Articles from ADMIN Issue 16
Managing mobile devices is quickly becoming part of the administrator's daily grind. System Center Configuration Manager and Intune can help with this in Microsoft environments.
Red Hat introduces a management system for KVM-based virtualization based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and open source project oVirt. Now, solutions for desktop virtualization can be implemented without using proprietary software.
Anyone who has tried to to run graphics-intensive applications using an application-sharing protocol like RDP knows how miserably these technologies fail. But the PCoIP protocol and special hardware means that even heavy-duty workstations can operate remotely.
We look into some everyday questions that administrators with Ceph clusters tend to ask: What do I do if a fire breaks out or I run out of space in the cluster?
The Docker software can pack and run any application as a lightweight container – including web applications.
Traditional administration command-line tools such as ifconfig, route, and arp are almost as old as TCP/IP itself. We provide an overview of how the IPRoute2 toolkit now unifies the management of kernel network components.
A private repository is useful if you want to distribute your own software packages to Debian and Ubuntu machines in a controlled manner. The reprepro tool makes it easy.
