[tech] Medico outage update

[Andrew Adamson]

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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