Firewalling VMware ESXi with Smoothwall

Posted on July 27, 2011 by James Thorne

VMware ESXi (also known as VMware vSphere Hypervisor) is a very popular virtualisation platform. VMware give ESXi away for free but it has no firewalling. I wanted to add a firewall and chose to use Smoothwall Express.  There are several … Continue reading →

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Software RAID1 plus GRUB drive replacement

Posted on July 26, 2011 by James Thorne

Help! A drive in my software RAID1 array has failed and needs replacing. There are already a lot of posts on the web on how to replace the drive (e.g. here and here). Unfortunately, when I came to follow them, … Continue reading →

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Is Gluster the answer?

Posted on July 25, 2011 by James Thorne

So, you don’t want all the hassle of setting up DRBD and Red Hat Cluster services but still want to have a replicated file system you can share between nodes.  What can you use? Well, Gluster is one option.  I … Continue reading →

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