New year, new layout and new plans…

Happy new year! (11 days late)

I’ve decided to change the blog layout to a more friendly interface… and it looks pretty cool now.
Well, during this time without posting I’ve worked so much on some projects, the latest one was a Exchange 3 nodes clustering.

We’ve spent 3 weeks testing and configuring those nodes, and I confess.. it was a pain in the ass. Hopefully we’ll migrate to Exchange 2010 this year. But now, I don’t wanto to think about it. I’m on holidays!

I promise to keep this blog up to date as I have some plans to 2010, like post more about my work and life experiences. I’ll try to post in english and portuguese too.

That’s all,
byez0r!

Installing VMware Tools on Solaris 10 x86

Wow, it’s been a while since the last post.

I’ve been working hard virtualizing and mainting the environment at my work.
One of the things I’m in love right now is Solaris 10. It’s a different world for me, as I’m a Windows user since Windows 3.11. But in 3 days I’ve learned a lot of things, one of these things is how to install VMWare Tools on it.
So… here we go.

First, right click on your Guest Machine, go to Guest and then Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. At this time, the VMware Tool image will be mounted on Solaris.
Now in a Terminal on Solaris type:

#
# bash
bash-3.00# cp /cdrom/vmwaretools/ /export/home
bash-3.00# gunzip /export/home/vmware-solaris-tools.tar.gz
bash-3.00# tar -xvf /export/home/vmware-solaris-tools.tar
bash-3.00# cd /export/home/vmware-tools-distrib
bash-3.00# ./vmware-install.pl

Now customize the installation as you wish and reboot the system.

But, wait wait… As you can see you don’t have a network interface configured on your system.

Type:

sys-unconfig

Now, re-configure your system again and finally your network interface.

Hope it helps you!
See ya!

Another day, another war…

It’s so f***ing hard to work with who simply doesn’t care about anything.

Here in HDI we’re called Infra (SysAdmins), and we’re divided in two groups, the DBAs and the Systems/Network Administrators.

In DBA group we have two girls aged between 21-23 who doesn’t know anything about compromise, respect and dedication to work.
It’s a loooong story, but they think like a children, they send e-mails the whole day, have stupid conversations on the phone with their friends and when the house is about to burn down, they don’t know what to do to restore the systems back.

It’s just a grizzle of a stressed SysAdmin.

I have nothing against women working in IT, I’ve read an article some weeks ago about women joining IT teams on big companies and the numbers of these crazy girls are growing up, I think that’s good news, mostly because they enchant the environment… But please, if you’re a girl and thinking about work in IT team, please be ready. It’s not a Disney World.

1st post – stuck on traffic

Ok, this is my first topic. I’ve decided to create this blog while stuck on traffic(still on it… @?!@#) through my cell phone. Well, I’ll try to post my personal and professional experiences whenever possible.
I think that’s all…

byez0r