Well, remember the RDS Series I produced a couple of months back? At the end of the series, I promised to deliver a VDI series too.  Read More →

The concluding part in the series of articles on the Exchange 2007 Transport Dumpster, this time covering sizing and monitoring topics.  Read More →

Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates how branching rules can be built  Read More →

Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 4 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates how IPv6 and mixed IPv4+IPv6 configurations can be built  Read More →

In this webcast, we look at the first steps for creating a virtual environment. Following up on the first webcast in the series, Virtualization in a Nutshell, where we discussed virtualization technologies, we now examine the specifics you need to consider. Virtualization is an ideal solution to help reduce costs in an organization.  Read More →

Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 3 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates generated configurations for iptables , PF and Cisco PIX  Read More →

Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 2 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article demonstrates several examples of Access Policy rules and generated configurations for iptables , PF and Cisco PIX .  Read More →

Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 1 This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article explains key principles of the policy or access control rule sets in Firewall Builder.  Read More →

Creating Backups With luckyBackup On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop This tutorial explains how to install and use luckyBackup on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. luckyBackup is an application for data back-up and synchronization powered by the rsync tool.  Read More →

Clean Up Your Desktop With Computer Janitor On Ubuntu 9.04 Computer Janitor is a tool that lets you clean up a system so it’s more like a freshly installed one. Computer Janitor deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space. This tutorial shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop.  Read More →

Installation And Setup Guide For DRBD, OpenAIS, Pacemaker + Xen On OpenSUSE 11.1 The following will install and configure DRBD, OpenAIS, Pacemaker and Xen on OpenSUSE 11.1 to provide highly-available virtual machines. This setup does not utilize Xen’s live migration capabilities  Read More →

This article continues the series on terminal service scripting by integrating the Query Session command into our existing script.  Read More →

Beginning on October 16th until November 30th, 2008, TechGenix and SolarWinds will be giving away free copies of the new SolarWinds VM Monitor to all visitors who subscribe to any VirtualizationAdmin.com Newsletter.  Read More →