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Configuring a Highly Available Service on FreeBSD – Part 1: HAST
One of the problems a system administrator has when providing services like NFS on a network is that sometimes they are critical to the business and downtime needs to be kept to an absolute minimum. This problem can be solved with tools native to FreeBSD. In this...
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2013 Recap
On November 18-19, 2013, the OpenZFS Developer Summit was held at Delphix in San Francisco, California. The summit was attended by developers from many different companies who are currently building products using the ZFS file system. FreeNAS developers from iXsystems...
Tracking FreeBSD in FreeNAS by Using Git for Newbies
This is the second in our series of presentation recaps. In addition to Craig's presentation (which can be found here) at the FreeBSD Vendor Summit held on November 7, 2013, iXsystems was also represented by Alfred Perlstein. Alfred Perlstein, iXsystems Vice President...
LISA ’13 Recap
We are well into the fall tradeshow season. This new recap comes from our second-to-last conference of the year, the 27th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA ‘13) in Washington, DC. This year, we sent Matt F, Josh, and Dru. Afterwards, they were...
Jenkins, bhyve, and WebDriver: Continuous Integration Testing on FreeNAS
On November 7, 2013, the FreeBSD Vendor Summit was held at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, California. The summit was attended by representatives from many companies who are interested in building commercial products and services on FreeBSD. iXsystems was well...
FreeBSD Programming Primer – Part 9
In the ninth part of our series on programming, we will add some security to our CMS and refine our interface for adding content. In part 8 of the series, we created the PHP script amendcontentpage.php which allowed the user to add data to any table in the CMS (Figure...
Migrating from Linux to FreeBSD
In the following article, I will share with you what I learned when I have converted my servers from Debian to FreeBSD. I will explain the common problems you could have, what you should consider before changing the system and what motivated me for this “adventure”....
The Revamped Life-Preserver
How New ZFS Utilities are Changing FreeBSD & PC-BSD Since the inclusion of ZFS into the FreeBSD base system, it has revolutionized how enterprise users have managed their data. However due to higher memory requirements and the difficulty of the initial setup, it...
FreeBSD Moves to Subversion
FreeBSD users are accustomed to being able to download the entire operating system source code with the ability to compile additional functionality into the kernel and applications. This service had been previously provided by the cvsup and csup programs. Due to the...
vBSDCon 2013
Last weekend, Dru, Kris, John, and Matt Olander went to Dulles, VA to attend vBSDCon. I had heard a lot of excited talk beforehand in anticipation of the event from our employees. Afterwards, I asked them for their thoughts and a rundown of their experience at the...
