2 days of nightmare stress. My top customer’s server was under stress. Hitting capacity of what then was the technology made for that purpose. It was a collection of errors and bugs that needed solving initially fast, then long term.
The NFS server used to host hundreds of email was going down. That was the identified problem. The solution lay in various methods by I wound up by making a big virtual machine second hard drive. So the virtual machine now had 2 virtual box “hard” drives. But it took a long time to copy all the hundreds of gigabytes of data to it. It is done. And all is well now.
The kicker in the problem was initially I was thinking of a direct VMDK link to raw lvm partition. This needed a new 3rd hard drive in the server. I ordered a 3rd hard drive from the data center. But for some software error on their part, they thought I was ordering a reinstallation of the entire server!!! Stress! Their mistaken thought would cause them to erase everything on my perfectly good working server which had around 3 virtual machines running in it. Nightmare! From solution to worst disaster ever.
I had to hurriedly back up all the files in case they didn’t get my emails, and trouble tickets and I called them some 5 times over the telephone to get at their bureaucracy.
I wound up ordering a BRAND NEW Intel i7 2600 top of the line dedicated server with 3 x 1TB hard drives in it. I will simply have to quietly or maybe abruptly move all my virtual machines to that new dedicated server and forget about the old machine.
Upgrade happens this weekend. Unbelievable.
Then this morning at the same time a top customer has their office blocked from their smtp server.
Then this morning too another top customer had database corruption in his dedicated server.
Unbelievable.
Stress can only be relieved by actually solving the problems. And they were solved.
And oh, I forgot to tell you that this all happened while my main work station was being reinstalled for some new hot configuration so my emails and files were still not all working.
Raw paleo diet instinct. Stop eating. Glad to have had some durian though. Durian is in season now. It’s September.