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How to remove old NICs in CentOS 5 or 6

2023-01-022012-05-03 by Eric Schewe

I did a V2V conversion of a CentOS 6 machine from Hyper-V to vSphere. After the migration I was left with a legacy NIC that would throw up a warning when ever I tried to vMotion the CentOS 6 VM. It didn’t prevent me from moving the machine around our cluster but it was an … Read more

RHEL5.8 freezing during large NFS copy operations

2023-01-022012-03-21 by Eric Schewe

Update This issue appears to be resolved as of kernel 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 Original Article We have a few Redhat Enterprise Linux Servers (5.8 64-bit) that perform some nightly backups by copying a large amount of data via NFS to another RHEL server. Since upgrading these servers to RHEL 5.8 we’ve run into a problem where shortly … Read more