Thursday, September 30, 2010

Trying new version of #twitter

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Joining the conference call w/ #Australian team

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Want to throw emails into #Cloud
Too many emails
Too blue
Blue is good, but not too blue
Fixing
Document #defect. Trace in log & find image.gz required, but doc says to create in image.img

Monday, September 27, 2010

#KVM resource pool configured successfully.
Wish to have a best practice of #KVM @ #ISDM
There is no detailed doc @ #ISDM to configure KVM, even it claims to officially support. Referencing #TivSAM, but file path diff
Modifying #cloud.property for #KVM resource pool
Planning to go to #Melbourne, #Australia for #Cloud project this weekend
Waiting for call w/ my boss
On call w/ team on new product/ solution planning
Editing #KVM cloud.property file
Preparing #KVM environment. #ISDM is #diff from #TivSAM
Provisioning #Windows + #Linux all succeed. Oohoo. Snapshot all images. #milestone
Becoming #VMware master. Good or not?
Unlock publisher signature verification in #Windows for #shutdown.bat

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Installing #TPM agent on #Linux physical box
Skill gained & piled
#Cygwin env might not be correctly set. Checking
Contacted customer, described the scope of project + our commitment on supportability. Customer agreed
I'm going to deploy monitoring agent #ITM #Tivoli
#sshd daemon @ #cygwin in #Windows didn't start properly
#Linux provisioning finishes & becomes available in 10 minutes when notification mail sent/ received
#Gateway problem fixed. Issue caused by VMware default vLAN fooling provisioned VM. Removing #VMware #vLAN and change #network mode gives us a greenlight
Multiple #vLAN is tricky!
Chatting w/ #developer to #debug
Comparing & diff'ing another #ISDM env @ SJZ we set up last week. #Gateway entry is empty as well. Only diff is we're @ 2 vLANs right now
#Debugging why gateway hasn't been successfully populated @ #Windows
Work as a #project manager
Sending project update to customer in both English + Chinese :P
Leaving for today. Waiting for log/ msg. Seems hanging now
4 times.
#Provisioning #Windows fails 3 times due to missing file @ template. #Weird
Requesting latest code access via SVN
Re- configure #Google #Buzz
Starting #Windows #provisioning
15 minutes to complete #Linux #provisioning on #ESX
After disabling multi NICs @ #DCM, #provisioning #Linux successful @ 2nd time. #Oohoo
Having 2 #vLANs - mgmt + resource pools. #Provisioning #linux not successful @ 1st time.
Starting #provisioning a #redhat #Linux @ resource pool.
Requested to write a 20 minutes quick test on #Linux for tomorrow's new hire interview.
3G lvm sizing is insufficient. Increasing to 5G. Redo :P
brctl addif br0 eth0; sleep 10; shutdown -r now # Connection gets lost from this point!
brctl addbr br0
#vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scrips/ifcfg-br0, ifcfg-eth0 by document

Saturday, September 25, 2010

#yum install kvm virt-manager
Create /etc/yum.repo.d/Server.repo; /etc/yum/repo.d/VT.repo
cd /pool/rhel54; createrepo Server; createrepo VT
cp -var /mnt/rhel_iso/* /pool/rhel54/
mount -o loop -t iso9660 /pool/rhel54.iso /mnt/rhel_iso
cp -var rhel54.iso /pool
#ITM #Monitoring agent has been placed in #repository mount point @ #ISDM. Nice & speedy.
#SSL & #https disabled over #proxy @ customer site :(
VolGroup00 is ready after #RHEL installation complete & reboot
Preparing #Redhat #Linux w/ #pv then #lv (must be #VolGroup00 as hard- coded) for #provisioning image
Researching diff timezones impact on #provisioning timing. Being confused now
Backup all original, appended tar & untar'd files. Total ~100GB
How to setup #AIX #VIO server http://ping.fm/oBEBn #lpar #cloud #provisioning #dynamic
11MB+/bps #transfer #rate between 2 #datacenter
Backup all files for #Australia
Connecting #HMC
Lily loves to document everything @ work then I love #Lily :)
#Life is too short and too important to use #Windows.
Documenting topology & architectural overview
No VPN avail to company. Internet only @ customer site
Continue #ISDM configuration today
#Maximo UI appears. Indicating all configuration are correct.
Getting internet access has to go through approval process @ customer site. We're in a blocked network.
#TivSAM image loaded & launched successfully. Get into #Cloud now

