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How to combine various certificates into single .pem

I've just finished reading over this great thread explaining the different SSL formats. Now I'm essentially looking for the opposite of How to split a PEM file There's 4 files I want to consolidate, originally created for Apache, I'm looking at…
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Can Exchange 2010 high availability be achieved with only 2 servers?

In Exchange 2010, you can define Database Availability Groups and have your mailbox database(s) automatically replicated between multiple servers, and you can have mailbox server which are members of a DAG also host other server roles, such as Hub…
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vmware: how to virtualize nt server 4.0?

I'm trying to virtualize a nt server 4.0 sp1. When I run the vmware converter it says that is must be at least sp3. However I can't even find this on MSDN. Has anyone had a similar experience and found a relatively painless solution. I'm trying…
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MSSQL: separate dev and prod databases as separate instances on shared hardware?

I've got a small virtualised environment which hosts a small internal website with database backend. I've currently separated my webservers and database servers on separate VMs running on the same hardware. However, I'm wondering if a better…
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Can a single ADCS instance "hold" more than one PKI namespace?

I want to save on OS license, simplify CRL renewals and have more than one certificate instance on a given server. For me, this makes sense from a security perspective because I have: One CA that acts as the root, that needs to publish & renew…
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iSCSI storage, partitioning and LVM

We are in the process of moving our (direct attached) storage systems to an iSCSI based consolidate storage and we have come up with this interesting question: where should we place LVM processing? Let me explain. We are configuring a consolidated…
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To consolidate or not consolidate hardware

I have a customer that is in need of a platform upgrade and has a specific use case that makes me think twice about consolidation. They basically have two services in the network that are currently not even isolated from each other. They have a…
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How does virtualization improve server utilization?

The biggest benefit of virtualization is usually said to be improved server utilization. But why do I need virtualization for that? Say I got N physical servers that are lightly used. Why don't I just combine all the apps on those N servers into 1…
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Consolidating Windows and Linux servers

I'm looking forward to getting your thoughts on consolidating/virtualizing 3 Windows 2008 Servers and 2 Linux Debian Servers into 1 (powerful) machine. What is the most cost-effective Virtualization software available to accomplish this. VMWare…
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ESX Server 5.1 - Consolidation Error : Locked file

I try to consolidate a virtual machine that needs consolidation but I get the message: Consolidate virtual machine disk files Servername.mydomain.internal Unable to access file since it is…
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Consolidate mssql databases into 1

I need to consolidate 20 databases that have the same structure into 1 database. I saw this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2537986/consolidate-data-from-many-different-databases-into-one-with-minimum-latency I didn't understand all of…
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Consolidate several servers into one machine

There are 10 of game servers running on 10 virtual machines. Each server listens to 10 different ports for dedicated purposes. However, usually the CPU/MEM utilization for each server is less then 10%. It's kind of a waste for using 10 VMs, since it…
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Can I migrate a single disk from a datastore to another with "disks consolidation is needed" on VM?

I have a VMware's VM with configuration issue "Disks consolidation is needed" but Consolidation fail because datastore is full. In this situation, Can I migrate a single disk from this full datastore to another (with empty space)? Or is it blocked?
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Moving Sage 200 App and DB Servers

I've tried Sage's Community pages and i'm struggling to find an answer to what i'd like to believe is a common scenario. We need to move our Sage App installation and DB to new servers as part of a data centre move / consolidation exercise. I've…
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Vmware ESX 5.1- Consolidate a VM

One of my virtual machines needs consolidation. If I start Consolidation, will my vm be unaivalable, or it will continue to work and do the consolidation in the background? thank you in advance for your answers.
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