In Xsan 2, MultiSAN was introduced. MultiSAN allows you to assign different sets of primary, secondary and tertiary metadata controllers to volumes. This provides a performance benefit for some environments that have saturated resources on a given metadata controller. However, MultiSAN does not allow you to build separate SANs. All of the volumes are still members of that single “Xsan”, meaning that volumes can be mounted and/or controlled for any of the clients. You can have 2 volumes, each with a dedicated metadata controller, but both sharing a single backup metadata controller. You can also have 2 volumes, each with a dedicated metadata controller that fails over to the other…
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Post at Xsanity on Active Storage
Posted a little article on Xsanity about the new press releases from Active Storage regarding Innerpool and Active Stats. You can find it here: http://www.xsanity.com/article.php/20100415165329925
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Greensforged
A video on a big steel mousepad, full of “awesomeness.” Thanks to Chris for pointing out their site. To counterbalance such a thing here’s a link to having some Eco-Friendly mouse pads made.
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Resetting a WordPress Password
Sometimes you can bite yourself a little when you experiment around with things. I installed a security plug-in and the next thing you know I couldn’t log into my own website. Ouch. Not a huge deal as it actually led to experimentation with the MySQL tables for WordPress, which oddly enough, I’ve typically just left well enough alone. But this I figured was gonna’ need to be updated eventually (although I relished the opportunity to get caught up on some stuff in the meantime). So first up, SSH into your box. Then fire up mysql: mysql -u root -p Turns out there’s a wp_users table in there. For my user…
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iBook iPad Video
Perhaps it’s time to write a book for the iPad?
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Goodbye OpenSolaris/OpenStorage, Hello OpenFiler/OpenDedup
I’ve read a number of reports over the past couple of days that indicate the demise of Project Wonderland and Open Solaris. As it is open source I would not be surprised to see the project continue, even if forked and retitled in some way. Oracle will continue selling Solaris, but “nothing is for free” is about to take on a whole new meaning. For now it seems that any plans around packaging services around the FOSS stack surrounding former Sun products should be put on hold until further official announcements are made. “So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las…