On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Kyle Gonzales wrote:
to get the LVM up and running first. As floppy and CD drives are
increasingly a rarity on server grade hardware, this seems reasonable,
as accessing a rescue image 'across the wire' is fairly challenging, as
it is not often done by most admins
I call BS on that. In fact, my previous email told you exactly how
sysadmins do make a rescue environment easily available to their servers
using the available hardware features.
Call as you will -- I looked at data. Networked out of band
recovery (ILO and the like) are available only on about a
third of the units in a data cabinet I just inventoried. The
rest of the servers use serial consoles or do without. It may
be that the design livecycle of server hardware is three to
five years, but older kit gets repurposed rather than scrapped
This disinterest in supporting older kit is also shown in Red
Hat's move to KVM and away from Xen based virtualization. If
you do not have the right hardware support, you'll not be
running virtualization with the new RHEL release -- no
para-virt support any more. As such most laptops also get
'cut out' from running VM's unless a third party product is
used (there is a packaging of Xen that conflicts with KVM,
with but will install and run just fine)
-- Russ herrold
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