Category: systems

  • Proxmox – TShoot LVM-thin

    After performing complex LVM operations, you need specific commands to verify success and troubleshoot any potential problems. Here are the most valuable verification and troubleshooting commands for the LVM-Thin and Directory setup you just created: Verification & Status Commands These are the first commands you should run to confirm your work and check disk usage.…

  • Proxmox – LVM-thin setup

    To ensure you start from a formatted disk, the first step is to wipe any existing partition tables and data headers. Then, you’ll proceed with the LVM steps. Assuming your new 3TB disk is identified as /dev/sdb (you must verify this with lsblk before proceeding), here is the complete, start-to-finish list of commands. Complete Storage…

  • RAC0225: Sending the test mail failed.

    RAC0225: Sending the test mail failed.

    I have been trying to configure iDrac alerts for a while now. But I seem to be getting the same error over and over again, ‘RAC0225: Sending the test mail failed’. It turns out that when iDrac sends an email the FROM account is the following, as entered in the fields in iDRAC Settings>Network>Common Settings…