[tech] Medico outage update

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Isn't this the second time this has happened to you bob?
:-P

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"Don't blame, learn"

On 22/02/2015 8:59 PM, Andrew Adamson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick update on what happened to medico on Friday night. Proxmox
> needed to be upgraded from 2 (squeeze) to 3 (wheezy) because the web
> interface was becoming unusable on version 2. I also want to set up the VM
> cluster with maltair with all of them on the same version. Semester kinda
> snuck up on me and I wanted to get this done before it started, so sorry
> for the (very) short notice.
>
> Unfortunately during the upgrade, the new version of grub that was to be
> installed was too big to fit in the allocated space on the disk. I was at
> home at this point so tried to fix it remotely with little success. [TPG]
> managed to get it booting using grub on a usb stick on Saturday morning,
> and [DAA] is working on a permanent fix for it now.
>
> Aside from the bootloader, the rest of the upgrade went well, although no
> machines started at boot because my partial cluster configuration meant
> there was no quorum between only two hosts - they can be manually started
> though. I'll be working on finishing the cluster setup in the next week or
> so.
>
> Andrew Adamson
> bob at ucc.asn.au
>
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