Novell recently released Platespin Migrate 9, which should address some Linux P2V issues we’ve been running into. Namely, that you can only migrate a Linux server in offline or “TakeControl” mode. We’ve been running into issues where network speed settings have prevented us from moving data from source to target – for example, if you’ve [...]
This post by Marcel van den Berg just saved my sanity today since I could not make heads or tails of what my beloved Platespin server was trying to tell me: Preparing <servername> (under PlateSpin control) For Synchronization No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:5036 Description: several one time synchronizations [...]
If you haven’t heard about disk alignment and you’re using virtual machines, you owe it to yourself and your most-likely-growing infrastructure to understand what alignment is all about. On a small scale it’s almost unnoticeable. But I can tell you that on a large scale it becomes a major pain for you or your storage [...]