SolusVM Xen server won’t boot Every so often I have users who have an issue with their SolusVM server not booting when it was working just fine. About 99% of the times it’s because they performed a yum upgrade and replace the kernel that caused their VPS to crash and Read more…
3Ware tw_cli getting DEGRADED and ECC-ERROR on rebuild I have some older servers still running 3Ware RAID cards. They work great, and have a nice command line interface to managing things using tw_cli. I recently had a drive fail, then when I went in to do the rebuild it errored Read more…
Setting up SolusVM with IPv6 Subnets You may be like me, and read the setup documentation for SolusVM on how to setup IPv6 subnets but it doesn’t tell you what are the other things that are needed to make it work. It doesn’t tell you what ethernet interface settings need Read more…
Setting up IPv6 address on CentOS 7 All of our servers that are installed have dual stacked IPs, both IPv4 and IPv6 for consistency. Sometimes by default CentOS 7 doesn’t automatically enable to IPv6 functionality. If it doesn’t these are the items which you need to add to your network Read more…
How extend VirtualBox Windows volume I had someone ask me how to make a Windows volume larger on VirtualBox. This process is pretty easy. I’m using MacBook Air VirtualBox 5.2.10 Windows 7 These are the steps which I’ve done to expand a VirtualBox volume and Windows. Find VirtualBox Volume Path Read more…
Dell iDRAC6 Java Console Connection Timeout after OSX 10.13 Upgrade My MacBook Air laptop crashed and as a result had to reinstalled the whole so while doing that I thought why not upgrade to the newest OSX 10.13.4 Before doing that I was able to easily connect to a Dell Read more…
Kubeadm join getting error getsockopt: no route to host After installing the master node I went to add some nodes into our cluster and recieved an error. This is the error I received: [root@fuselaxnode2 ~]# kubeadm join 10.230.107.137:6443 –token TOKEN –discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:SHA_HASH [preflight] Running pre-flight checks. [WARNING FileExisting-crictl]: crictl not Read more…
Prometheus kubelet metrics server returned HTTP status 403 Forbidden Recently been working a lot with Kubernetes and needed to install some monitoring to better profile the cluster and it’s components. After doing that then doing an installation using the their deploy script. It all looked good, no errors, all the Read more…
Using kubectl on your local workstation Updated October 27, 2018: Added link to follow up article to create a Service Account with Cluster Role Binding instead of using deployment token. Now that we’ve got our Kubernetes cluster running, you’ll need to give access to your developer or admins to allow Read more…
Quick install of a Kubernetes self hosted cluster Updated October 27, 2018: Added disable chronyd before enabling ntpd This how to explains the steps I went through to install Kubernetes on a bare metal self hosted cluster in our data center. All your servers will have the same setup, with Read more…