Personal Thoughts

Insights from the AWS summit Berlin 2024

As I walked into the AWS Summit in Berlin, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The atmosphere was electric, with attendees buzzing about the latest innovations in cloud computing and AI. As someone who follows the industry closely, I was eager to see what the summit was going to present.

As …

Managing Stress and Fostering Creativity in Your Startup Team

General Startup Life Team Health PreSales Personal Thoughts

As a manager at a startup, you know that stress and creativity are intertwined. While a moderate amount of stress can be motivating, unchecked stress can stifle innovation and hinder growth. As your team scales, it's crucial to strike a balance between these two forces.

Understanding Stress in Startups

Stress, much …

Great Script to tidy Up our Photos

Ruby OpenSource Personal Thoughts SystemAdmin Tweets

I was looking for a way to tidy up out photos on the NAS at home and have tried a number of things that just did not fit the bill.

they were either just to difficult or completely wrong.

i then stumbled upon this blog post http://falesafe.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/photo-management/

What a gem. if you can install ruby on …

Quest NDS Migrator LogFile Parser

Personal Thoughts OpenSource Powershell Programming SystemAdmin

I am currently helping a customer migrate from Novell to Microsoft and they are using the Quest migrator product to move their data to new DFS servers.

They currently have a large amount of data stored on a number of volumes. The sheer number of volumes and data have required that they deploy a large number of the copy …

My interesting way to end a week.

The Snake and I Personal Thoughts

This is an account of Thursday the 29th of September 2011 when my cynical view on Londoners only thinking of themselves and not wanting to get involved with other peoples troubles was blown completely out of the water thanks to some really amazing people who I don't have names for but would really love to thank from …
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How to copy custom attributes when migrating vmware vcenter to new database

General Personal Thoughts Linux Programming VMware

I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues.

The current vcenter has a few custom attributes and notes that would not be transferred as part of the move.

So I wanted to use powercli to read the attributes out and put them back.

To export the …

Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD Part 2

Linux OpenSource Personal Thoughts Ubuntu VMware

This blog is a follow on from a blog post I wrote ages ago and have eventually got round to finishing it off In this part of the process we will create the disks and setup the DRBD devices First we need to connect to the Virtual Machines from a terminal session as it makes life much easier and quicker when you connect …
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ESX Trunk VLAN config for Storage

General Personal Thoughts VMware Linux Nexenta

I was struggling with an install of ESXi on a cisco 6509 switch where the management and VM LAN connectivity worked just fine but for some reason the SAN NFS VLAN just did not want to communicate with the Nexenta on that VLAN.

After some searching and trial and error I was able to utilise this post …

Connecting ESXi 4.1 to extreme x650 10G switches

General Personal Thoughts VMware

I am busy working on a contract with a company that is implementing a 10G network for their ESX cluster.

We have been using extreme X650 10G copper switches for the core.

Migrating the current servers to the 10G environment was relatively easy and went with minimal issues.

Over the last 2 weeks I have been trying to …

Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD

Linux OpenSource Personal Thoughts Ubuntu VMware

Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD To create this cluster you will need 2 ubuntu node servers installed as follows.

I am creating this cluster inside of vMware so I created 2 VM's with:

1GB RAM

1 10GB hdd for the root (/) partition.

1 20GB hdd for the database store.

I downloaded the ubuntu 9.10 …