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30 days of Barracuda Spam Filtering

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| Spam, Virtualization

First, I did NOT pick Barracuda by default. I’ve been using Open Source versions of software to remove and prevent spam from hitting our email servers for years now. I was given a 30 day free trial for my company, NetworkX, to test with.   Loading the product… Now, lets start with some good news. […]

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Installing VMware Player 5.0.2 on Fedora Core 18 gives a misleading failure message

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| Virtualization, VMware

I was installing VMware Player 5.0.2 onto my Linux laptop that runs Fedora Core 18. The installation works perfectly, and the first time you click on VMplayer, it starts to install. I would get  a error message “C header files matching your running kernel were not found. Refer to your distribution’s documentation for installation instructions”. […]

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Converting a Physical AXP OpenVMS Alpha server to Virtual.

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| Hardware, OpenVMS, Virtualization, VMware, Windows 7

With everyone in the world converting from “Physical” server to virtual, and in our attempts to use less electricity, less cooling, and just being “Greener”, I decided to look at Migration Specialties Avanti. You can find Migration Specialties at www.migrationspecialties.com .   We currently have different AXP servers, but for my test, I will convert a Dec […]

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Window 7 Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) on ESX 4.1

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| VMware

Well, over the weekend, I got a chance to convert from using XP Professional for my “Windows” needs to Windows 7. When I created the Windows 7 system Virtual Machine [VM] on ESX 4.1 with update 1, I used the defaulted “LSI Logic SAS”. This has been the “Controller of choice” for many a Windows […]

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Modifying logwatch to work with ESX 4.1

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| VMware

I just like how some software, like logwatch, does a great job at monitoring and sending you daily log files. You can really stay on top of things with a wonderful free opensource product like this.   Unfortunately, logwatch does not really know about ESX, and the differences between a regular Linux server and the […]

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