about 5 days ago - 9 comments
For years I have been a FreeBSD bigot. I love FreeBSD, the stability, performance, ease of use, and steady progression. But… Updates are kind of a chore, there is no such thing as true incremental updates, you either do patch updates against RELEASE, or you do world updates against STABLE. I am a STABLE kind More >
about 3 months ago - 25 comments
It is time to add space to our VMware cluster for storage of VMs for our customers. We started initially using Compellent SAN storage. Worked well, had a lot of space, but the performance was not what I was looking for (it is all SATA based), using F/C is far more complicated than we need More >
about 5 months ago - No comments
The splintering of Linux distributions seems to be continuing! This week, I have had requests for PHP versions 5.3 and 5.2 on both Red Hat EL 5 and CentOS 5 – though never distribution supports higher than 5.1.6 in the official repositories. PHP 5.2 has been out quite a while. Ubuntu Hardy LTS has it More >
about 6 months ago - No comments
Back in September, 2009, I had written a post with a quick overview of what a private cloud (or infrastructure) looks like and some basic costs and information, including why it is a great product (I am biased). Since then, Dell has retired the PE2900III model server and items change, this is an update for More >
about 7 months ago - 2 comments
Wowzers, quite a little thread going on in a newsgroup, but really, what’s the big deal? I think I know… Not everyone uses the Internet for viewing web pages and downloading pr0nself-help videos and television shows. The Internet itself has become much easier for the layman to use, and with that, these historical services are More >
about 9 months ago - No comments
The crowd cheers! Though that might just be me :) I am very excited for this update and I hope that it goes as smoothly as other updates have gone. I have already updated 2 non-production systems (both ESX) and I am in the process of updating some non-production ESXi servers. One of the items I More >
about 12 months ago - 1 comment
In the last 6 months, I have helped multiple customers achieve their dream of a virtual machine environment built for them exclusively, but with abilities to control their virtual machine setup, configuration, turn up, tear down, etc. These dedicated infrastructure environments are in the ipHouse data center. This isn’t ‘cloud computing’ as many people think More >
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
No mispelling, just playing ‘new internet lingo’ game. Did I win? Let’s get serious… This week, multiple customer accounts were breached. Starting approximately 3 weeks ago, a phish was sent out that some of our customers responded to, giving out their account information. We looked through our mail logs and found the users who had More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Whew! And about perfect timing for me. I was helping a friend understand that he could not operate ESXi 4.0 on his old server because of the requirement for a 64bit CPU environment. Today, VMware released this blog post touting the updates and a link to their actual hardware compatibility list, which covers vSphere 4.0 ESX and More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
Official download was available on May 21st, 2009, and I was waiting anxiously for my license keys for the new vCenter (management console) and host license keys (that which is the hypervisor)… I got them on that day, and then proceeded to spend way too much time with it. For some people, addiction is a bad thing. More >
