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Archive for March, 2010
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Mar 27th
I just set it up so when I post on my website, it posts on facebook as well. One less thing to keep track of.. phew.
For those of you seeing this on facebook, my website is at http://www.groundtactics.com
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Giving Hyper-V another look.
Mar 25th
Well, I’ve been reading and it looks like my 2nd virtualization device may get Hyper-V loaded instead of VMware.
According to various posts, an upcoming update to Windows Server 2008 R2 will introduce a feature called “Dynamic Memory”. While technically different in implementation and behavior, this feature can be used to obtain the same results as VMWare’s “Memory Overcommit” feature with few differences if properly configured. It is a key point that is often overlooked by those debating on which is better. Granted – it seems this dynamic memory feature appears to support far less operating systems, but it’s still a step in the right direction if you only intend to load the latest and greatest Microsoft operating systems.
I built a small 1u quad core xeon monster with 12 gb of ram. I’ve been feeling that ESXi was my only way to push the number VMs that I need for my testing. While not as complete as VMWares solution, if MS were to add a contender to VMWare’s “transparent page sharing”, It’d be enough for me to switch. Lets see what the future brings.
A side note: Maybe I’ll just go experiment with Hyper-V anyway. I want to check out RemoteFX when it’s out. With my technet plus subscription I’m already entitled to play with all that stuff.. I don’t have that luxury with VMWare so I’d have to pay for VMWare view if I wanted to see PCoIP in action.
Time will tell.
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RT 3.8.7 VMWare appliance with RTFM
Mar 24th
Ok, it’s back…
My VMWare Request Tracker 3.8.7 Virtual appliance is back. This one has it all and is designed to be usable even for people with no linux knowledge. Here are some features:
- RTFM installed
- Easy to modify script for checking pop3/imap accounts (Works with Exchange 2003/2007 too!)
- No bug with network interface disappearing when copying it to another VMWare instance.
- Webmin interface installed (No linux knowledge needed)
- All features working (Graphing/Shredder to name a couple)
- And some other stuff but I can’t remember at the moment.
Here’s the product:
And here’s the documentation (first draft – could have some errors):
Groundtactics RT3 appliance documentation
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Welcome to the site.
Mar 23rd
Welcome everybody! This is my site.. I don’t care if you like it or not, but if you do like it – sign up and say something in the forums. It’s gone through many changes over the years and has been wiped and redone many many times. This time around I plan on sticking with Wordpress so even if the look changes, I’ll never have to wipe out the users again.
Poke around and enjoy!
Can’t decide on a damn banner…
Mar 23rd
I can’t seem to decide on a banner for this site. The current one is kind of crappy.. Yes, it’s supposed to look crappy to a degree, but I think it looks crappy beyond it’s attempts.
It’s such a pain in the ass because I have a dozen other things to do but I’m stuck on this.
Maybe I’ll take a break from it and get back to re-posting my virtual appliances.
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I’m back!
Mar 21st
Well, I had a catastrophic hardware failure. It wasn’t pretty. For the tech saavy, I had a multi-hd failure on a raid 5 array after a motherboard burnout. What it boils down to is me kicking myself for figuring “Eh.. it’s a personal site, nothing business related – if I lose it, no big deal..” (That means I didn’t bother with backups…. ugh.. )
I’ve grown to like what I lost, and now have integrated this site with my production systems backup plans. I won’t be making the same mistake twice.
All user accounts are gone.. All posts gone.. Forums wiped.. The only thing still around are my torrent downloads as they were on a different server. I’ll be re-posting them in the forums within the week (or whenever I get to it).
Anyway, I’ve decided to upgrade to the latest wordpress, give the new forums a major upgrade, and update a ton of other crap here.
I’ve also changed the look a bit – hope you all like it.
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