Hyper-V virtualization in a routed network
While I normally use Linux or Unix as a virtualization platform, with the decision of the General Assembly of my colocation provider Coloclue to allow the Microsoft Windows operating system in her network their wasn’t that much response. Last couple of months however we welcomed a member who is a Windows administrator. This isn’t much […]
Containers with FreeBSD
2 years ago I made a post about creating a high available system with KVM/Qemu and Bird. Although I still use bird, I have tried it out using FreeBSD Jails and the bHyve hypervisor. The bird setup is still the same, so you find it on the previous post. For this setup you need Jails […]
Backup your data
Some months ago I had an issue with a failing disk in my raid array of my main server. The Disk in question was part of the raid5 array that hold all my data. Raid 5 means 1 disk for parity, so a second drive failing would mean the end of my data. Thankfully the […]
Routing with anycast
Around a year ago I posted about routing my own prefixes to my machines with BGP, and running anycast. anycast is a routing architecture where your visitors are going to the (logical) nearest node of the cluster. I run a 2 node cluster, located in 2 different datacenters in Amsterdam in the Coloclue network. In […]