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Using Docker on SmartOS Hypervisors
January 27, 2016
SmartOS is a OpenSolaris based hypervisor consisting of an Illumos environment severely stripped down, QEMU and a port of the Linux KVM module to Solaris. With the no anymore so recent addition of LX-branded zones and docker to SmartOS, it is possible to conveniently provision docker containers on SmartOS.
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Compiling ZFS Against Different Kernels
January 26, 2016
Options for
./configure
are often counter-intuitively named. -
Building ZFS Enabled Live CD for Debian
January 26, 2016
To safely experiment and work with ZFS root filesystems on Debian-based systems, it is necessary to have fall back options in place. This includes a Live CD with precompiled ZFS modules. As ZFS is not available in the standard Linux kernel and in the standard Linux distributions, I will briefly explain how to build such a Live CD and link to scripts to save the typing.
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Piping nagios viz. check_mk Performance Data to ElasticSearch
August 14, 2015
Performance data gathered by the nagios
check_mk
agent can be transported to and stored in an ElasticSearch database to save the original time-resolution from being reduced by the round-robin database mechanism. -
Installing Postfix Relay Host for Local Network on SmartMachines
March 17, 2015
Installing Postfix on a SmartMachine is trivial as long as you do not defer far from the usual ;-)