Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
Citrix XenServer is great. No really. As long as you don't want to do uncommon things like, say, replacing a network card which is your management interface, or deleting snapshots and expecting to get the freed space back instantly, XenServer is solid and very easy to setup and use. With ...
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Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
Hello, and a Happy New Year everyone! I have been quiet here for many months due to an incredible work load. Fortunately the festive season gave me some time to breath, and to look into things which I have been wanting to look into for months, namely Amazon's EC2 cloud, ...
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
I'm not going to explain in depth how virtualisation can reduce downtimes in general, or what you need to achieve that. But from todays practical experience, I'd like to give one example.
Let's say you are running FreeBSD on a server, and you need to do a major upgrade (that is ...
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