Resizing LVM Partition of ESXi guest

10Jun09

I have a Ubuntu Server running as one of the virtual machine, as my standard practice, I only allocated 8GB for a vanilla installation. Today, one instance of the server requires far more than that, hence requires me to provision more. The thing is, if I had partitioned the virtual disk normally (without LVM), things [...]

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Migrating Xen to ESXi

27May09

After almost 6 months evaluating two virtualization solutions: Opensource Xen and VMware ESXi, it’s  time to do some consolidation. It’s actually partially triggered by the need to put a RAID system in place. The Xen server will become the new ESXi server, and the ESXi server will be used as the SAN server
The target system [...]

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PyTables Data Sharing

15Mar08

PyTables is a great API layer for handling HDF5 format in python. Unfortunately the API does not support networking capabilities yet, i.e. client-server communication model.
There are 3 possible approach that we can look forward to.

PyDap – This data access protocol is meant for more general purpose. It has been working well particularly for csv format. [...]

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Create New Post — WordPress

01Nov07

This is pretty neat feature from wordpress.
Say you’re surfing around the web, right…  then you came across an article that you thought it would be good for your topic in your blog.  you click the special bookmark worpress have for you. it automatically gives your new post a title and a link back to the [...]

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