December 2009

Free Centralized ESXi Management console for multiple ESXi servers

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 06:44

I have recently been looking for a new way to manage my ESXi servers in the datacenter as I was starting to get annoyed on having a ton of VI Clients open on my management box.  So after some Googling I found this awesome little management utility that lets you basically do everything you need to do when managing your ESXi servers.   The utility is called VM Explorer, Trilead is the application manufacture that is building and supporting the product.  They have 2 versions of the software -- a free version and a commerical version.   There are some limitations of the free version, but for sm

VirtualBox 3.1 features Teleportation aka live migration

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 04:56

I just finished reading multiple press releases regarding Sun's Virtualbox 3.1 teleportation feature.  This is a functionality you generally see in a more enterprise setting, but it's nice to see that this functionality is here finally with Virtualbox.   Here is a quick walkthrough on using the Teleportation function, since it has to be leveraged from the command line as there isn't a functional GUI management yet for multiple virtualbox servers.

Projects

I have been trying to find some things to take up some of my free time for the winter this year, and I have one big project.  This project has been something that I've been wanting to do for some time, and I'm finally putting the effort and work into it to make it happen.   I will be building a customized operating system (ok, more along the lines of a respin of Fedora).   I'm going to focus the project on a managed service project as much as possible to create an experience much like the RedHat Network for managing your linux servers / desktops.  More detail w

11 Load Balancing alternatives to high priced load balancing appliances

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 18:06

Linux Virtual Server
The Linux Virtual Server Project is a project to cluster many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance virtual server. The LVS load balancer handles connections from clients and passes them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP, DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client accessing the virtual service.
Homepage: http://www.LinuxVirtualServer.org/

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Killer article on desktop virtualization

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 20:12

This is by far one of the best objective articles comparing the leading Desktop virtualization products and has some good information on Virtualbox and VMware Workstation 7.  Definitely worth the read

http://infoworld.com/print/103500

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Development Release: Elive 1.9.52 (Unstable)

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Sat, 12/19/2009 - 12:33

Development Release: Elive 1.9.52 (Unstable) - Samuel Baggen has announced the availability of a new development release of Elive, version 1.9.52, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest build of the Enlightenment 17 desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.9.52." Changes since Elive 1.9.51: "Enlightenment 17 modules -....

BeyondCompare 3 on Fedora 12

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 17:57

As I tend to work with a great deal of data comparisons between "corrupt" and restored data, its very helpful to have a great file comparison utility.   Beyond Compare is that utility that you need for this type of work.  I use it from compare folder structures, to database integrity, or to explain to that stubborn person that they are missing data and the missing data isn't in their back file.

The install is a straight forward rpm install.  Make sure you are su'd in your terminal

Fedora Commerical Support - Desktop and Server

Submitted by admin on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 18:56

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