Moving hosts

Decided to bite the bullet and move hosts, mostly because of some missing features here at WordPress.com. I’ve moved over to DreamHost.com‘s hosting which seems to be pretty good for the price. Please adjust your bookmarks to: http://blog.jasonruiz.com/

Posts since then:

OpenSolaris Storage with iSCSI on ZFS

VLAN Trunking with DD-WRT and a Catalyst 2950-24

I’ve been a bit lazy lately with setting up my home lab, mostly because I wanted to do everything in order. I had already gotten vSphere on all 4 of my servers, but I needed to setup my switch to communicate with the outside word. I was having a bit of difficultly since I wanted to have VLANs for this setup and I only have a L2 switch. And an FYI, I am by no means a networking person, take my experience with a grain of salt.

Modifying Public Folder Client Permissions in Exchange 2007

Recently at work I’ve had to do several changes to some of the calendars we have stored on the Public Folders. This used to be real simple prior to 2007 which we had until recently, but in the new EMC I find no hide nor hare of client permissions for Public Folders and I myself did not have the necessary permissions to change these anymore(I don’t know if this was intentional, our environment was seriously borked post migration). After researching I found most of it had been moved over to Powershell, I gladly accepted working with it. I had previously only had to correct one folder post migration, that was until I received a request for 12 folders located in one subfolder. I first had to fix my permissions, then the end user’s for the request. I’m really not going to correct it system wide, since that is not in my job function, so for now I just do this on a case by case basis.

Doing one folder is quite simple:

Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity \”Folder” -AccessRights “Rights” -User “User”

Rights can be done either by Role or actual permission, I suggest using roles.

Luckily for my problem, Microsoft provided a Powershell script that recursively adds permissions for all subfolders/items in a folder.

AddUsersToPFRecursive.ps1  –TopPublicFolder \”Folder” –User  “User” –Permissions “Permissions”

After using this, it’ll trickle down the folder and add the necessary permissions. Now I could easily manage them myself.

Adding iSCSI storage to KVM with Virsh(CLI)

As a follow up to my previous post, here’s one way of doing it via virsh.

Free book!

I’d like to thank Hannah Drake over at TechTarget for the free book she gave me in their moving give away!

Community Lab

Sid Smith has posted a great initiative to provide the community a free open ESXi lab. Please donate if you can!

Updates

-Somehow I forgot a part, call it monotonus screenshoting.  I’ve added the section into my post about the Celerra for creating the LUN.

-I just added the new RAM I got for my servers in to all 4 of them, and by my guestiments, the rack and switch should arrive tomorrow.

-In the process of doing some research on LUN masking in Linux, hopefully to provide some steps to do this inside of Openfiler.

Podcasts

Updated the links for the 2 podcasts I’ve been having fun listening too. I can’t get tired of Storagezilla and his downtalking.