Re: [SLUG] new cluster install

2011-06-03 Thread miloska
The questions How should I setup my disks? I would not run server without some disk redundancy (RAID1,5,6). What deb based distro should I use for my host(or present a *really* compelling argument for something else)? I would use ubuntu as i'm most familiar with it but the recent debacle

Re: [SLUG] new cluster install

2011-06-03 Thread Kevin Saenz
A lot of those questions you have raised are usually answered in documentation for the virtual environment you are running. Let me add a disclaimer that I have ceased supporting organisations that are smaller than 2000 staff. So my head may be in the clouds The issue you have is you limit your

Re: [SLUG] new cluster install

2011-06-03 Thread Jake Anderson
On 06/03/2011 04:15 PM, miloska wrote: The questions How should I setup my disks? I would not run server without some disk redundancy (RAID1,5,6). That was my initial reaction, but drbd is there to provide redundancy and shared storage over the network, at least in theory ;- I spose i'm

Re: [SLUG] new cluster install

2011-06-03 Thread Jake Anderson
On 06/03/2011 04:04 PM, Kevin Saenz wrote: A lot of those questions you have raised are usually answered in documentation for the virtual environment you are running. The docs don't seem to talk about optimum setups or have reference numbers for different configurations of the same hardware. I

Re: [SLUG] new cluster install

2011-06-03 Thread Hao Lin
DRBD is great for redundancy. However judging by your specification the DRBD layer will most likely end up being the bottleneck for performance, especially when you sit multiple VMs on it. Bonding the two NICs can help, but it depends on how much traffic you are expecting from the main link as it

[SLUG] Can't Create Certificate

2011-06-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Any one give me a clue what I'm doing wrong ? I've done a two day web search on this and nothing is working... Debian Squeeze Apache server https://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/ trying to create a certificate in... /etc/apache2/ssl ... with openssl req -x509 -days 1825

[SLUG] Kogan Laptop With Google Chromium OS

2011-06-03 Thread Tom Worthington
Kogan are offering a 11.6 inch screen laptop with 30GB of solid state memory. Apart from the low price (under $400) the feature of note is that it comes with Google's Chromium Operating System: http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/agora-12-ultra-portable-laptop-chromium-os. This has prompted news

Re: [SLUG] Can't Create Certificate

2011-06-03 Thread peter
Richard == Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@googlemail.com writes: Richard Hi Any one give me a clue what I'm doing wrong ? I've done a Richard two day web search on this and nothing is working... Debian Richard Squeeze Apache server Have you verified with CaCERT that the domain name is