Ubuntu: How to get XenCenter running under Wine and connect to a Xenserver
Update 02.06.15: added Tahoma2 fonts to make it look better Update 05.12.15: Some Issues with disconnects from the server seem to be resolved with Wine 1.8 RC1.staging. Using it now…
Ubuntu : zram memory compression (compressed swap in ram)
Update 02.03.2015: added (modified) Centos / Redhat: Update 24.11.2022: added (modified) Promox 7.3x / Debian 11 A successor to compcache is zram which is fully integrated in the Linux kernel…
Debian / Ubuntu – Install apt-cacher-NG as package proxy for Debian / Ubuntu and Centos Fedora clients
This is nothing really new, but definitely worth tracking because it just make sense and works fine. If you either virtualise or have otherwise many Debian / Ubuntu / Centos /…
Overview of the Support Lifecycle for a few selected Enterprise Linux Distributions
This was first posted on http://linuxdistributions-lifecycle-comparison.cloud7-itconsult.com Overview of the Support Lifecycle for a few selected Enterprise Linux Distributions. Last Updated 26.11.2014 RedHat Enterprise Linux (13 year extended support) RedHat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7 RHEL 6…
Debian 7: Installing iSCSI LUN as raw disk (iSCSI initiator)
I have a new Debain 7 server (VM) and would like to use a raw iSCSI Lun on it presented from my QNAP (and put ZFS on it at the end…
QNap NAS and BTSync qpkg: How to manually update BTSync
Update History: 15.10.2014 – Broken qpkg btsync 1.4.76 update to BT Version 1.4.91 BTSync is THE killerapp for my NAS. It seperates me from all the cloud storage flaws out there. Unfortunately…
ZFS: Fun with ZFS – is compression and deduplication useful for my data and how much memory do I need for zfs dedup?
It is widely know that ZFS can compress and deduplicate. The deduplication works across the pool level and removes duplicate data blocks as they are written to disk. This results…
Centos: How to make splunkstorm forwarder autostart at boot.
I love Splunk for log aggregation and searching through it. It’s a great tool that comes is various versions http://www.splunk.com/view/free-vs-enterprise/SP-CAAAE8W including a limited free cloud based version https://www.splunkstorm.com. I use…
VPS : Basic checks for performance of a VPS and or a Server
There is more than one way to check the performance available on a VPS Server but I go for a 1st quick shot to test if something is falling over.…
CentOS 7.X: How To Install The EPEL Repository
Update 09.09.2014: Updated to epel release 7-2 Update 06.12.2014: Updated the Epel 7-2 location Update 31.07.2015: Updated to Epel 7-5 location CentOS 7 is out and based on CentOS 6.X: How…