AIX : Managing service subsystem
cloudibee lssrv , stopsrc and startsrc are used to manage service subsystem in AIX. lssrc lists out all services that are active and inactive. “startsrc” and “stopsrc” are used to start…
March 2008
Netapp VIFs loadbalancing
NetApp loadbalancing algorithm for determining ethernet load balancing (vifs) differs from Cisco, so it’s normal to see unbalanced traffic in Netapp vifs. The Cisco method for determining load balancing is…
Steps to create initrd
Creating initrd using mkinitrd # mkinitrd -v -f –with=e1000 /tmp/initrd.gz 2.6.9-55 Extracting the initrd image to add contents in it # mkdir /initrdroot# cd /initrdroot# gzip -dc /tmp/initrd.gz | cpio…
Resizing ext3 filesystem
The ext3 filesystem on Linux can be resized using ext2online . This can only be done when the filesystem is online (mounted) and where the the filesystem is on a…
Windows provisioning from PXE
Two opensource solutions through which you can provision Windows servers by network booting from a Linux PXE : http://unattended.sourceforge.net/http://unattended-gui.sourceforge.net/ Good one & they worked for me.