Friday, September 24, 2010

Looking for #vio license key to enable #PowerVM via #HMC
#OVF profiles created & uploaded onto system.
Loading #TivSAM image into #ESX. 2 hours
#Efficient call in 26 minutes
Internal meeting done. Solution & leadership agreed by all parties
Creating repo, then install samba via yum
Running on 8c16g boxes. Fast and lovely
Untar appended files into #vmdk images
#TivSAM big tar file #md5sum verified correctly. Oohoo. Last time this step wasted us 5 hours w/ #Italy lab
Appending tar files into a big one
No direct internet available on site of customer. Secret proxy to go outside
#AIX expert arrives, but needs #VIO license. #HMC launched
#IP topology decides. 20 IPs on customer site
#tengo #tengo :)
Arrived in #Guangzhou. Raining. Humid.
Played 2 hr #tennis w/ #pro. 3:6. Tired & hard to catch the speed & rhytm. Efficient practice. #consistant hit.
Leaving for #cloud project @ #Guangzhou. Busy work tomorrow after 3 days holiday in #China.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

We need #cloudful, not #cloudless. :)
We need #cloudful, not #cloudless. :)

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

#Naun
#Naun
Dinner @ #Uygher #Islamic restaurant. Crowded & noisy
Dinner @ #Uygher #Islamic restaurant. Crowded & noisy
Yummy
Yummy

Monday, September 20, 2010

Don't like review, like positive support. Dislike that "fully support" is said. Expect real support, like lock technician knows IP, network, #Linux during project. Don't tell me strategy or solution review
Cancelled one confernce because I'd receive no support, but just review.
Tired. On way back home. Successful review w/ customer VPs, CTO, PMs this morning on #Cloud & got very positive feedback.
#Fighting @ #battlefield

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Calling for more resource could have more support and create more trouble simultaneously. Who debates?
#Provisioning #VM to customer to load & launch their own #business #applications this morning.
@ customer site to deliver #ISDM #Cloud
Love to work @ SJZ as #the internet speed is very fast.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Moving to #cloud project
On train to #Shijiazhuang for closing #Cloud project.
We could hand the #Cloud environment to customer and help them launch their own business application
All defect / issue have been fixed Saturday morning. The remaining work is to provision a sample store from #WebSphere and implement #Monitoring agent on all VMs + physical boxes
Too many emails
Played tennis with my daughter for 2 hours @ lunch time. Tried to relax from recent stressed work.
#Windows 2003 provisioned @ ISDM successfully this morning. #Defect found & #PMR raised. Thanks to Bill & Lily for great effort to workaround by using original #TivSAM721's script

Friday, September 17, 2010

Developers @ battlefield stay @ customer site without coming home this weekend. Catching up Sunday morning train to SJZ to join battlefield
Escalating provisioning malfunction to Lab.
Working on a great #Cloud solution
Heard that developer @ customer site fixed #2003 #Windows #provisioning issue. The image has been launched successfully. Oohoo
Board reviewed passed. oohoo

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Update @ gz: given only 2 IPs. Far to enough. Giga NIC missing @ RHEL #linux. Downloading, then patching tmr. Testcase given in production #IDC. Scared to proceed wiping disks.
#PMR raised by us
Update @ sjz: bug found - identical #hostname given by #dns. Latter provisioned img replacing the previous one.
3 hr flying home from #Guangzhou. Long day from 6am till 11pm. Need a break.
Leaving great view @ #Shangrila for #cloud work
Leaving great view @ #Shangrila for #cloud work
Remote control the blade from one office. Booting from local CD to install a remote blade. Pretty fast. Asking for more IPs
Working @ customer's secured data center

