Re: after installing ubuntu-server, HDD's are not detected in AHCI mode

2010-06-06 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ante Karamatić @ 06/06/2010 07:57 PM: > On 07.06.2010 00:42, scar wrote: > >> i am really leaning towards a bug with ubuntu. > > Well if the same setup works on other machines of the same type, except > that one, I would suspect that there is a pr

Re: tips setting up DRBD and hearbeat to create high-availability virtual machines

2010-06-06 Thread Ante Karamatić
On 07.06.2010 00:27, scar wrote: > we have two identical, physical servers with identical hardware. i > wanted to set them up with several virtual machines (www, ftp, mail, > etc.) and then use DRBD and Heartbeat to make the VM's highly available. You can't use heartbeat as a cluster resource ma

Re: after installing ubuntu-server, HDD's are not detected in AHCI mode

2010-06-06 Thread Ante Karamatić
On 07.06.2010 00:42, scar wrote: > i am really leaning towards a bug with ubuntu. Well if the same setup works on other machines of the same type, except that one, I would suspect that there is a problem with hardware. My personal experience with Sun hardware is actually quite bad, so i I avoi

Re: after installing ubuntu-server, HDD's are not detected in AHCI mode

2010-06-06 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 i am really leaning towards a bug with ubuntu. after changing the BIOS back to IDE mode and thus detecting the disks, i booted up a livecd and proceeded to simply delete the partitions on the disks with gparted. then, rebooted and changed the BIOS

tips setting up DRBD and hearbeat to create high-availability virtual machines

2010-06-06 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 hey list, i am pretty green to setting up linux servers but, it's what i've fallen into at the moment. i really like ubuntu-desktop and it looks like ubuntu-server has everything we need, so i jumped right in. we have two identical, physical serve

Re: VMs: creating from bare metal install?

2010-06-06 Thread Mark van Harmelen
Serge and Hennign, thanks Just some informational replies: Serge Sou mentioned "if you prefer Xen, go with Debian Lenny, or CentOS 5.5." We are pretty much limited to Ubuntu for this config, we are running a specific customised version of (the generally flakey) Red5 open source media server tha

Re: VMs: creating from bare metal install?

2010-06-06 Thread Serge van Ginderachter
On 6 June 2010 12:10, Mark van Harmelen wrote: > Has anyone got any experience converting a bare metal server to a virtual > image? For some free target, maybe KVM or one of the Xen products. Xen is > run by one of our friend-companies, so there is a slight preference for > that. We are intereste

Re: VMs: creating from bare metal install?

2010-06-06 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi Mark, On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Mark van Harmelen wrote: > I have no experience of virtualisation, apart from running VirtualBox here > and there, and I'm wondering if anyone has an easy-to-do recommendation for > me, please. There are many virtualization solutions and setups out there

VMs: creating from bare metal install?

2010-06-06 Thread Mark van Harmelen
Hi everyone I have no experience of virtualisation, apart from running VirtualBox here and there, and I'm wondering if anyone has an easy-to-do recommendation for me, please. We've been rebuilding one of our server set-ups that is fairly complex. Its on 9.10. Has anyone got any experience conver