Comments for AdmiNirvana http://www.briandowney.net/blog Technical musings of an entrepreneur. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:17:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Enabling SSH on ESXi by Brian http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/10/16/enabling-ssh-on-esxi/#comment-343 Brian Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:47:23 +0000 http://www.briandowney.net/blog/?p=114#comment-343 Well it *is* the Internet Daemon Super Server. Well it *is* the Internet Daemon Super Server.

]]> Comment on Enabling SSH on ESXi by Art Vandelay http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/10/16/enabling-ssh-on-esxi/#comment-342 Art Vandelay Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:42:15 +0000 http://www.briandowney.net/blog/?p=114#comment-342 Are you kidding me? SSH is configured to run out of inetd on ESXi? Tell me, Brian, do you know of any advantages to this method. It also seems a little odd that it is inetd and not xinetd. Please renew my faith in VMware. Are you kidding me? SSH is configured to run out of inetd on ESXi? Tell me, Brian, do you know of any advantages to this method. It also seems a little odd that it is inetd and not xinetd. Please renew my faith in VMware.

]]> Comment on The Chronophage by Piper http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/09/22/the-chronophage/#comment-341 Piper Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:23:51 +0000 http://www.briandowney.net/blog/?p=113#comment-341 I want one too. :) Too cool! I want one too. :) Too cool!

]]> Comment on Disks, lots of disks by Greg http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/07/16/disks-lots-of-disks/#comment-339 Greg Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:32:03 +0000 http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/07/16/disks-lots-of-disks/#comment-339 RAID-6 is lame. You see, when you get an array with 24 disks in it all at the same time, I will bet you one gigadollars that two of them will fail within a day of each other, thusly rendering your RAID-6 useless. I'll bet you've already had a service interruption. RAID-6 is lame. You see, when you get an array with 24 disks in it all at the same time, I will bet you one gigadollars that two of them will fail within a day of each other, thusly rendering your RAID-6 useless. I’ll bet you’ve already had a service interruption.

]]> Comment on VMware Server in Production by Randy Robertson http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/03/30/vmware-server-in-production/#comment-338 Randy Robertson Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:33:58 +0000 http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/03/30/vmware-server-in-production/#comment-338 To previous poster, yes I think you can do any arbitrary configuration using VMware Server, but ESXi is now free, so I would use that if your hardware supports if for lots of reasons. To previous poster, yes I think you can do any arbitrary configuration using VMware Server, but ESXi is now free, so I would use that if your hardware supports if for lots of reasons.

]]> Comment on VMware Server in Production by David George http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/03/30/vmware-server-in-production/#comment-335 David George Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:09:58 +0000 http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/03/30/vmware-server-in-production/#comment-335 Brian, Excellent article. Thank you for sharing. My experience: DOS 3.2 --> Win2k3, the last 10 years as a server admin at the corporate enterprise level. Beginner in Linux (very green) My last two engagements were building large ESX farms attached to fiber and IP SANs. I now find myself doing some work for a small company and I have little budget. Thus I've built the following: - Dell PowerEdge R900, 32 Gig RAM, 8x 146 Gig SAS (all RAID 10, single container) purchased through Dell Outlet for under $7K (2K cheaper than a white box and half the cost of a "new" R900) - Ubuntu 8.04.1 64 Server (free) - VMware server 1.0.6.9 (free) Never heard of CentOS until this post. Here's my question: Within ESX I can trunk multiple ports and have my VMs run their own IPs (DHCP or static) accross this. Can I do this within VMware Server? Please reply to my email address as I rarely visit these posting boards. Your time and effort are greatly appreciated. Thanks, David Brian,

Excellent article. Thank you for sharing.
My experience: DOS 3.2 –> Win2k3, the last 10 years as a server admin at the corporate enterprise level. Beginner in Linux (very green)
My last two engagements were building large ESX farms attached to fiber and IP SANs. I now find myself doing some work for a small company and I have little budget. Thus I’ve built the following:
- Dell PowerEdge R900, 32 Gig RAM, 8x 146 Gig SAS (all RAID 10, single container) purchased through Dell Outlet for under $7K (2K cheaper than a white box and half the cost of a “new” R900)
- Ubuntu 8.04.1 64 Server (free)
- VMware server 1.0.6.9 (free)
Never heard of CentOS until this post.
Here’s my question: Within ESX I can trunk multiple ports and have my VMs run their own IPs (DHCP or static) accross this. Can I do this within VMware Server?

Please reply to my email address as I rarely visit these posting boards.
Your time and effort are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

David

]]> Comment on Rubik’s Cube Robot by Greg http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/07/21/rubiks-cube-robot/#comment-333 Greg Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:42:09 +0000 http://www.briandowney.net/blog/?p=112#comment-333 That is unsane. That guy is an absolute genius and it makes me feel very angry because I cannot solve a Rubik's Cube without tearing the stickers off in frustration and slapping them back on in the "solved" fashion. That is unsane. That guy is an absolute genius and it makes me feel very angry because I cannot solve a Rubik’s Cube without tearing the stickers off in frustration and slapping them back on in the “solved” fashion.

]]> Comment on Rediggulo.us by Greg http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/07/02/rediggulous/#comment-332 Greg Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:51:11 +0000 http://www.briandowney.net/blog/?p=111#comment-332 It FAILED because it runs on ASP .Net. It FAILED because it runs on ASP .Net.

]]> Comment on Fires still raging by Piper http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2008/06/27/fires-still-raging/#comment-329 Piper Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:23:37 +0000 http://www.briandowney.net/blog/?p=108#comment-329 Looks like a smoke tornado! Looks like a smoke tornado!

]]> Comment on Mount Shasta Trip by sai prasad http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/01/02/mount-shasta-trip/#comment-328 sai prasad Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:31:49 +0000 http://www.briandowney.net/blog/2007/01/02/mount-shasta-trip/#comment-328 Excellent information. I wasn't sure what places to visit for our forthcoming Mt Shasta trip. Thanks for the very useful information. Cheers, -Sai Excellent information. I wasn’t sure what places to visit for our forthcoming Mt Shasta trip. Thanks for the very useful information.

Cheers,
-Sai

]]>