We make a lot of posts that give IT tips and advice, as well as recommendations on how to use Monitis, so here is a summary of the posts for this week in case you missed them.

Monitoring IIS With VBScript via Monitis; It’s so Easy!

This post demonstrates how to monitor an IIS using Monitis Custom Monitors and VBscript. You can use the Monitis API to monitor your own custom metrics. This is very powerful because it lets you monitor any IIS metrics you like, set thresholds and receive notifications.

Top 4 Software Based IIS Server Performance Tips

These 4 …

High Availability MySQL Cookbook (Alex Davies, Packt Publishing) presents different approaches to achieve high availability with MySQL. The bulk of the book is dedicated to MySQL Cluster, with shorter sections on: MySQL replication shared storage block level replication performance tuning The recipes are clear and well explained, based on a CentOS distribution, and it seems … Continue reading High Availability MySQL Cookbook review →

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Last month at OSCON I had the pleasure of discussing High Availability and Open HA Cluster with "Jack Adams." Here's the video for your viewing pleasure:

Nick Solter
Solaris Cluster / Open HA Cluster developer and author of OpenSolaris Bible

Last month at OSCON I had the pleasure of discussing High Availability and Open HA Cluster with "Jack Adams." Here's the video for your viewing pleasure:

Nick Solter
Solaris Cluster / Open HA Cluster developer and author of OpenSolaris Bible

Last month at OSCON I had the pleasure of discussing High Availability and Open HA Cluster with "Jack Adams." Here's the video for your viewing pleasure:

Nick Solter
Solaris Cluster / Open HA Cluster developer and author of OpenSolaris Bible

We are pleased to announce the release of High Availability Cluster software for OpenSolaris 2009.06! If you've been following along, this release is the fruit of project Colorado. Open HA Cluster 2009.06 is based on Solaris Cluster 3.2, including many of the features from the most recent update. Additionally, Open HA Cluster 2009.06 contains the following new features:

• The ability to use Crossbow VNICs as …

We are pleased to announce the release of High Availability Cluster software for OpenSolaris 2009.06! If you've been following along, this release is the fruit of project Colorado. Open HA Cluster 2009.06 is based on Solaris Cluster 3.2, including many of the features from the most recent update. Additionally, Open HA Cluster 2009.06 contains the following new features:

• The ability to use Crossbow VNICs as …

We are pleased to announce the release of High Availability Cluster software for OpenSolaris 2009.06! If you've been following along, this release is the fruit of project Colorado. Open HA Cluster 2009.06 is based on Solaris Cluster 3.2, including many of the features from the most recent update. Additionally, Open HA Cluster 2009.06 contains the following new features:

• The ability to use Crossbow VNICs as …

In a lot of environments.

Peter gives a nice overview why you don't always need to invest in big fat redundant hardware.

We've tackled the topic last year already ..

Now I often get weird looks when I dare to mention that Raid is obsolete ..people fail to hear the "in a lot of environments"

Obviously the catch is in the second part, you won't be doing this for your small shop around the corner with just one machine. You'll only be doing this in an environment where you can work with a redundant array of inexpensive disks. Not with a server that has to sit in a remote and isolated location.

Next to that there are situations where you will be using raid, but not for redundancy, but for disk throughput.