Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
I'm very interested in the topic of network deployments of operating systems, specifically the various Microsoft OSs, as I can already install linux via PXEboot. There's two main groups of software in this field - unattended or scripted installs, and imaged installs.
A while ago I found a tool called Unattended, ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
One of the servers I maintain is the jabber server at jabber.meta.net.nz. This is a free public service, anyone can use it, and it does get quite a wide range of use - for a long time we seemed to be very popular for south american users, possibly because of ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
A couple of our clients have HP AiO1200 iSCSI systems. These are nice enough units, especially for entry level iSCSI SANs. They're in a slightly modified HP DL320s chassis, and run Windows 2003 Storage Server, as well as some custom built HP management tools.
I've never had an easy run when ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
I've used a few hardware based iSCSI stacks for Xenserver shared storage backends, but never had spare hardware to run up software based stacks. This is rather backwards from the usual way people would test things I guess, but it's how it worked out for us.
However, we're now getting some ...
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