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automatically returning a host to the unprovisioned server pool in hpsa

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In conjunction with the customized PXE process I wrote about previously, it could be highly desirable to be able to return a server to the unprovisioned server pool in HP’s Server Automation. This is a specifically-Linux procedure: though I’m sure something similar can be done with Windows*. run an ad-hoc script against a target server that…

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gee, thanks red hat, amd, and vmware

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At least the publicly-searchable knowledge base had something. I tried searching for “Kernel panic – not syncing: Fatal Exception” and “RIP” and “cpuid4_cache_lookup”. And wouldn’t you know it! There’s a known issue if you try to install RHEL >5.4 x64 on ESXi 4.x if it’s running on AMD 6000 series CPUs. Guess what – we’re…

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symlinks and nfs

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I recently discovered an interesting “feature” of symbolic links in conjunction with NFS mounts: they don’t work! For example, let’s say you have the following NFS export: /media/files Inside of that export, you have the following path: /media/files/isos/osmedia/linux/ubuntu In *this* directory, you have a symlink called ‘current‘, which points to a different location: current ->…

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