It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so we’ve managed to clear a few of things on the task list. I’m going to talk a little bit about them here. The cluster update was a success, but I found a side effect of having the path include a reference to itself (to allow cluster specific binaries to be available). When building adding packages or changing the default partitioning scheme for the cluster nodes, the build process would fail if the root environment was accessed from a user who had this path setting and used su. It would build, but the install process would fail because key files aren’t copied in the hierarchy. Specifically, updates.img and stage2.img would be missing.
The active directory move was accomplished by using several vmware instances to test out the various stages. There is still some work to be done with the security certificates, and then the old domain structure can be removed. The cs disk space move was accomplished without incident.
Tags: active dir, cluster