[TriLUG] Hardware problem

Seva Adari oddissyus at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 12:32:20 EDT 2012


That sounds interesting! Instead of going the KVM route, it would be
nice if I could do the same in OpenVZ container, but I doubt if they
would have a container image for a legacy redhat.

Do you know what is a low end spec for a KVM machine?

Thanks

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Sean Korb <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not everyone has new hardware available, but you can box it up using
> VMware p2v tools and then bring it up using KVM.  It's pretty elegant,
> probably will run faster and takes the hardware out of the equation.
> And on the host you could script a test to see if it was up and then
> restart it if it times out.
>
> sean
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Seva Adari <oddissyus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a legacy Redhat linux server that abruptly halts with
>> absolutely no hint of any the problem in any of the logs. I ran
>> 'smartctl' and hard drive is good. After poking around I realized that
>> every time it stops, all I have to do is yank the power cord, plug it
>> back in and start the server and it comes back up only to stop again.
>> Some times it stays up for several days and sometimes only few
>> minutes. When this problem started couple months ago, I had the power
>> supply unit replaced.
>>
>> I have some custom software on this server that is dragging the
>> transition to new hardware/software. I will definitely get to it, but
>> in the mean time I am hoping if there is anything simple I can do so I
>> can have the server stay up for some more time.
>>
>> Thanks
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>> Seva
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