And while HP was not in a mood to talk specifics, Santeler said that Moonshot would include super-dense servers based on Intel low-power Xeon and Atom chips and Advanced Micro Devices low-power x86 processors as well as multiple suppliers of ARM-based server chips
via HP Project Moonshot hurls ARM servers into the heavens • The Register.
partprobe command is part of GNU parted software. parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT, FAT32, and reiserfs partitions. It can create, resize and move Macintosh HFS partitions, as well as detect jfs, ntfs, ufs, and xfs partitions. It is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
via Re-read The Partition Table Without Rebooting Linux System.
# partprobe /dev/sdX
cPanel is the industry leader for turning standalone servers into a fully automated point-and-click hosting platform. Tedious tasks are replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls. cPanel is designed with multiple levels of administration including admin, reseller, end user, and email-based interfaces. These multiple levels provide security, ease of use, and flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user.
via cPanel Inc..
$475/license for a single server per year.
Quagga Software Routing Suite.
Quagga is a routing software suite, providing implementations of OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP v1 and v2, RIPng and BGP-4 for Unix platforms, particularly FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and NetBSD. Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra which was developed by Kunihiro Ishiguro. The Quagga tree aims to build a more involved community around Quagga than the current centralised model of GNU Zebra.
I’m not sure I want to support this. This is what Cisco et al. do and they do this very well. As a science project maybe but why would a small or medium biz need to do OSPF or RIP? I need to think about that question for awhile.
$3/minute = $180/hour
Nice website. If I needed help I’d try them out.
When you deploy on Amazon Web Services with Elastic Load Balancers, you need to assume that random (untrusted) sources are reading client requests to your server (inbound traffic).
via AWS Elastic Load Balancer sends 2 Million Netflix API Requests to Wrong Customer.
Oops.
Computer cluster – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A computer cluster is a group of linked computers, working together closely thus in many respects forming a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each other through fast local area networks. Clusters are usually deployed to improve performance and availability over that of a single computer, while typically being much more cost-effective than single computers of comparable speed or availability.[1]
And now I will put together clusters for high availability and load balancing. This is where VMs come in handy. I think I prefer loosely coupled clusters, clusters where individual nodes are separated on different power grids.
It’s always nice to have a succinct definition handy to stay focused.
This should be useful to someone looking for HardwareVirtualMachine (HVM) compatibility by specific processors. In other words, CPU’s utilizing AMD SVM (Secure Virtual Machine), or Intel(R) Virtualization Technology (currently VT-x).
For production deployment in either virtualized or bare-metal configuration, we recommend 64-bit Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron architecture processors for best performance. Future releases of Openfiler may only support 64-bit processors therefore they are highly recommended for new Openfiler installations.
Interesting discussion about this over on Slashdot.