This tutorial is about creating a highly available HTTP load balancer using HAProxy. The setup can be slightly complicated but you will appreciate the result - you will get a load-balanced + highly available web service in your network. Basic linux skill is assumed.
Scenario:
Imagine we have 2 physical machines. In each machine, I have 2 [...]
KVM is available in RHEL 5.4. I finally managed to find the time to play around it over the weekend. I don’t think it is as matured as xen but having said that, I do agree with the approach - Kernel virtualisation. Redhat is promoting kvm very hard and you can see it from their [...]
sometimes the vmware web access just halted for some reason. A good way to overcome that is to simply restart the vmware web server, ie
/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart
1. shutdown vmware either from browser or console.
2. checkout the vmware-vdiskmanager command. The example there tells everything.
following the samba/nfs post - http://www.azhowto.com/2009/08/07/mounting-file-systems-and-autofs-tips/ earlier, what if we do not know the ip address of the samba server?
if you just have the samba server name say ri-fnp, smbclient can find it easily for you, just do
smbclient //ri-fnp/backup -U user -W MYDOMAIN
If you want to mount it, you will need to know the ip [...]
