Technology
Last time, I had a look at how to monitor VMware vSphere from FreeBSD using the Perl SDK . Quite simple using the ports!
Believe it or not, installing and running the VMware vSphere Perl SDK on OpenBSD is as simple as breathing. Here’s the POC.Continue reading...
On my servers, I don’t want mail alerts to stay locally but to be forwarded to root@. There are two ways to do so: either put a .forward file in the home of service user that may send e-mail or configure the local MTA to forward email to root@. Depending on your local MTA, this can be more or less complicated. Usually, I end using sSMTP.
But this time, I want to do it using OpenSMTPD. Here’s how.Continue reading...
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, TuM’Fatig ran on a Sun Fire V100. One day it was pluggued off for some apartment move and was never powered on again.Continue reading...
It’s been a while since I owned a Sun Ultra 5, back to 2002. It has run many OS, mostly BSD flavoured, and served me well in many cases. It has been tweaked a bit: add a Quad HME card, replace the CD-ROM by a CD-RW burner and replace the fan and PSU by silent PC parts.
I’ve just powered it on and it is indeed quite silent. I really would like to use it again… if it wasn’t needing 61 Watts (more than a Mac Mini G4). So here we are, a last OpenBSD install before I find a new home for it.Continue reading...
Part of my daily job is checking clients infrastructure health. Most of them have VMware vSphere, some have Hyper-V. I use a home-developed set of tools to gather, compute and report performance and health data and metrics. Quoting Veeam ONE for VMware and Hyper-V homepage: “(…) Veeam ONE is a single solution for powerful and easy-to-use monitoring and reporting for VMware and Hyper-V. It provides complete visibility of the virtual infrastructure and affordably delivers the capabilities that matter most to virtualization administrators”. Read the official homepage for more information.
Here I’m going to have a quick look at what Veeam ONE 6 does, how and if it’s worth it.Continue reading...