Ever since someone first tried to represent the idea of packet switched network that was resilient to failure they probably used a picture of a cloud. Cisco’s official iconography for such a network is a cloud. It has been taken…
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I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me
IPv6 and Virtualisation Revisited
I recently discovered Vagrant and after some experimentation and reading I set about replacing all my ESXi and HyperV hosts with Linux based hypervisors. After installation of the RPM package creating a VM was as simple as issuing; vagrant box…
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NAMOS Virtualised
As I was updating to the latest WordPress (2.8.6) I noticed that the About page still showed my old setup. I moved to a shiny ‘new build’ flat a year or so ago and unfortunately my old Compaq 9000 Rack…
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Posted in NAMOS, Virtualization
Utilising Read Only Domain Controllers to Leverage Hosted Active Directory
One of the common issues that appears when integrating a hybrid vision of Hosted Exchange with someones existing infrastructure (so not really Hosted Exchange at all!) is synchronising credentials between the Exchange Server and the local machines or for the…
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HyperV Stuff
Just as I’ve finished consolidating all my Physical machines to HyperV guests Microsoft have announced Windows HyperV Server which is a free download. With the release of the HyperV Linux Componants I’m going to start moving some workloads away from…
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Benefits of Virtualisation For Training
Working in a Data Center brings with it various challenges that you wouldn’t normally find in most other jobs; we come across demanding solutions, ingenious ‘hacks‘, impressive software and outright weird errors. Once we’ve crossed a particular hurdle then we…
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Leveraging Virtualisation To Fight Spam
A few weeks ago I ‘inherited’ a frontend anti-spam solution that was getting crushed under the weight of the Christmas run-up. Emails were taking up to a week to arrive at the back-end system and a lot of spam was…
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VMWare Virtual Center Errors
Yesterday I had a nasty case of Y-splitter failure (in future I’m just going to upgrade the PSU rather than go though this again) which caused all four of the 320Gb disks of a RAID5 array to suddenly disappear. Windows…
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