Category Archives: Sysadmin

Oracle VM Manager on CentOS 5 i386 Install Notes

Posted on November 17, 2007 by erik

So everybody knows by now that Oracle just jumped into the virtualization fray with their new Oracle VM product. If you’ve been under a rock, go to the oracle website to check it out. Given that I’m cheap and currently … Continue reading →

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Authenticating CentOS 4 against Win2k3 R2 Active Directory

Posted on July 18, 2007 by erik

Prescript: I wrote this over a month ago and still haven’t found an authoring plugin I like so it still looks terrible. See my next post and give me ideas or just call me lazy, thanks! Based on http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/01/15/linux-ad-integration-version-4/ First, … Continue reading →

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Solaris BrandZ Zones

Posted on October 12, 2006 by erik

Sun has really been pushing innovation with Solaris recently, and since it’s now freely available and open sourced, what better time to give it a test drive? With the Solaris Express Nevada 49 release (get it from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ and click … Continue reading →

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Disk Benchmarks, Round 1

Posted on October 10, 2006 by erik

In the process of trying to figure out my VM performance problems, I’ve been doing a lot of filesystem benchmarking. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of consistency between platforms or machine classes as to benchmarking methodology, so I’ve had some … Continue reading →

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