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Various Linux tid-bits.

VMware over NFS

Posted by ericjk on November 24, 2007

Found a great blog entry from an Engineer at NetApp that discusses advantages of using NFS in a VMWare environment.

VMWare over NFS

Quote: “People may find this hard to believe, but the performance over NFS is actually better than FC or iSCSI not only in terms of throughtput but also in terms of latency. How can this be people ask?”

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HOWTO: Create, Recover and Automate System Images

Posted by ericjk on November 23, 2007

I posted a HOWTO to the Ubuntu Forums that covers creating, recovering and automating the imaging of Linux systems. Unlike other processes there is no need to unmount any partitions, run special agents, use only services like ftp, capture only one partition at time, and can be done with the server or workstation is up and running.

HOWTO: Create, Recover and Automate System Images

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