For those interested in scaling storage performance, Bala Narasimhan from PernixData was the guest on a recent episode of the PowerScripting podcast, discussing FVP (https://www.pernixdata.com/product/) Episode 263 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bala Narasimhan from PernixData on FVP and PowerShell
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 25,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many … More 2013 in review
I was recently attempting to install the .NET Framework 3.5 features on a Windows Server 2012 R2 instance, where this would fail with the below error message: As the binaries are on demand and therefore not included the installation adding the features will attempt to contact Windows Update to retrieve the files required. In my … More Unable to install .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2
The following details the steps to deploy MongoDB on a CentOS using .rpm packages and basic configuration following deployment. For deploying MongoDB on alternative platforms, check http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/installation/ for deployment steps. First of all we will need to configure the package management system to hold the configuration information for the MongoDB repository: by creating the following file … More Install MongoDB on CentOS
I am currently using Puppet to automate infrastructure within a cloud offering, Amazon Web Services (AWS) for those interested!. As part of deployment of new instances, I require the client certificate to be automatically signed by the Puppet master server to immediately begin the configuration. This can be achieved by allowing the master server to … More Auto-signing client certificates on Puppet Master Server
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