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Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery

Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job? Or perhaps you need some light reading material to help you get some sleep on the plane between consulting engagements â€" either way, welcome to the...

Tags: Recovery, Network File System, File System, Photovoltaics, Backup, Volume, Partition, Machine, System Rescue CD, LVM, Volume Group, Linux, Manufacturing, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-07

LVM Chooses Red Hat Solutions as Strategic Platform for the Future

With about three million customers, Landwirtschaftlicher Versicherungsverein Munster A.G., or LVM, is one of the largest insurance companies in Germany. The tradition of Linux within the company reaches back to the year 2000, when a combination of strategic considerations led to the company developing its own Linux version. The company...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., LVM, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

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Enhancements and Benefits of Logical Volume Manager Layout 2 for HP-UX 11i

HP-UX Logical Volume Manager LVM and the mirroring capacity offered by Mirrordisk/UX present one with a continuously growing set of capabilities. LVM and Mirrordisk/UX functionalities contribute to a highly-available and disaster-tolerant data environment. Fully integrated with HP OnlineJFS and HP Serviceguard Solutions technologies, the HP Logical Volume Manager and Mirrordisk/UX...

Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle11i, Benefit, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

White papers 2009-08-01

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?Jboss would complement Websphere?Really? Is that like how MySQL is going to complement Oracle's flagship product? Doesn't make sense to me, these products are in direct competition with eachother.I think the biggest threat to RedHat's business model is CentOS. Smart...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Storage, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., X64, Linux, Sun T2, server

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

Westinghouse LVM-37W1

Westinghouse LVM-37W1great bargain!Cheap TV and worth the price, have this in my office and works well with the PC and HD signal.

Tags: Westinghouse

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Using encrypted filesystems with Linux Volume Manager

Vincent Danen favors the Logical Volume Manager LVM for easy partitioning in Linux and tells you how to take advantage of its volume encryption feature.

Tags: Vincent Danen, File System, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software

Download resources 2009-04-03

LVM New Features in HP-UX 11i v3

In HP-UX 11i v3 (11 .31), LVM delivers significant performance, scalability, usability, and availability enhancements. After the initial release of HP-UX 11i v3 in February 2007, there have been three updates of HP-UX 11i v3: September 2007, March 2008, and September 2008. This paper lists all the new LVM features...

Tags: HP-UX, Oracle11i, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2008-10-30

HP-UX LVM Supported Limits

Starting with HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23), the supported limits of LVM volume groups has gradually increased. In HP-UX 11i v3 (11 .31), LVM delivers significant performance, scalability, usability, and availability enhancements. This paper summarizes the LVM supported limits for different volume group versions supported on HP-UX releases. Beginning with the...

Tags: HP-UX, Oracle11i, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-09-25

Maybe I was wrong about Mac Servers

Maybe I was wrong about Mac ServersSo ZFS is the sole criteria for a quality server OS or not?Has data loss due the underlying file system really been the problem Robin and you are making it out to be?RE: Maybe I was wrong about Mac Serversye: Veritas VxFS indeed has...

Tags: Desktops, Servers, server, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Proof that Linux is for geeks with too much time on their hands!

Proof that Linux is for geeks with too much time on their hands!No LVM stuff required for WindowsAlso, all you need to do for windows is mount the image destination could be a local USB drive and run "partimage". The GUI does the rest.For restores, just do "partimage" and path...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Acronis, LINUX IS, GUI, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

Reiser FS: The open source file system fallout

Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina. While I won't go into the details of the case, as this has been covered extensively in the press, I would...

Tags: File System, ReiserFS, Zetabyte File System, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Liquid Player 1.10 (Windows)

Liquid Player implements the LVM, a virtual machine that sits on top of Windows. Programs that run in the LVM have access to many advanced features, such as consoles, 2D/3D graphics, audio, SQL databases, XML, Internet access, and much more! To run you must open any Liquid Executable File.Version 1.10...

Tags: Global Heavy Industries, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-02-13

Liquid Studio 1.02 (Windows)

Liquid Studio is a powerful development suite that creates programs for the Liquid Virtual Machine LVM. Programs are written in Echoes, a modern object-oriented BASIC-like programming language. The Liquid Virtual Machine included with Liquid Studio and available as a separate download has access to many advanced features, such as consoles,...

Tags: Global Heavy, Programs, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Internet, Programming Languages, Microsoft Windows, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-01-25

Solaris vs AIX (2)

Solaris vs AIX (2)umm, dead wrong on everything, I thinkYes Solaris/Sparc does support partitioning, has for years. But ldoms are ldums - put in to sell to people who think this stuff is critical but not conceptually part of Unix.Containers are - they're an upgrade on the users/groups business.Basically one...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, IBM AIX, Unix, virtualization, Sun Solaris, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-18

Solaris vs AIX: It's the technology

From a technical perspective, of course, the right way to compare AIX to Solaris is to look at the technology. That might seem like it should be a lot of work but a long article by IBM's Shiv Dutta: AIX 5L Version 5.3: What's in it for you? on...

Tags: Disk, IBM AIX, IBM AIX 5L, Option, Sun Solaris, Dutta, Logical Volume, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Manage storage in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Gain an understanding of the many storage configuration schemes some of which can be combined in Red Hat Enterprise Linux in this chapter download from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration. Chapter coverage includes: Understanding partitioning -- straightforward and necessary but for some mount points but lack the option...

Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sams Publishing, Red Hat Inc., Storage, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Chapter Coverage, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

Book chapters 2007-09-27

Supporting Huge Address Spaces in a Virtual Machine for Java on a Cluster

To solve problems that require far more memory than a single machine can supply, data can be swapped to disk in some manner, it can be compressed, and/or the memory of multiple parallel machines can be used to provide enough memory and storage space. Instead of implementing either functionality anew...

Tags: Java, Operating System, Memory, Virtual Machine, Flash Memory, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software

White papers 2007-09-21

HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes HP-UX 11i V3

Logical Volume Manager bundle BaseLVM is the HP-UX default Volume Manager. It provides the user with flexibility in configuring and managing mass storage resources. In HP-UX 11i v3, the LVM kernel and commands are bundled with the core HP-UX product. This white paper provides information about the Logical Volume Manager...

Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle11i, IBM Lotus Notes, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-09-01

Comprehensive RAID performance report

Comprehensive RAID performance reportHere is one way to look at it..Good Article!This shows the fundamental problem with raid 10. Everything acts as one volume. All the IO is shared between all the drives of the redundant mirror. Thus giving you one big expensive and slow volume. ...

Tags: Processors, Storage, Testing, CPU, parity calculation, database, database application, server

Discussion threads 2007-05-04

It runs on OS X, now it runs on Ubuntu...Still no Vista

It runs on OS X, now it runs on Ubuntu...Still no VistaWhat's with the CLI ...What's the hang up with the command line? The command line is a tool just as with the interface. Some tasks are much easier to execute using the command line instead of hunting for the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, Apple Mac OS X, Perfect Example, command line, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ubuntu, VPC 2007, CLI

Discussion threads 2007-05-02