Migrate IBM SVC Luns to IBM V7000 Storage

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It is possible to move SVC luns to IBM V7000 storage It is not an online way but only small outage to move I/O operation to V7000. To start operation you need to complete these requirements:

  • connect V7000 as an external storage to SVC
  • All luns which you will migrate have to be thick provisioned. If lun is thin provisioned you can create a thick copy and after that delete thin provisioned copy.

Then we can start migration process.

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Custom logging for Netscaler backed Apache – See Netscaler Client-IP header in log files.

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In Netscaler backed apache web servers’ access_log files you can only see Netscaler Ip address. For statistics calculation it is hard to determine how many unique clients visited your website.

To see client’s ip adresses in log files you have to change apache config to set new log format.

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Changing MySql Database root Password

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To change MySql database root password We have to restart MySql server with skip_grant_table option.

Edit my.cnf for linux file or my.ini file for windows and add following line in this file.

skip_grant_table=1

Then restart MySql Service. After restart you can log in MySql server without using password.

Change root password by running.

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Mounting vmfs Formatted Disks to Windows Machine

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I used java based code to mount vmfs disk as read only. All extra information and usage details can be found at this website.
I have java installed at “C:\Program Files (x86)\Java”
I have downloaded java code and copied in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin” in vmfs_r95 folder.
Now you can run java code by executing following:

Making ESXi 5.0 USB Pendrive

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It is possible to copy Esxi 5.0 installation cd content to USB pendrive in order to install Esxi 5.0. Also you can boot from this pendrive and install ESXi 5.0 on it.

Prepareation in windows OS:

First format USB drive with FAT 32.
Make this USB drive bootable using *syslinux.exe version 3.86
Usage: If USB drive letter is E;

syslinux.exe -a -m E: