One of the ways that we are able to accomplish regularly scheduled maintenance is by utilizing Live Migration, with this we can migrate workloads from one physical machine to another without having service interruption. The way that it is done with Logical Domains is much more flexible than with most…
Solaris 11: Configure IP Over Infiniband Devices
In this article we will be going over the configuration of an infiniband interface with the IPoIB protocol on Solaris 11, specifically Solaris 11.2 (previous versions of Solaris 11 should work the same, however there have been changes in the ipadm and dladm commands). Identify Infiniband Datalinks First we need…
Adventures in ZFS: Mirrored Rpool
It always makes sense to have a mirrored rpool for your production systems, however that is not always how they are configured. This really simple procedure is also critical. Create a Mirrored Zpool Check the existing devices to identify the one currently in use. Once we know which one is…
Linux KVM: Bridging a Bond on CentOS 6.5
Today we are going to hop back into the KVM fray, and take a look at using CentOS as a hypervisor., and configuring very resilient network connections to support our guests. Of course these instructions should be valid on Red Hat Linux and Oracle Linux as well, though there is…
BlackBerry OS 10: Caldav Setup with Zimbra
I have owned my Blackberry Z10, going on a year now, and I have absolutely loved it. However one of the issues that I have fought was in integrating it with my Zimbra Installation. Email was easy, the IMAP protocol sorted that out easily enough… However calendars turned out to…