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

We're given 2 vLANs. One for mgmt and another resource pool.
Finally we got 4 boxes @ customer datacenter located nearby airport. We're applying the permit to enter and moving there for another 2 hours.
Pre- req: 4 boxes, 4c8g for 2, & 4c4g for another 2. 250g hdd for each, 16 IPs for #cloud, 4 IPs for work to connect to #cloud & #internet
Arrived @ customer site 9.15am. We were given only 2 Intel boxes plus an AIX (optional). Asking customer get more as pre- requisite.
Go get the changed boarding pass due to flight delayed
Racing against technologies, customer requirement, and incoming emails...
Working alone @ corner of #airport while waiting for boarding to a delayed flight to #Guangzhou for #Cloud project
Airport is quiet for working. #3G, VPN, #Ubuntu #Linux, email... focus on #Cloud
Listening to #Sarah #McLachlan's - In the arms of an #Angel. #calm #relax

Monday, September 13, 2010

My wife also went for business trip. #Challenge @ home - to handle kids... w/o parents
Waiting for boarding @ airport. Flight delayed for 2 hours. Having time to process my emails, proposal, reviews...
Had a high level conversation w/ customer executuve vice president @ CT head quarter. Got a challenge @ #hypervisor integration & manageability. Discussed strategy, partnership & channel
Discussing w/ #Comm sector heads @ #Hilton

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Lock #resource to #focus on project. Too much distraction
Creating #linux + #windows template now @ resource pool
#ITM works and loads all boxes into #monitoring control
My #Sony #Vaio p115 runs out of battery. Off now.
Installing #vim on #ubuntu on train via 3g. Cool
Planning my #TripIt
Noise shield
Watching #sunset through window of #bullet train
Listening #Sarah #McIacklan #Angel in the arms on train to SJZ for #Cloud project. #Soft #calm
Will figure out #Windows provisioning capacity on #KVM @ our #Cloud env
#Pricing came out already. Under expectation
Will have to make the resource plan. That's a #challenge to coordinate within orgs
Setup the #Objective for this week
Train to #SJZ to continue the #PoC of #Cloud

Friday, September 10, 2010

@ hospital to see my daughter doctor for her broken foot. kid keeps me busy
Fell asleep on train. Tired. Long week
Arrived home @ midnight
Checking w/ global team about provisioning capability for Windows on KVM
On train back to Beijing. Another 2 hours
#ISDM install is supposedly completed in 4 days max if no integrity issue + hardware limit
#ISDM installation & configuration completed successfully. 5 days in total, including hardware upgrade, defect, file integrity issue...
Planning resource and schedule slightly changed. Got challenge from client team

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Discussing pricing
Leave for dinner then come back to check w/ #developer
2 machines memory upgraded, to 12G & 8G. Performance much better
#Debug level #log sent to lab
Still working on a defect. Reported to lab. Lab is involved @ #Italy
Service guys are working on framework proposal. Supposed to be out in 2~ 3 days
Discussed w/ customer on provisioning scenario, integration w/ their framework. Service guys are here as well

