Tweet This post is intended to be a general guide for configuring “stickied” load balanced HTTP servers. Whether it’s F5 load balancers, foundry load balancers or open source based load balancers (keepalived/lvs), the concepts are the same and can be migrated across said platforms. If you have a paid of foundry’s and are looking to [...] Read More
Creating a Xen template
Tweet One way to increase the efficiencies of Xen based systems is to utilize templates. VMware talks about this in their whitepaper for ESX2 best practices. With Xen, you have to create your own. Here is a straight forward guide for how to do it. 1. Bootstrap a DomU named -tpl (e.g. centos4-tpl). I recommend [...] Read More