Knowing that your CFEngine agents are complying to the promises is nice to have in your monitoring system, if not even required.

In this post we’ll see how to find and remove locked files on a NetApp filer.

Sometimes when working with OpenVPN it is nice to have a way to tell the OpenVPN server that you’d like to get the same IP address each time you connect to it, or in other words you’d like to get a static IP address instead a dynamic one from the IP pool.

Some time ago in a previous handbook I’ve posted about how to install and configure OpenVPN on FreeBSD.

This post is a follow-up of installing OpenVPN on Debian GNU/Linux post and provides information on setting up your firewall rules with iptables(8) for OpenVPN.

Kernel Samepage Merging is a cool feature of the Linux kernel, which you would really want to have if you are running a virtualized environment, but you would also benefit from it on a regular system as well.

In this post I’m going to show you how to resize your KVM Virtual Machine guest disk images.

In this blog post I’ll share with you how to setup the networking part of your virtualization solution using KVM.

Login to the system you want to install MySQL and install the mysql-server package.

Recently I keep playing with KVM and testing things out, and today I started noticing strange networking issues with the communication between the VM guest domains after migration to a brand new Debian Wheezy B2 hypervisor.