I was struggling with an install of ESXi on a cisco 6509 switch where the management and VM LAN connectivity worked just fine but for some reason the SAN NFS VLAN just did not want to communicate with the Nexenta on that VLAN. After some searching and trial and error I was able to utilise this post …

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I am busy working on a contract with a company that is implementing a 10G network for their ESX cluster. We have been using extreme X650 10G copper switches for the core. Migrating the current servers to the 10G environment was relatively easy and went with minimal issues. Over the last 2 weeks I have been trying to …

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Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD To create this cluster you will need 2 ubuntu node servers installed as follows. I am creating this cluster inside of vMware so I created 2 VM's with: 1GB RAM 1 10GB hdd for the root (/) partition. 1 20GB hdd for the database store. I downloaded the ubuntu 9.10 …

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Over the weekend I was able to have my mobile contract changed and part of the deal is that I get an HTC Hero. This has made me quite happy as I have been forced to run windows mobile on my old phone for far to long and it is refreshing that I have an android phone. The first thing I noticed was that the box was really …

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I have been running the release version of VMware Server 2 and I must say I am impressed. the only problems I had were with existing VM's and upgrading the tools on them. And also VM's that have open-vm-tools installed. After updating the tools the systems all have been functioning just fine over the last few weeks and …

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Ever since vmware made ESXi a free download I have wanted to install and run it at home so I can P to V my systems at home. And save money on electricity. And before you ask I have looked at the Xen and Virtualbox and Kvm solutions but have found them not quite ready fro my prime time. I had been running vmware server …

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Well I knew it would happen and it eventually did. I was going to work this morning and I had to swerve for a black porsche and my bike dropped. I landed on my right hand side and slid down the road. I have a few bruises and bumps and will be seeing the doctor tomorrow morning. The bike is in the shop at the moment I …

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I have been scarce lately as I have been working down in Plymouth on a short contract for a Art school. it was fun and I did more that I anticipated doing which is good. Hopefully I will be able to get back to my Opensource stuff soon.

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You all know I have been a very pessimistic South African for a very long time and well I had my reasons for being like that. This morning I received a e-mail from someone I know who sent me a link to this site. http://www.sagoodnews.co.za And also 2 links to some stories on the site …

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