The Cult of Gary

05 Mar

Compacting vmdk files with LVM

I have to distribute development VMware images to the developers. Since we don’t have office space at this point, we’re using cable modems to transfer the images around. This is a bit of a pain for 2GB+ images.
The image I built uses LVM. When I try to use the vmware-toolbox to compress the vmdk, the [...]

15 Feb

JMeter + Leopard + RR DNS = Frustration

I’m trying to do some simple load testing. I have a couple of web servers being “load balanced” with Round Robin DNS. That part is simple and is working fine.
I’m trying to simulate load using JMeter. JMeter has worked great when pointing at a single host so far. I’ve been able to spin up threads [...]

08 Feb

Apache, CIFS and Blank Documents

This one took me a bit to figure out. Google wasn’t much help — I hope my blog post fixes that!
Our developers are using a VMware image of our server install for developing. In order to speed things up, they are mounting a Windows share of the code from the VMware image. It worked on [...]

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