Storage: Optimize SSDs with fstrim

By | January 10, 2017

Using SSD drives is no longer an exception, they are used in home systems but also in server systems to hold at least the OS, or other resources that need more speed than space. As any other storage disk a SSD can become fragmented as successive write/delete operations will try to use the available storage.… Read More »

Blog Links: DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance)

By | December 28, 2016

Yet another acronym, DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance). This became very important due to the high-profile phishing done by russian state sponsored hacking groups involving spoofed e-mail addresses. By sending e-mails that looked as coming from credible sources they were able to infect systems connected to political entities: Clinton campaign staff, democrat party… Read More »

#DRBD: Synchronization of sites after the failed DR (disaster recovery) site is recovered

By | April 24, 2017

This is a follow-up tutorial on the DRBD replication posts about resynchronization of sites after the failed DR site is recovered. More than a year ago I described in a long tutorial how to use DRBD in a real production environment and the challenges associated to it. See: DRBD based disk replication of a production… Read More »

#DRBD: Resynchronization of sites after the failed PR site is recovered (DRBD split brain recovery)

By | March 6, 2017

This is a follow-up tutorial on the DRBD replication posts about resynchronization of sites after the failed PR site is recovered (DRBD split brain recovery). More than a year ago I described in a long tutorial how to use DRBD in a real production environment and the challenges associated to it. See: DRBD based disk… Read More »