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

#TivSAM hostname hard- coded. #defect
#TivSAM running pretty slowly on a 2C4G PC. Asked customer provide more mem
#Defect found @ #ISDM. Failed to update hostname therefore #TivSAM doesn't start properly.
Service project lead & arch came in last night. We discussed the strategy. The framework proposal is coming out soon
Deployment succeeds @ 11.30pm Wedneday
Monitoring #ISDM install progress from hotel. 60 minutes left to deploy #TivSAM image
#dancing in front of museum @ #sjz. On way to hotel
#dancing in front of museum @ #sjz. On way to hotel
Upload, combine, untar, deploy. Check later.
Download finishes in ~40 mins. Super. md5sum output is the same as lab's. Oohoo.
#Integrity issue resolved. Thanks to Rossella & Lily
Part1 file's md5sum is #diff from the one @ #lab. #OMG
1068 kb/sec download speed @ customer site. 3.2G in 45 mins. :)
Downloading the damaged part 1
Asking #dev @ #Italy lab supplying all 7 files' md5 outputs for verification
We want to make sure all 7 original files are the ones that they claim to be
7. We're running #md5sum #checksum to verify. Running
6. We checked the size of 7/ 1/ 4 files in a row, and got confirmed w/ #Italy lab
5. Deploying 2 #vmdk into #ESX gives me "integrity error"
4. the 4 files contain 2 #vmdk files
2. 7 files combined into 1 tar file by cat >>
3. untar the single tar file into 4 files
This is how we handled the original files
Suspecting #goldmaster image has defect. Unsure yet #OMG
Search the original tar files. We'd have to re- generate the tar
Tried twice
Untar failed
Append 7 TivSAM tar files into single big file. Untar'ing

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Uploading all ISDM original tar'd files to my Linux file server now. Happy on #Linux anyway
As #TSAM image integrity complaint, we have to rebuild the tar'd files, use cat >> to append to the final image... then re- deploy @ ESX. Re- work :(
2nd #ISDM images launched - #TUAM
2/3 of 3.5G disc copy via a USB disk takes 20 mins already
It's nice to keep myself running back & forth between my desk & computer room.
Copying Redhat #Linux install media onto disk
#Milestone today: 1. deploy all #ISDM modules. 2. all modules connect & integrate each other. 3. build #windows VM
env-ovf.xml + rui.crt fails to update passwd in ITM #image. #bug + #defect. Using the default now. Success
#Network connection is not very stable today @ customer site.
Will re- deploy the built vm @ ESX4
Received integrity complaint of TivSAM VM file. Need to rebuild the image from tar files.
Burning DVD on my powerful & lovely #Ubuntu 10.04 laptop, 4core4g #KVM enabled
Creating a RHEL #Linux w/ KVM
Document Document Document
Launch #ITM #VM from #manage-from 1st time @ #ISDM
#mkisofs 4 XML into *.iso
Updated the progress to #customer team lead
Building the 3rd #ESX
Mission restarts
What event?
What event?
City center of #sjz
City center of #sjz
#ITM img deployed. Loading #UAM img now
After moving all images of #ISDM to #vCenter, then we'd start guest VM deployment
Have to move all #ISDM images to #vCenter
Successfully connected from #vCenter to #ESX4. Oohoo!
Becoming #VMware expert. Ha
One RPM missing which causes #vCenter #connection #failure. Searching one web. #vSphere4
#vSphere4 is buggy. Should use 3.5
Connecting from #vCenter to #ESX4 failed
All cat files are done. Loading ISDM images in #vCenter
Trying to participate a campaign of "A world without email" http://ping.fm/PotIr
Downloading #Ubuntu 10.10, via telco internet bandwidth. Speedy
Configuration of #Terminal Server goes well
Figuring out how to turn on #Windows #Terminal server
Don't forget to use ">>" to append. I used ">" once and then the 1st file got replaced :P
Also cat download_files.tar >> work_files.tar
Installing network interface driver #64bit
Test post to #facebook from #ping.fm
#vCenter requires 64bit. But its doc says 32bit is OK too.
Need #HP #ProLiant network interface driver

