Last week Proxmox released version 1.5 of their Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE). The most noteable change from Proxmox VE 1.4 is support for several new linux kernel versions. The most recent kernel version 2.6.32 Drops support for OpenVZ virtualisation but adds support for the Linux Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) feature. KSM allows virtual machines (or any other processes) that have identical blocks(pages) of [...]
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Proxmox VE 1.5 Released with KSM Memory Sharing Feature
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Software, Virtualization
Tags:KVM·Linux·Proxmox VE·Virtualization
Open Source Storage News
December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Software, Storage
The past few weeks have brought some interesting milestones in the world of open source storage. The first is the inclusion of DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) in the linux kernel. DRBD has been a key component to many high avaiability solutions on Linux for the past few years and this merge will only help to widen its [...]
Tags:DRBD·Linux·Nexenta·Open Solaris·Open Source·Software·Storage
Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server
November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Software
Many companies use expensive gear from from the likes of F5 Networks, Citrix, Blue Coat etc to provide cashing and load balancing for at various points in their web infrastructure. This allows them to improve user experience and reduce the amount of back end resources required to offer a service. Yahoo uses a product called [...]
Proxmox VE 1.4 with New Storage Model Released
October 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Virtualization
Last week Proxmox released version 1.4 of their Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE). Proxmox VE is a Debian based Linux distribution with a goal of allowing one to “Setup a complete virtual server infrastructure within 1 hour.” Proxmox VE enables the easy setup of a virtualization environment that includes centralized web-based management, snapshot based backup, [...]
Tags:KVM·Linux·Proxmox VE·Virtualization
CentOS 5.4 Released with KVM Support
October 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Software
This week the CentOS team released CentOS 5.4. CentOS 5.4 is based on the freely available sources of RedHat Enterprise Linux. New in this release is support for the Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM) which is gaining traction in major Linux distributions. KVM is the virtualization techlology that Ubuntu has chosen for it’s Amazon EC2 [...]
Tags:CentOS·KVM·Linux·Virtualization
Untangle releases version 7.0
October 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Network, Software
Today Untangle announced availability of version 7.0 of it’s content filtering network gateway software. The new version of this Linux based software appliance primarily adds better more interactive reporting tools. Untangle announces availability of Untangle 7.0 [Untangle]
Tags:Linux·Network·Open Source·Untangle
Cisco introduces Linux based router for the SMB
September 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Network
Today Cisco announced several Linux based SA 500 Series Security Appliances. Targeted at business with fewer that 100 users, the the SA 500 line represents a departure from Cisco’s more expensive IOS and ASA platforms for small environments. The base SA 520 model offers a stateful packet inspection firewall, unified threat management, and IPsec VPN [...]
