[ADMIN Magazine Preview] Issue 37: Distributed Filesystems

ADMIN Preview Issue 37: Distributed Filesystems

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In this issue:

Welcome: Dividing by Zero

I love automation. Almost every day I write scripts to automate some task, and then I schedule that task to take place at a specific time. Sometimes I automate so many things that I forget they're automated. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but it does happen.

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News for Admins: Tech News:

News for system administrators around the world. (more)

The view from SUSECon 2016: SUSE Goes to Washington:

SUSECon 2016 took place in Washington, DC, in the same week as the US presidential election. An interesting piece of trivia: the openSUSE conference was held in the UK during the vote on Brexit, and they voted to leave. (more)

Statistics Suppliers: Alternatives to Google Analytics

Many companies that use Google Analytics to learn more about visitors to their websites worry about privacy issues. We looked at some useful alternatives. (more)

Velocity Sensor: Application Monitoring with openITCOCKPIT

Monitoring must be able to provide information about applications and their performance. We show you how to create a database monitoring solution using the openITCOCKPIT open source tool. (more)

Secure Collaboration: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as an ownCloud server

Locally hosted collaboration servers are an alternative to letting employees swap files in a public cloud. We show you how to set up an ownCloud 9 environment on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (more)

Central Register: Designate provides DNS as a Service in OpenStack

The management of DNS entries works fundamentally differently for clouds than for classic setups; OpenStack Designate is a meaningful and well-functioning DNS as a Service implementation. (more)

Put to the Test: SDS configuration and performance

Software-defined storage promises centrally managed, heterogeneous storage with built-in redundancy. We examine how complicated it is to set up the necessary distributed filesystems. A benchmark shows which operations each system is best at tackling. (more)

Easy Livin': New Features in PowerCLI 6.0 R3

PowerCLI in the current version 6 R3 supports access to nearly all VMware data center and cloud products with around 500 cmdlets, including numerous additional features, APIs, and interfaces. In this article, we show you the most important innovations. (more)

Weak Link: Keeping Docker containers safe

Docker containers introduce serious security problems, but you can employ a number of methods to deploy them securely. (more)

Clockwork: Automating the Azure infrastructure using a command-line interface

When it comes to merging the cloud with local resources, Azure offers some useful automation tools. (more)

Cloud Director: Putting an Active Directory domain controller in the Azure cloud

Once you start putting services in Azure cloud, you might want to add an Active Directory domain controller. (more)

Logically Tunneled: Segmenting networks with VLANs

Network virtualization takes very different approaches at the software and hardware levels to divide or group network resources into logical units independent of the physical layer. It is typically a matter of implementing secure strategies. We show the technical underpinnings of VLANs. (more)

Accountant: Ralph, the open asset management tool

As IT infrastructure grows more complex, IT asset management tools become essential. They track an IT asset's life cycle from the purchase order, through practical usage, to disposal or reuse. One promising newcomer is Ralph, the open source specialist tool. (more)

Cosmopolitan: Linux configuration with OpenLMI

One of the biggest hurdles for prospective Linux administrators is a lack of standards for configuring systems based on different Linux distributions. The Open Linux Management Infrastructure – OpenLMI – is looking to establish and define a standard approach to configuring such systems. (more)

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