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How to build your own traffic shaping device with CentOS and tc (traffic control)

Let's say that you're hosting someone's equipment and they start to abuse their connection speed. Let's say that you're limited… Read More

6 years ago

Configure DUO MFA on CentOS 7.x Linux with pam_duo

I'm a big fan of MFA, specifically Duo Security's product (I did a corporate blog post here). I've been using… Read More

6 years ago

Fedora upgrade from 27 to 28 (FC27 to FC28) fails on nss-pem

When attempting to upgrade from Fedora Core 27 to Fedora Core 28, it may fail on the nss-pem package. I… Read More

6 years ago

Release unused space on host from guest filesystems with thin-provisioned VMDK

The Problem I run a Sophos UTM firewall appliance in my VMware vSphere environment and noticed the other day that… Read More

6 years ago

Synology DS1813+ – iSCSI MPIO Performance vs NFS

Recently I decided it was time to beef up my storage link between my demonstration vSphere environment and my storage… Read More

10 years ago

Acer Netbook as Trixbox VoIP PBX/Server

Interesting story: On the weekend, my Trixbox VoIP PBX (which runs Asterisk) failed. Unfortunately, during the restore process the hard… Read More

12 years ago

Raspberry Pi as iSCSI Target (iSCSI Server) Proof of Concept – Overview

As most of you have read, I received 2 X Raspberry Pi the other day. I've been actively hacking and… Read More

12 years ago

Simple, Quick, and Easy Disaster Recovery/Backup System for small vSphere environment

So there I was... Had a custom built vSphere cluster, 3 hosts, iSCSI target (setup with Lio-Target), everything running fine,… Read More

12 years ago

Which storage card to use for Linux MD Software RAID 5? The LSI SAS 6G 9211-8i!

Recently, I've started to have some issues with the HP MSA20 units attached to my SAN server at my office.… Read More

12 years ago

Lio-Target Python Errors CentOS 6.x

So, as most of you know, I have TONS of articles pertaining to getting Lio-Target running on Cent OS. In… Read More

12 years ago
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