How to change ipmi password

You can use ipmitool and simple way for now is If you end up getting IPMI command failed: Request data field length limit exceededSet User Password command failed (user 2) Its because Supermicro does not permit simple passwords for BMC users unless they comply with requirements: use lowercase, capital, numbers and special characters

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2TB+ disk in linux

Today I was installing a system. I had a storage pool and carved out a 2.5TB disk as .qcow2 and did my centos6 install on that disk. After install when I looked to new os via virt-man I realized it did not see the drive at all. After some search I realized there is always […]

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X-forwarding in Vagrant

I was trying to get x-forwarding work on vagrant for using mysql workbench on my dev vagrant box and was able to do that by adding following to my vagrant file Vagrant.configure(2) do |config| … config.ssh.forward_x11 = true end And after VM is up vagrant ssh — -X was all I had to do to […]

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MaxRequestsPerChild Directive in Apache 2.2

One of our servers run on apache which has mpm_winnt_module enabled. I was seeing memory consumption going up by time. Recently I checked httpd.conf to see it had directives configured correctly and discovered MaxRequestsPerChild 0MaxRequestsPerChild 0 Again based on Apache documentation setting MaxRequestsPerChild to a non-zero value limits the amount of memory that process can […]

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