Questions tagged [bare-metal]
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Bare metal or virtualize?
I am looking to upgrade servers and am trying to figure out a good plan.
We currently have 4 servers:
OpenBSD firewall/VPN server
FreeNAS backup servers (local) that receives ZFS snapshots
FreeNAS ...
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How to migrate a bare metal Linux installation to a virtual machine
I'd like to migrate a RHEL5 installation from a bare-metal installation to a virtual machine. I'm not very experienced when it comes to Linux backup and restore procedures, so I'm looking for advice ...
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How does Bare metal provisioning to clients work with PXE
I'm trying to better understand how one would initiate the process of re imaging a number of client computer systems on a network. Eg, to reverse systems back to a base image each week. Each image ...
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Optimising bare-metal hypervisor installation
what is the best way to install a bare metal hypervisor (i.e. to host multiple VM's)? I spoke to a friend and he is using a HP server to host all his VMs with VMware ESXi, but he installed the VMWARE ...
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Esxi hypervisor install: uefi or bios?
I recently bought Dell PowerEdge T430 server and I want to install on it ESXi 6.0. Since VMware now supports UEFI (from version 5.0) I want to ask how to install hypervisor?
BIOS
UEFI
After install, ...
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Kubertnetes with metallb - Loadbalancer service in pending state
I have followed the steps of installation from metallb website.
And the metallb containers are also running.
After that I deployed an nginx service for testing with service as LoadBalancer.
The ...
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HP ProLiant DL360 G5 gets stuck at blank white screen (no beeps, no errors)
A few days ago, my server (Linux CoreOS) start running incredible slow with lots of failed services.
Try #1:
- I thought it was an OS issue so I decided to reinstall my Linux then I found out there ...
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Installing CoreOS on a single machine
How would I go about installing CoreOS on a single machine as the host OS?
I have read "Installing CoreOS to Disk" and ran the coreos-install script from Debian and CentOS live CDs, but both seem to ...
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Network share Bare Metal Restore not seeing images
My 2012 Essentials R2 server is backed up to an ISCSI drive. Yesterday both disks in my RAID0 decided to die, so I am having to do a BMR from the backup. Steps I have taken:
New RAID0 logical drive ...
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Server setup on bare metal: Services on VM vs services on bare metal(host) OS
I have a beefy linux server (32 GB RAM) with good harddrives. with one of my hosts. I run a lot of webapps which use varnish, nginx, unicorn app server, thin app server, redis, mongodb and postgresql....
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Bare Metal Restore with Backup Exec 11d on Win 2003
So, I'm looking at a bare metal restore situation with my current setup. Not sure if this is possible, but looking at a hypothetical restore path to bounce off of with some Server Fault gurus ;).
As ...
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Automated Remote Bare Metal Recovery
I have a server (Windows 2008 R2) with a bare metal recovery point made using Windows Server Backup tools. Everything I've read about bare metal recovery points to needing to be physically at the ...
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Bare metal: Server doesn't come up. Sometimes
I have a HP ProLiant DL160 G5 and a real strange problem:
If the server is unplugged for several minutes, it comes up without any problems.
If I gracefully shut it down, pressing the power button ...
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How to provision a baremetal kubernetes cluster using a magnum with only one vlan?
There does not seem to be a guide that follows through on how to deploy a baremetal Kubernetes cluster using magnum. I got to the point of having the baremetal servers turn on and initiate the pxe ...
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Expose Kubernetes cluster behind a pfSense
I installed a Kubernetes cluster on a Bare-metal sever.
This server contains a Proxmox hypervisor, I have the following virtual machines
a pfSense (192.168.9.254)
two masters for the Kubernetes ...
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SBS 2008 Bare Bone Restore
Trying to do a Mock restore for SBS on a test machine.
The machine does not see the Western Digital Essentials hard drive as a valid restore. The Drive is seen if I try to Install the OS, so I know ...
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How can I create a simple Exchange 2010 backup solution?
I'm sure this question's been asked a dozen times in one form or another, however after much searching, there doesn't appear to be an obvious simple recovery solution for a single Exchange box.
