[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 38, Issue 25
Why not "closed source" VMWare, which is the pretty much been there from the beginning? You've got VMWare Server, which is free and will run on top of CentOS and/or Fedora. You also have an option of ESXi, which is also free and which I would recommend over VMWare Server due to it's preformance superiority. We were running about 10 or so VMWare Servers until I've tested ESXi. Now everything is slowly moving over to ESXi. If you will decide to go with ESXi though, hold the purchase of the new server and make sure it's compatible first. Andre > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Sridhar Dhanapalan > To: SLUG > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:13:52 +1100 > Subject: [SLUG] virtualisation solutions? > We're getting a new box at work to host virtual machines, and I'm > trying to figure out what the best virtualisation solution might be. > The specs will very likely be a dual quad-core CPU with 32GB RAM, > running CentOS. > > I'd like to have something that: > > * is FOSS > * is easy to manage (I've got other responsibilities and don't want to > be bogged down with sysadmin work) > * can preferably also run on our Fedora 8 desktops, so we can share VM images > * can support a wide variety of guest OSs (especially Linux, Windows > and Solaris) > > Most of my experience is with VMware, but that's proprietary. We've > got some Xen experience in the office, but this server will be managed > by me and quite frankly I find Xen to be overly complicated. KVM looks > very neat, in that it uses Linux as the hypervisor and so doesn't try > to be an OS unto itself. It's also Red Hat's preferred virtualisation > platform nowadays, which is great since we use a lot of Red Hat and > CentOS. > > Cheers, > Sridhar > > > -- > Bring choice back to your computer. > http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux
Given that my Lacie Ethernet disk just died, I was thinking of solid backup solutions for my personal files (20-30Gb). Since I have already Linux hosting with way more disk space than I need, I thought it will be great if I could sync a folder on my local drive to a folder on that Linux box... somewhere there. The problem is my local box running Windows, otherwise rsync would do wonders. Anybody knows of a good tool I could use to sync Windows folders to Linux ones? And the one that will work over Internet, not just LAN. Thanks in advance. Andre. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux
Is there something not necessarily based on rsync? ftp, for example? Andre. 2009/5/26 Christopher Vance : > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote: >> I use unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ >> >> It claims to run on Windows, but I have no experience with that. > > It does. I've used it on Ubuntu, Windows, OpenBSD, MacOS, and Solaris. > > The biggest problem with Unison is that the protocol changes so > frequently that you may have difficulty finding precompiled versions > for your different operating systems which run compatible protocols. > > It may be easier to compile from source, but then you'll need to have > ocaml compilers on the relevant machines... > > -- > Christopher Vance > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux
ftp is the last resort, rsync is obviously a better one. Also, not aware of good tools that would check the differences in directory trees and update only the files that are different over ftp. Andre. 2009/5/26 Dean Hamstead : > why not use ftp then? > > > Dean > > Andre Kolodochka wrote: >> >> Is there something not necessarily based on rsync? ftp, for example? >> >> Andre. >> >> >> >> >> >> 2009/5/26 Christopher Vance : >>> >>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Alan L Tyree >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I use unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ >>>> >>>> It claims to run on Windows, but I have no experience with that. >>> >>> It does. I've used it on Ubuntu, Windows, OpenBSD, MacOS, and Solaris. >>> >>> The biggest problem with Unison is that the protocol changes so >>> frequently that you may have difficulty finding precompiled versions >>> for your different operating systems which run compatible protocols. >>> >>> It may be easier to compile from source, but then you'll need to have >>> ocaml compilers on the relevant machines... >>> >>> -- >>> Christopher Vance >>> > > -- > http://fragfest.com.au > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux
What's the difference? I have "My Documents" (or any other directory with precious files) with all subfolders, which I want to be also stored somewhere else, so when my drive blows up I can get all that stuff back. And any changes in any file under My Documents should be reflected in the copy on remote server when I do run some sync tool. When I had a network drive, I simply used MS SyncToy to sync with a directory on networked drive. I also use rsync at work to copy the changes that were done overnight to files on remote RH box and copy them over to local Centos server. So I thought rsync Windows client sort of tool might do the job, that's why I mentioned rsync. FTP might work, but I haven't seen tools that would ftp in and compare the whole tree on remote host and local drive and replicate the changes. Although I've found Synchromagic (http://www.gelosoft.com/adescr.html) today, will try that. Andre. 2009/5/27 Matthew Hannigan : > Well, do you want just to do backups or are you looking for something > fancier? > > Your original mail mentioned only backups in the body (as I recall) > but you use the "synchronising" in the subject line. > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] File server
Hi, I need to set up a simple file server in office. The main requirements are: 1. windows share access (samba) 2. ftp access 3. scp access 4. http read only access There will be a number of directories with different access permissions for different users and groups. I'd like to know whether there are any existing solutions that would allow this out-of-the-box? We can pretty much configure 1-3 ourselves and with some help probably get 4 (http) going with just a linux box. However, if there's already solution - why reinvent the wheel. I've been advised to look into DMSs, however that's slightly more than what I need for relatively simple file sharing. So, any ideas? Regards, -- Andre Kolodochka http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrek https://www.xing.com/profile/Andre_Kolodochka F: +61-2-9475-4774 | M: +61-408-282-138 Skype: kolodochka MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Restricting access to certain IP addresses with OpenVPN
Hi sluggers, We have OpenVPN server running internally for employees to access our network from home. We have a request from a potential client to access some internal demo systems. They are happy to install and use OpenVPN client, however I won't be happy giving them the full access to our network. Hence the question. Is it possible to restrict access for certain users only to specific set of IP addresses? So everyone except this client will be able to use VPN to access everything on the network as usual and potential client will be able to access only boxes on those specific IP addresses? Thanks in advance, -- Andre Kolodochka http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrek https://www.xing.com/profile/Andre_Kolodochka F: +61-2-9475-4774 | M: +61-408-282-138 Skype: kolodochka MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
