about 4 weeks 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 the More >
about 1 month 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 no longer More >
about 3 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 need to schedule is More >
about 7 months 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 been phished and More >
about 9 months ago - No comments
Tomorrow, May 21st, 2009, normal people around the world will get a chance to download VMware’s newest edition of their infrastructure ’cloud operating system’ products named vSphere.
I am very excited to see what this all entails. I have read the documents, reviewed the upgrade steps and procedures, have read many a blog entry from those special enough More >
about 10 months ago - 5 comments
Virtualization, one of the buzzwords flying around the Internet today, is a method of running separate servers (guests) with separate operating systems on shared physical hardware (the host). I wrote a quick summary back in February, 2009 that should help give some context.
Here at ipHouse, we have chosen to use VMware for our virtualization products. More >
about 1 year ago - No comments
This past couple of days, I worked with our web guy as I redeployed our web cluster from FreeBSD 6.x-STABLE to FreeBSD 7.x-STABLE.
We also moved from the rock solid and never failing (and now end of lifed) PHP4 to PHP5 along the way.
My subjective view of FreeBSD 7 vs 6 on our web cluster gives More >
