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Install Linux On Intel Xeon 7400 Dunnington

Dunnington is Intel’s first multi-core CPU - features a single-die six- (or hexa) core design with three unified 3 MB L2 caches (resembling three merged 45 nm dual-core Wolfdale dies), and 96 KB L1 cache (Data) and 16 MB of L3 cache. It features 1066 MHz FSB, fits into the Tigerton’s mPGA604 socket, and is compatible with the Caneland chipset. These processors support DDR2-1066 (533 MHz), and have a maximum TDP below 130 W. They are intended for blades and other stacked computer systems.
How To Open VMware Server Remote Console with Firefox 3.0.1
Explains how to activate / open VMware Server Remote Console plugin with Firefox 3.0.1 under Linux.
Download of the day: Vmware 2.0 Virtualization Solutions Beta Software
VMware Server is an entry-level server virtualization solution, which is proprietary, freeware software. VMware released version 2.0 beta of Server on July 1, 2008. New version provides appliance like control using nothing but a webbrowser.
VMWare: List all running Virtual Machines [ VMs ] / VPS From a Shell Prompt

You can easily list all running Virtual machines from a Linux shell prompt without accessing GUI. This is useful to scripts or to get status for any VM.
Load Balancer Open Source Software
I’ve worked with a various load balancing systems (LBS). They are complex pieces of hardware and software. In this post I will highlight some of the open source load balancing software. But what is load balancing?
It is nothing but a technique used to share (spared) load / services between two or more servers. For [...]
Linux Xen High Availability Clusters Configuration Tutorial
Xen is one of the leading Virtualization software. You can use Xen virtualization to implement HA clusters. However, there are few issues you must be aware of while handling failures in a high-availability environment. This article explains configuration options using Xen:
The idea of using virtual machines to build high available clusters is not new. Some [...]
Virtualization: Run Windows and Linux at One Place
I’ve used VMWARE ESX / Xen paravirtualization, Virtuozzo, Solaris Containers, and FreeBSD Jails as os level virtualization. Virutalbox is another full virtualization solution. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, [...]
Linux Fibre Channel over Ethernet implementation code released
Intel has just released source code for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). It provides some Fibre Channel protocol processing as well as the encapsulation of FC frames within Ethernet packets. FCoE will allow systems with an Ethernet adapter and a Fibre Channel Forwarder to login to a Fibre Channel fabric (the FCF is a “gateway” [...]
Download of the day: Oracle VM
Virtualization is the process of abstracting computing resources such that multiple operating system and application images can share a single physical server, bringing significant cost-of-ownership and manageability benefits. Through its Oracle VM product, Oracle offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization for heterogeneous applications.

Oracle VM is free server virtualization software that fully supports both Oracle and [...]
Quick Tip: Send Ctr + Alt + Del to XEN Vps / Guest os
If you hit CTRL+ALT+Delete your host will go down under CentOS Linux 5.x. The solution is hit CTRL key thrice. Now it will disable CTRL+ALT+Del for host. Next just hit alt+del to complete guest CTRL+ALT+Del cycle.
Alternatively, you can type the following on host to shutdown vps:
xm shutdown myGuestVpsOsName