We're ...
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Does Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Bare Metal support antivirus?
I am a developer, not a sysadmin, so I am seeking out some opinions and answers about virtualization. In order to solve some project deadline issues, the development team installed and setup a Windows ...
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Disk space issues
My server have disk space however its showing disk space is full.
This is bare-metal server and deleted many files but still showing disk is full
Please check below outputes:
[root@host1 tmp]# df -...
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Don't log stack-traces from kubelet
I've got something wrong with my Kubernetes node, but it's hard to debug because I get pages and pages of stack trace like
Nov 13 10:55:51 corona kubelet[29656]: /workspace/anago-v1.19.4-rc.0....
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Hard drive error message in Virtual Root Server
After noticing a high load on our virtual root server (2 x 1 TB RAID 1 Subset) I have found these messages in /var/log/messages (CentOS):
kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action ...
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Windows / Linux backup software with Bare Metal Recovery
We are in the discovery process of looking for backup software that meets the following goals.
Different Backup types (Full, Incremental, etc.)
Bare Metal Recovery to Windows and Linux
Automated ...
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Setup/Guidance/Troubleshooting DPM 2010 Bare Metal Backups
Having difficulties setting up Bare Metal recovery in DPM 2010.
Does anyone know of a good guide/walkthrough to talk me through a basic setup? I have tried most of the DPM knowledge base without ...
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Limit number of CPU cores in bare metal server
I was trying to benchmark application performance across bare metal and hypervisors. I have a 24-core server on which hyper-v is running. On the same machine, I have centos7 installed. I can set the ...
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VMWare Workstation and Windows 10: can't connect to a server hosted on VM
I have a private 2 nodes Kubernetes cluster configured on VMWare Workstation 15. I'm using MetalLB and Calico.
Ingress service and ingress look like:
xxx@c1-cp1:~/Desktop$ kubectl get svc -n ingress-...
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Accessing Kubernetes services in the cluster from outside of the local network - Bare Metal
I'm running a simple bare-metal multi-master "high availability" enviroment with 2 masters and 2 workers, as well as another VM with HAProxy serving as external Load Balancer.
My question is:...
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Does Google allow GCP Kubernetes application deployment to Google Bare Metal directly?
From the google marketplace - https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace can I deploy an application directly to Google Bare Metal ? - https://cloud.google.com/bare-metal.
Especially the ...
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Is it possible to run ansible on a bare metal?
Is it possible to run Ansible on a bare metal to install OS on multiple machines along with SW installation and CODE deployment?
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Windows server on bare metal vs hyper-v regarding DPM 2010
Planning how to set up a newly purchased server. It is to be placed in my DMZ, hosting webapps only requiring a simple software stack of Java, Tomcat servlet container, and PostgreSQL database on top ...
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nginx-ingress controller crashes every few days
I have single-machine (untainted) Kubernetes cluster on bare metal CentOs.
I'm using nginx-ingress-controller as the gateway. The image I use is from https://quay.io/repository/kubernetes-ingress-...
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Is it a best practice to use Docker containers on a bare-metal Windows 2012r2 OS installation?
I've read various things on containers vs. virtual machines. That's not what I'm asking (I don't think). If I am using containers, do I use them on a virtual machine?
My server is 2012r2 on the ...
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Issue between Fleet-managed Elastic agent on external server and Fleet in k8s
My fleet-managed agent can't send logs (they are always dropped) to ES, but does send the metrics. The error message seen in the agent's status is a 504 Gateway Time-out.
Additionally, we see this ...
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Why NodePort service is not accessible on Kubernetes Master node?
I have Kubernetes (1.28.2) cluster installed on baremetal VMs. One master and 2 worker nodes. I am using Calico pod network.
I have deployed a Traefik ingress with NodePort accessibility. Also ...
