic Nagios configuration (single click) to monitor all systems and services

High-availability : "N to 1" fail-over

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

F5 sync troubleshooting

Found a secret command for troubleshooting sync on F5 BigIP: csTest.pl

csTest.pl 

It only has a few switches. -q (or --q) for quiet just outputs the bottom line, or -v or --v for verbose (seems similar to the default for me, but may include something else).

Anyway it will tell you what is wrong with sync as configured.  It will report sync errors, time differences, username/password problems, error in ip configuration of sync, etc. etc.