It has been a while since my last blog post. I have been busily working on upgrading our IBM BladeCenters from RHEL 4 to latest update in RHEL 5, along with migrating Xen guests to KVM. And a lot of software got enhanced along the way in Caché, clustering, GFS, Samba, etc. And more SAN disk was provisioned (fortunately, LUN live migration) to accommodate larger storage needs for database growth and new virtual environments.
Then there have been the upgrades on my personal workstation housing this web site on its own KVM virtual guest. I opted to upgrade beyond the Fedora-supplied WordPress 2.8 to the latest 3.0.1 using WordPress automatic upgrade. I did this mainly because I wanted to replace the software tab with downloads instead, using a new plugin to make for a spiffier files section.
I do not have a SAN for LUN live migration operations, but I accomplished the same by merely appending 10gb of filespace for this KVM guest’s disk:
dd if=/dev/zero of=newroot.img oflag=append bs=8192 count=1310720 conv=notrunc kpartx -a newroot.img fdisk /dev/loop0 vgscan vgchange -a y vg_hurst lvextend -L +10G /dev/vg_hurst/lv_root resize2fs /dev/vg_hurst/lv_root vgchange -a y vg_hurst kpartx -d newroot.img
Speaking of opting away from a yum repository, for some fun, I upgraded to the latest Stella 3.2.1 over what is available in RPMFusion, because it has a lot of new enhancements and features that make this Atari 2600 emulator priceless. And speaking of Atari, I added another Java-based emulator in JStella to my retrocomputing page. Yep, it has been quite a full month of upgrades.
