Gluster 2.0
I recently went looking to see what sort of open source scalable filesystem projects existed. I wanted to see about putting together a storage solution that would scale to upwards of 100 TB using open...
View ArticleProxmox video tutorials
Anyone looking to get further acquainted with the Proxmox project should have a look at their video tutorials. The section was very helpful for me when I just getting acquainted with gui management...
View ArticlePoor Write Performance with Oracle
We recently deployed an Oracle virtual machine for development and testing purposes. Imports and database migration scripts were taking several hours on existing VM’s, so we hoped this new machine with...
View ArticlePoor LSI SAS1068E Write Performance with Linux
While doing research into poor write performance with Oracle I discovered that the server was using the LSI SAS1068E. We had a RAID1 setup with 300GB 10K RPM SAS drives. Google provided some possible...
View ArticleProxmox 2.0 feature list
Martin Maurer sent an email to the Proxmox users mailing list detailing some of the features that we can expect from the next iteration of Proxmox VE. Martin expects that the first public beta release...
View ArticleSlow backup on Proxmox using vzdump
I was recently attempting to backup one of our Proxmox VE’s using OpenVZ’s backup tool ‘vzdump’. In the past when using vzdump, a complete backup of a 100GB VE, for example could be obtained in under...
View ArticleProxmox 1.9 and Java oom problems
Ever since we upgraded from Proxmox 1.8 to version 1.9 we have had users who have periodically complained about receiving out of memory errors when attempting to start or restart their java apps. The...
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