Category Archives: Sysadmin

Oracle VM Manager on CentOS 5 i386 Install Notes

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

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

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

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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