I am skipping the SmartOS introduction because Magnus Hedemark has us covered with Discovering SmartOS. Instead, I’ll dive straight in and tell you that it’s great as an all-in-one storage and virtualization server, despite only being branded as the latter....
Continue reading...How to fix a stuck ZFS log device
I ran into a troublesome ZFS bug where a pool with a log device became “stuck”. The zpool remove command would complete but would not remove the device. This was a bad place to be in, because the device was...
Continue reading...Integrating Snow Leopard Server with Unix LDAP and NFS
I recently purchased a pair of Apple Xserve boxes for a project at work, with the goal of providing a functional Mac OS X desktop environment via our existing Sun Ray thin-clients. These two systems will be setup using Aqua...
Continue reading...New co-lo box
It has been about six years since I last upgraded my co-lo box that hosts a myriad of services and websites for opensource, business, friends, and personal hobbies. Now I have a new machine in place that should last at...
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