As a system administrator, we are often briefed on the careful use of the "kill" command. Indeed to use this command, you need to know what you're doing.. you really really need to know what you're doing. Seasoned system administrators would often talk about the first time they used this command and the racing heart rate before hitting the execute...
INFO: NetApp iSCSI to VMware Virtual Infrastructure
iSCSI, the implementation of the SCSI protocol over internet packets, is one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) forms of connectivity to an external storage. It is a form of transmitting data from host to storage, and back, over the IP network. It is cheap since putting up...
HOW-TO: Prep Work for Linux P2V (Physical to Virtual)
Virtualization is the technology trend that is "in" nowadays. It is debatable whether the money you save in hardware costs (and other variable costs) can equate or best the savings of whatever virtualization technology deployed or implemented. But that is beyond the point of...
INFO: Root Backdoor to VMware ESXi Host
Administering the virtual infrastructure has been the focus of my administrative tasks as of late. It has been a challenge learning and understanding the technology at first. It comes with the same set of rules that govern physical machines, as well as extended technology (and imagination) -- really giving meaning to the acronym elastic sky x (or ESX)....
