It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update to this blog. I’ve been rather busy with both work and personal matters, and haven’t had a chance to maintain this blog properly. I hope to rectify this and post at least once a week for the next few months. I posted an update1 regarding my [...]
Posts Tagged ‘VMWare’
May 12, 2010
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ESXi, ZFS, and Home Server Data Storage – Part 1
By Wes Kroesbergen in TechnologyUPDATE: It seems I may be re-evaluating my choice of OpenSolaris vs. Nexenta. I’ve experienced a lot of issues with SMB/CIFS authentication on OpenSolaris, and have not been able to get it to work properly. I’ve also had a reply from a commenter assuring me as to the stability of Nexenta 3. I’ll post again [...]
Tags: data, ESXi, linux, Nexenta, OpenSolaris, raidz, SAN, Server, storage, Ubuntu, VMWare, ZFS
March 3, 2010
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Cloud Computing & IT
By Wes Kroesbergen in TechnologyUPDATE: I was digging through my archives, and thought I’d repost this for general interest’s sake. Let me start off by laying out what I believe are the three tiers of cloud computing. I believe that cloud computing consists of hosted services (IBM), hosted applications (VMWare, Citrix), and hosted storage/data. This contrasts with internal services [...]
January 15, 2010
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VMWare ESXi as a Media Server
By Wes Kroesbergen in Featured Articles, General, TechnologyIn the last little while, I’ve begun to work a lot more with VMware ESXi, in an attempt to understand virtualization better. Along with the benefits it brings to larger companies, I began to see some benefits that it would bring to my personal life. At home, I am constantly developing or experimenting with new [...]
Tags: ESXi, linux, Media, Server, Ubuntu, Virtualization, VMWare