by Dean | Jun 4, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
At first I thought this was going to be a fairly easy and straight forward setup. I figured it would be install FreeNAS or Ubuntu and bam we will be away. What has ended up happening was a configuration of DRBD, Heatbeat and other HA utilities to get it up and running...
by Dean | Apr 16, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation, Webtech
Now that I have my load balances etc all installed and running (aka proxy), and the box for general websites is running smoothly, it is time to setup a LAMP server that I can customize for the My Book It software. What I want to be able to do is from a website...
by Dean | Apr 12, 2014 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Misc, Virtualisation
Here are some of my notes in relation to assessing a site when it comes to VMWare and visualization in general. CPU The following items need to be taken into consideration in relation to CPU when it comes to visualization. CPU Speed (in MHz) Usage (Processor(_Total\%...
by Dean | Mar 29, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, Security, Tutorial, Virtualisation
Now that I have my remote access machine up and running it is time to install the VPN modules into it to get remote access to my network. In my previous post I mentioned that I was going to use IPSEC/L2TP VPN. After some thought and investigation I decided to change...
by Dean | Mar 22, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
So my web hosting is coming up for renewal shortly and I have been considering what options I have in terms of renewing it given the creation of My Book It. I need something fairly flexible and considered the option to migrate to a VPS type solution. But before I move...
by Dean | Nov 8, 2013 | General IT, IT, Virtualisation
After recently cloning a Hyper V machine after another RAID issue I was presented with an issue where none of the guest would start after a reboot. This was strange as before the clone the machines started and ran fine. When attempting to start one of the guests I was...
