Archive for December, 2010
Two days of outage
Recently I had an unpleasant experience when I found my small blog unavailable whilst a day before it was up and running at full speed. Thankfully, the support team that stands behind my VPS box recovered the system from their backup quite rapidly putting it back on stage. The data were intact so there was […]
An error during APA creation
If you see an error message like this “unplumb operation for lan was unsuccessful” when creating APA interface double check that all members of APA configuration are down and none of them has an IP address assigned.
Khor Virap – Noravank – Tatev
That was one on those rare days filled to the brims both with the breathtaking views and the spectacular historical places. We covered 500 km. and it took us a whole day to get to Tatev from Yerevan. Here are just a few photos I’d like to share. Now I’ve got a clear understanding of […]
Expanding SB40c with hpacucli
One of the tasks that we had to deal with during the last trip was to expand SB40c blade storage by replacing 4x146GB SAS disks with 6x30GB SAS disks. Preferably, this operation should be done online causing our client a zero downtime. Since these 4x146GB had been configured into RAID10 the initial idea was quite […]
Armenia. Garni – Gehdard
Today, as a worm up for tomorrows journey to Tatev, we had a quick trip to Garni. It’s such a beautiful place and I have a few photos to give you a taste of what it’s like:
Yerevan. Armenia.
Yes, I’m in Yerevan and will spend at last the next two weeks here doing random SA’s stuff from installing HP-UX and HP hardware to migrating Veritas Cluster to a new node and configuring space-ptimized snapshots.