One of the most complex parts of storage in general and ZFS in particular is correctly assessing the amount and types of storage that you will need to meet your requirements. You can of course just purchase what you can afford and hope for the best. But after reading this…
Securing SSH with Publicly Accessible Servers
Just about every IT environment has some sort of remotely managed environment which requires that they have SSH open to the Internet. Perhaps this is a VPS, dedicated server, or colocation. Regardless of your reason, the fact is that there is just some times where you need to have SSH…
vCenter: VPXD Crash
Recently I was trying to resolve an issue on a small vCenter 5.0.0 deployment. Basically the primary symptom of the issue was that the service the vmware-vxpd service was crashing and needing to be restarted frequently. The first thing I did was examine the log files, while the service was…
The Changing Face of Enterprise Support
Now let me preface this post by saying… I am writing this article from my professional experiences, inside of a software company which provided enterprise support for its products, as well as from the perspective of the Enterprise Customer. I am intentionally discarding all experiences with support as a home…