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ESXi - What Do?
#13998014 - 02/20/11 08:57 PM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anyone out there got an ideas on new things to run on my ESXi server?
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Re: ESXi - What Do? [Re: total]
#13998478 - 02/20/11 10:07 PM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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Guess i should list what the box already does?
Always on PFSense - Routing/Firewall Windows Xp Corp - Dedicated ActiveHome box Windows Xp Corp - Monitor box, sniffs selected network traffic Openfiler - Provides network storage Windows Xp Corp - PSP iso server Turnkey LAMP Stack - Tracmor server Turnkey Torrent Stack - Network downloader Trixbox - Asterisk server Ubuntu Server - Altitude Server Ubuntu Desktop - Basic Linux needs Windows 7 Ult - Whatever i might need this for... MythTV - Home DVR Folding@home
On When Needed Backtrack - Security Scanning FOGServer - Cloner OSX and OSX Server Ultimate Deployment App Win 3.11 - LOL
There are a few more than that, but that pretty much lists the whole box's functions...
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Re: ESXi - What Do? [Re: total]
#13999990 - 02/21/11 08:43 AM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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Really depends on what you are trying to learn/do!
Try running some proprietary unix that might make you money in the long run, learning to administrate ((open)solaris anyone ) Routing experiments with m0n0wall or pfsense are fun too.
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abetterlie said: Really depends on what you are trying to learn/do!
Try running some proprietary unix that might make you money in the long run, learning to administrate ((open)solaris anyone ) Routing experiments with m0n0wall or pfsense are fun too.
 A current project is trying to learn how to load balance with vlans
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Re: ESXi - What Do? [Re: total]
#14000029 - 02/21/11 08:56 AM (13 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hah. Doing that on a 'real' router is straight black magic at times. On cisco it's almost a waste of time. The hardware counters are nearly useless when troubleshooting utilization on multicast traffic, and that's basically all the tools you have outside of cloning interfaces at l2 and capturing.
A fun way to do this and learn some really useful skillz at the same time is to use the tools that 29west built to generate a bunch of streams and then split up vlans and see if you can get everything to route properly and not blow up your load balancing. Or maybe this is not the kind of thing you are interested in. Was fun for me anyhow.
http://www.29west.com/docs/THPM/index.html
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oh oh oh. Make a puppet manifest for each of your boxes and see if you can get your environment on all these platforms to be the same so you can seamlessly jump between them and have all your openfiler shit mounted, your .vimrc setup, and all the shit you need installed.
IPv6 lab?? I haven't the time or balls to get myself to do this yet, but also a good idea to play with.
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personally, i would start to simplify things.
all that seems needlessly complicated.
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Re: ESXi - What Do? [Re: total]
#14825626 - 07/26/11 01:06 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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 Always lookin for new stuff to run or try...
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#14825634 - 07/26/11 01:08 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I do host a minecraft server on it now for shroomery members...
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#14849359 - 07/30/11 04:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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