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Bookmarks for February 26, 2010

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:46:07 +0000

Links for February 26, 2010:

Best Practice Guide for Microsoft SQL Server on NetApp Storage – "This best practice guide is designed to give storage administrators and database administrators the keys to successfully deploying Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 and 2008 on NetApp® storage. This technical report will discuss Microsoft and NetApp high-availability solutions, best practices for data management, backup and recovery, and best practices for storage layout."

Bookmarks for February 25, 2010

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:47:47 +0000

Links for February 25, 2010:

nlnetlabs.nl :: DNSSEC HOWTO :: – "This HOWTO is intended for those people who want to deploy DNSSEC and are seeking a document that lives between a typical high level description of the topic (see the excellent Surfnet White Paper on DNSSEC for that (http://www.surfnet.nl/Documents/DNSSSEC-web.pdf ), the typical out of the box recipe, and an in depth description of the technology."

Bookmarks for February 22, 2010 through February 23, 2010

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:46:56 +0000

Links for February 22, 2010 through February 23, 2010:

Who created that VM ? « Virtu-Al – "With a quick script and resolving the user account in AD, I was able to add a custom field to each VM letting me know who created the VM and when it was created, all displayed in the annotations of each VM."
NetApp Technology Network: PS Tech Note 050 – nfsstat command.pdf – "Brief explanation of using the nfsstat command to find the most active NFS clients, examples and when and why to use it."

Bookmarks for February 18, 2010 through February 20, 2010

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:22:38 +0000

Links for February 18, 2010 through February 20, 2010:

Safely Remove / Delete Old Linux Kernel from a Linux Server – Notes on identifying and removing old Linux kernel versions from CentOS and Ubuntu.
Cheat Sheet : All Cheat Sheets in one page – "All cheat sheets, round-ups, quick reference cards, quick reference guides and quick reference sheets in one page."
Installation/LocalNet – Community Ubuntu Documentation – Network installation documentation for Ubuntu, including unattended installation options, similar to Red Hat's Kickstart.
Django Advent – "With each new release, Django offers new features and techniques to simplify web development. Django Advent brings you articles about these new features and the techniques they make possible, often written by the feature's author."
Troubleshooting IPv6 on Windows 7 (and Why It’s Worth the Bother) | IT Expert Voice – "Windows 7 supports [IPv6] better than any other Windows version. But that doesn’t mean you should rely on the default IPv6 configuration."

Bookmarks for February 11, 2010 through February 13, 2010

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:23:20 +0000

Links for February 11, 2010 through February 13, 2010:

Why Git is Better Than X – Comparison of Git to Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion and Perforce.
http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports/tr-3802.html – "Ethernet storage has existed for many years in the form of Network Attached Storage (NAS). Under this guise, there has always been the attitude that the Internet Protocol (IP) and Ethernet networking for storage systems is simple and can be left to the networking team. In the past, for smaller or less critical environments, this was acceptable. Today, Ethernet based storage systems are faster and much more powerful, servicing the needs of large critical applications and databases over 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) network infrastructures. For Ethernet based storage systems serving mission critical environments, it is essential that consideration be given to the network design based on the demands of the applications and the nature of the storage protocols serving them. This fundamental concept is critical to ensure performance, scalability, latency and redundancy requirements are met."
Recipes/Debian Apache2Recipe – puppet – "This recipe helps you manage sites and modules for apache2 in a default Debian (Etch) installation." (Also relevant to Ubuntu.)
Installing VMware RCLI within 64-Bit Linux – AstroArch – Notes on how to install the 32-bit only VMware Remote Command Line Interface on 64-bit linux machines.

Bookmarks for February 8, 2010 through February 9, 2010

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:21:28 +0000

Links for February 8, 2010 through February 9, 2010:

Product Overview: Nasuni – The gateway to cloud storage – "We run a NAS-like software appliance on a server in your office, and link it through the Internet to the third-party cloud—or clouds—of your choice. Your files are then all kept safely off site and out of trouble, while secondary copies of your working set are cached back for fast-access local use. Our software tracks changes to the local copies and sends them to the cloud, so your complete set is always up to date."
VMware Communities: vmwarevSphereSecurityHardeningReportCheck.pl – "The script allows you to run the current existing guides as of (01/29/2010) against vCenter 4.0 hosting ESX(i) 4.0 hosts/virtual machines OR run it against an individual ESX(i) 4.0 host. The script allows you to run a subset of the checks and against different type of validation (ENTERPRISE,DMZ or SSLF). Upon completion, a report is generated including a grade for your environment."
Encrypted ZFS Backups to the Cloud: Wiki: Home — Project Kenai – "The goal of this project is to simplify the process of taking this ZFS data stream, compressing and encrypting it, and then storing the result in a Cloud Storage service such as the Sun Cloud Storage Service and Amazon S3. This project does support splitting up of a single ZFS stream into multiple files (if needed to work around a given Cloud providers maximum file limits)." (Website apparently slated to move to java.net.)
ZFS snapshots to and from S3 – OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2: Information and News – Simple process for sending ZFS snapshots to S3.

Bookmarks for February 6, 2010

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:00:01 +0000

Links for February 6, 2010:

NetApp Technology Network: Raid group size recommendation – Discussion of aggregate and RAID group sizing in NetApp filers running ONTAP 7.2 and 7.3.

Bookmarks for February 4, 2010

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:25:36 +0000

Links for February 4, 2010:

NetApp and VMware vSphere – Storage Best Practices by Vaughn Stewart, Michael Slisinger, Larry Touchette, Peter Learmonth, Trey Layton in Computers & Internet – "Ensure your VMware vSphere on NetApp deployment delivers the highest performance, functionality, and storage efficiencies. This book will cover all basis including ESX/ESXi storage connectivity with FC, iSCSI, FCoE, and NFS; and array configurations including data deduplication and optimal datastore/Virtual Machines layouts. The Second edition highlights new vStorage capabilities and integrations available to VI admins with the NetApp vCenter plug-ins."

Bookmarks for February 1, 2010

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:03:39 +0000

Links for February 1, 2010:

Ocarina Networks – De-duplication & Compression Deep Dive on Vimeo – "De-duplication & Compression Deep Dive White Board Session with Ocarina Networks CTO, Goutham Rao"
Java in Virtual Machines on VMware ESX: Best Practices – "This paper discusses best practices for running Java-based software in VMware ESX virtual machines. These guidelines will help you to get the best from your Java applications and application servers when you run them on VMware Infrastructure 3."
VMware KB: Definition of the advanced NFS options – "This articles defines the advanced NFS settings."
VMware KB: NFS mounts are restricted to eight by default in ESX 3.5.x – "This article details configuring more than eight NFS mounts on [an] ESX Server."
Software Carpentry: Index – "Software Carpentry is an intensive introduction to basic software development practices for scientists and engineers."

Bookmarks for January 31, 2010

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:01:39 +0000

Links for January 31, 2010:

Ubuntu — Ubuntu Packages Search – "This site provides you with information about all the packages available in the Ubuntu Package archive."