Archive for August 2007

Can I manage a Linux server easily from a Windows box?

Posted on August 23, 2007, 12:25 pm, by Jeremy Pavlov, under intermediate, linuxToolsGeneral, windowsGeneral.

…submitted by Ed… Yes and no. Just *managing* it (at the server console) is fairly straight-forward, even to a beginner. But managing it *easily* from a Windows box means two additional layers of complexity over managing it on the box itself. We need to both a.) be remote, and b.) access it from things that [...]

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How do I reconfigure a used VMWare ESX server that somebody gave me?

Posted on August 10, 2007, 12:19 pm, by Jeremy Pavlov, under intermediate, vmwareEsx.

…submitted by Dave… Remember, VMWare ESX is Linux-based, not like the new VMWare Server which… well… nevermind. Anyway, the ones I’ve worked with are actually based on RedHat, around the 2.4 kernel. The good news is that we can use the old-school RedHat configuration tool, netconfig. But we have to get there first… So, plug [...]

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