Monday, September 6, 2010

Redo
Forget #cat >> to append. Replace the orig tar file
#cat files now
Writing #provisioning logic while waiting for 2nd #Windows disc
Waiting for 2nd disc of #Windows
Migration not success due to missing *32.dll. Switch to install #Windows #64bit from scratch.
Asking CD key
Convincing another 2 colleagues switch their #Windows to #Ubuntu!
Upgrading Windows 64bit
Record all 3 network interfaces. Prepare to upgrade to #Windows 64bit
Repeat: We definitely need to support #KVM or even #Xen to get rid of #VMware + #Windows. #avoid
We definitely need to support #KVM or even #Xen to get rid of #VMware + #Windows. #avoid
Asked for #64bit #Windows 2003 to upgrade. Waiting for install media
#vCenter 4.1 requires 64bit. OMG
And verified the DVD. It looks fine. Can't wait to install
Download @ hotel almost finishes 2/3
Back to hotel. Waiting for the disc. Then dinner. 8.10pm
4 configuration XML created
The DVD is on hand of colleague @ #train station. On way to me :)
Launch #launchpad
Obtained another 10 IP addresses from 10.20.20.51~ 60
We're asking 16 IP for total. 6 @ mgmt (2 host+ 4 VM) and resource pool (4 host + 6 VM)
Need at least 10 IP addresses for both #manged-from + #managing-to
Writing the XML configuration file manually
Arranging the pick- up @ train station...
The DVD is on way to train station
#CDL colleague is helping burning a DVD and which will be hand- carried to on-site by catching up 5.56pm train
Got stuck @ 3pm that we don't have license of #vCenter. Figuring out where to get one... #stuck #stop now

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Because of no GUI, I have to create an XML configuration file manually then upload to target machine. #vi, love #vi
Creating an XML configuration file
The #ISDM images are *.tar, but actually they're zipped by zip. Opening by #unzip
Downloading free #VNC server then will install on #VMware
Moved #ISDM images to Linux format USB. Taking USB to computer room
Moving #ISDM images from NTFS USB disk to Linux USB disk. Need another 30 minutes
#vSphere client connected to #ESX server
Download then install #ESX4 client
My workspace
My workspace
SaaS portal
SaaS portal
Uploading #ISDM images to #VMware. Need to wait for another ~50 minutes
#Portal, service #catalog
#Portal, service #catalog
#saas portal
#saas portal
20 minutes passed
Finally, SCP from NTFS USB disk to VMware started
#Windows crap. Wasting my time
The USB disk that contains #ISDM images was formatted in NTFS
Downloading #winscp
Configured static IPs. We were given 6 boxes. Routing table, VPN, media/ USB DVD, netmask
VMware vSphere base install completes
Playing my new #Sony #vaio VPCP115 laptop. Installed #Ubuntu. But trackpoint doesn't work

Friday, September 3, 2010

One of my best friends bought an iPad @ Paris. It looks cool. But absolutely it's not what I want. I need a spiritual #Linux
Reconfigure #shoutem @ ping.fm
Testing #shoutem
Tired of #SeaMonkey crashing on #Ubuntu #Lucid #Lynx
Joining @joinDiaspora #opensource #socialnetwork
Reconfigure #ning
Re-link #ping.fm to #twitter fixes the tweet missing problem.
Re-link #ping.fm to #twitter
About 10+ #tweets made yesterday through #ping.fm to #twitter are missing. #fail #api #plugin #pingbot
#Motorola buys #Cappuccino maker http://ping.fm/MYk75
#JavaOne: Larry Ellison to chart Java future http://ping.fm/y2g8X
#Eucalyptus 2.0 is to offer improved #scalability http://ping.fm/LXjxj #opensource #cloud
#RedHat submits #cloud #APIs as potential industry standard http://ping.fm/ef33n
#Novell sees decline in revenues and profits http://ping.fm/q0BLX
The ten best developer tools included Google's Go language, JRuby, the Zend PHP framework, the JQuery and jQTouch JavaScript libraries, a framework for creating iPhone and Android applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and such software as the R statistics package and Apache Hadoop.
Best #OpenSource Software #Awards 2010 http://ping.fm/YHECf
50 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Software http://ping.fm/kuvMw

Thursday, September 2, 2010

#Ubuntu 10.04 #hangs several times. The last line @ /var/log/messages: "tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions" before "kjournald starting". Any hint please? #lucid #lynx
Connecting friend while taking train back home
Talking to Peter
On train back to Beijing
Talked w/ customer about #Cloud. Tough

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

On way to train station
On way to train station