Category Server Management
Netmask and subnet mask are often used as if they’re the same thing, but subnet masks are mostly used in network configurations, while netmasks often refer to classes of IP addresses. They’re used to define a range of IP addresses…
OpenStack
The OpenStack cloud framework offers a very useful platform for hybrid and private cloud computing, which probably either wouldn’t exist, or at the very least would be quite different, if Linux hadn’t been involved. Linux offers the kind of flexibility…
Oracle VM Server
If you’re using Oracle applications in an x86 environment, you might want to think about deploying Oracle VM Server for your virtualization duties. There is tight integration and certifications requirements around the operation of Oracle products so it is easy…
Plesk
Plesk is one of the most popular paid-for hosting platforms both in the United Stated and in Europe, where it is the strongest in the market. There are different editions of Plesk and Plesk supports both Windows and numerous Linux…
PowerVM
Both IBM and Oracle are popular vendors for enterprise applications and just like with Oracle IBM’s virtualization solution is a good fit for IBM applications. So, if you use technology such as IBM Linux or AIX, or run applications on…
Proxmox VE
For Linux environments sysadmins could consider Proxmox VE as a good alternative to Red Hat, in large part because it is relatively cheap compared to Red Hat solutions. At the moment it looks like Proxmox is quite popular in some…
RAID
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, and it’s great for backup purposes. The word ‘redundant’ comes from the fact that the same information is written to more than one hard disk, so if an active disk fails then…
Red Hat Virtualization
VMware is very popular for server virtualization, but in Linux environments Red Hat Virtualization provides strong competition – in part because Red Hat is much cheaper but also because some people find that Red Hat is easier to manage compared…
Server Redundancy
As a term, server redundancy is used in relation to backup, failover, or redundant servers within a computing environment — specifically, the amount of them and their intensity. This defines a computing infrastructure’s capabilities for providing extra servers that might…
Server Virtualization Software
Server virtualization has been around for a while – it become prominent in the early 2000s and was arguably pioneered by VMware. Companies quickly started using virtualization broadly because it rapidly became apparent how virtualization can help companies to consolidated…