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Alpine: Boot via iPXE and execute a script: can't stat "Filesystem": No such file or directory
I want to execute Alpine Linux and execute a script.
alpine.ipxe
#!ipxe
# Unfortunately "https" will fail with current iPXE with "operation not permitted"
# https://ipxe.org/err/...
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Why does bgp OPEN message get Connect Socket: Connection reset by peer when node is on a different subnet/gateway
My network setup:
Kubernetes network setup
With this setup, only nodes on same subnet can establish bgp connection. Other nodes (that do a full 3 way tcp handshake), responds to hte OPEN message with [...
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how to configure ingress controller in kubernetes cluster over bare metal system?
Is there any way to assign static IP to Kubernetes cluster, in which any user can able to access its application over static IP only.
for an example, I have set up a cluster over 192.168.0.131 (master)...
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Running separate RAID arrays simultaneously... is it possible?
I've just obtained my first real life server. A dell PowerEdge 2970 with 8 HDDs.
I did some rudimentary studying on the Internet about RAID configurations and hopped right in.
Having read that it was ...
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Kubernetes Ingress with static IPv4 address
I have set Kubernetes up with kubeadm, bare-metal on Ubuntu Linux instances. These are instances on GCE, but I am not using the specific GKE native cluster service. Each instance (as a node) has a ...
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Installed OS to external drive using a VM, now won't boot on bare metal
I have a USB hard drive. (The USB connector for that drive is actually super flaky and disconnects if you breathe on it too hard, but I don't think that's the problem here.)
I have a laptop without ...
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Large Application - should I be concerned about running on VM Ware? [duplicate]
We're going to implement what I consider to be a fairly large and processor intense application in a few months and our Windows team is recommending that we deploy it on VM Ware. The application will ...
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Deploy packer images on bare metal server?
How can I match my dev and production bare metal box?
The hosting provider does not allow or have a process to install custom images and only provides a selection from all the latest popular ...
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Bare Metal Restoration of Child Domain (Active Directory Issue)
As i have a parent - child domain in my network as the parent is situated in other geographical location and they both are connected via VPN as i was working on a Bare metal backup & restore ...
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Virtualizor + VPS Backup (Bare Metal Restore capable) Using rSync 3
I am using virtualizor to manage 3 XEN VPS. Hardware node and each VPS run CentOS 5.x. My backup needs are as follows:
1) I need to be able to bare metal restore the entire hardware node, excluding ...
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Backing up server and multiple clients
I'm running a Amahi server. It's basically a Fedora14 x64 installation.
I'm looking for a good solution to backup my 200GB system drive on the server to an external USB/eSATA drive every night. I ...
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Bare bones backup / restore for single Win 2003 server
I have a single server, Win 2003 Server and would like to setup a system to be able to perform a bare bones restore if needed. (just plug in a cd or smth and get everything back).
Ideally the backup ...
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Bare metal kubernetes DNS not forwarding
I have a bare metal kubernetes cluster set up for my own education purposes. It's three VMs - one master, two workers, running Ubuntu 20.04. I'm having problems with pods forwarding DNS requests.
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What is real difference between old Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 @ 2.60GHz and new Intel Xeon Gold 5218 @ 2.30GHz
We are hosting file processing SAAS on Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 @ 2.60GHz and recently the Intel Xeon Gold 5218 @ 2.30GHz (Cascade Lake/Gold) is introduced in our data center. While comparing them at ...
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Kubernetes - Controller-manager and Scheduler is not listening on ports 10251-10252
I have installed kubernetes using kubeadm tool and has version 1.20.0
but it seems that the controller-manager and scheduler is not listening on 10251 and 10252 ports.
due to this prometheus is unable ...
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Kubernetes Few worker nodes vs many worker nodes
We use RKE for setting up the cluster with 4 master node (VM, 8 core CPUcurrentlysourcesstagingahorriblea workers and 16G ram) and 5 worker node(bare-metal, HPE G10, 88 core CPU, 256G ram)
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Virtual Loadbalancer based on Virtual IP
I need to setup K8S in HA Mode on hosted Baremetal. If have a vSwitch Network where I can easily assign internal IPs. Is there a Virtual Linuxbased loadbalancer (Active/Passiv) software that allows me ...
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