Apr
24
Floods and backup
April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
“I live by the river” - The Clash
So we’ll meet this evening with the primary focus being the backup machine. The plan is to mount the machine on the wall and use the KVM over cat5 adapters to manage it from the server room upstairs. The wall mounting will avoid having the machine on the […]
Apr
16
Realizing Virtualization
April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Q: So what happens when you reboot a host machine (accidentally in case of realizing this point)?
A: The virtual machines don’t automagically restart. This needs to be fixed and to do so we need to finish installing vmware tools and implement Rick’s cool vmd (virtual machine daemon) that by tomorrow night will be completed.
Q: What […]
Apr
9
We’ve been remiss over the last few weeks with some of the AV maintenance that we should move on. In that vein we’ll work on formalizing the remote volume in the choir loft. There may be some other Sanctuary issues to move on as well. On the IT side of the house we need to […]
Apr
2
Let’s start by finishing
April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
There are currently many balls in the air, at least on the IT side, and I’d like to wind some things down. So here’s my list:
Desktop updates - we need to do a round of making sure that desktop software is up to date, and complete. Jed’s CD can form the checklist that we work […]