If you’re virtualizing DirectAdmin on a XenServer installation, you may wish to add additional ip addresses to the xenserver hypervisor as a gateway before proceeding. However, adding an additional IP to DirectAdmin from a different subnet gateway is also quite similar. Using the DirectAdmin control panel to add a new ip address only works if the …
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Adding additional IP’s to DirectAdmin from different subnet/gateway
March 14th, 2012 | Posted by in Linux | Virtualization - (0 Comments)Manage a Dynamic Remote IP in iptables firewall automatically
November 22nd, 2011 | Posted by in Linux - (1 Comments)Having a backup server (or any other server) behind a dynamic IP is quite common; and for us it’s no different. Which of course we treat this off-site server like any other – it must communicate with our master servers through a strict set of firewall rules. (We can’t put enough emphasis on the importance …
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Openfiler is a nice bit of software for a NAS box, but when it comes to setup and configuration you’re pretty much left on your own. There’s no good documentation (even the paid user manual is quite vague – it only describes the various checkboxes and fields and how to navigate the UI). The openfiler …
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SATA Direct Local Disk Access on Xenserver
July 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Linux | Virtualization - (46 Comments)There are several reasons why you may wish to attach a physical disk to your existing Xenserver installation, in our case we use it for both a permanent storage solution as well as moving large sets of data around (such as copying out virtual disks or data intensive backups). It’ll treat the SATA (or better yet eSATA) …
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S.M.A.R.T disk monitoring on Linux using smartctl
July 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Linux | Virtualization - (0 Comments)Monitoring your RAID array and hard disk health status using SMART should be priority No.1 on any system. Early warnings and preventative maintenance will save you time, money and huge headaches in the long run. It’s always a good practice to order your hard drives at different times or from multiple vendors in order to eliminate the …
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