I recently did some work on an HA Cisco ASA for VPN using the AnyConnect clients. It is a cross platform system that works very well. This system was unique in that it used the very excellent two factor solution from SecureAuth. Using client installed certificates with the AnyConnect client provides a two factor solution ...Read More
I couldn’t find a step-by-step how to, so here goes: My new Dell R710 has 4 on-board Broadcom NICs, and an add-on Intel Quad Port NIC. After installing ESXi 4 Update 1 (customized ISO for Dell) I saw the Broadcoms, but not Intels. The solution is a driver CD that is available from VMWare, but ...Read More
Performing a backup on a MS Windows operating system have been greatly improved with the introduction of the Volume Shadow Service. On the server side, Windows 2003 introduced this new functionality for Microsoft. There are several layers of features and services, but in summary, the VSS service allows for consistent, point-in-time access to files on ...Read More
I’m going to skip the explanations of these things, and jump right to the how to set them up in Proxmox. I am working with Proxmox 1.4, and a Cisco 4506 switch. The Cisco has several vLANs configured, and the Proxmox host has dual Intel NICs on eth0 and eth1. On the Cisco switch, we ...Read More
When it comes to virtualization systems, Proxmox is my hypervisor distribution of choice. While it has an excellent web interface, it only provides real-time resource usage information. While useful, being able to look at resource usage over time can be an added benefit when troubleshooting a system problem. Thankfully, since Proxmox is Linux, there are ...Read More
Linux w/ KVM. I’ve been waiting a long time (almost 3 years) for it to mature both in technical capability and in corporate viability. I started using it in limited production use about 2 years ago, and in the past 12 months have migrated all physical and virtual systems over to it. In one location ...Read More
For those of you that haven’t yet implemented virtualization, I’d recommend waiting a few more weeks to see RedHat’s implementation. Reported by LeMagIT, a Red Hat executive confirmed that September 1st will be the launch date for General Availability of Red Hat’s virtualization portfolio. As I blogged about last week, there is already a private ...Read More
Red Hat goes to Beta with it’s KVM based Virtualization platform. KVM is a module for Linux that turns the Linux kernel into a Hypervisor. It is already used in many deployments around the world. I am currently a heavy implementer of it, utilizing the Proxmox Linux distribution, which is a complete Linux installation customized ...Read More
I always find industry aquisitions interesting, especially when you consider how they can impact the products we use on a regular basis. Last week it was annonced that Intel would be aquiring Wind River for nearly $900 million. In case you didn’t know Wind River is an embedded application/ OS provider for a long list ...Read More
I previously blogged about using the iSCSI Enterprise Target on Ubuntu. However, the IET isn’t the only iSCSI Target service available on Linux. There are several others, including the SCSI Target Framework, which is now my iSCSI target of choice. The tgt is a ‘framework’. It was designed to work with multiple SCSI type devices ...Read More