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Forcing server as idle as possible (all OSes, but possibly illumos too)

Sometimes a server will start showing some kind of hardware failures, not disabling its functionalities, but requiring hands-on presence (it could be days to reach, if remote post). In some such cases, the server must be kept on to preserve some…
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Is it possible to install Windows 10 on a ubuntu VPS using SSH?

I have to start an executable on a vps, but the "customer" rented an ubuntu one. I tried to install Wine as many sites and questions on stackoverflow suggested, but this VPS lacks some windows files needed to start the executable. The VPS only…
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Is there anyway to prevent malicious virtual machines from crashing host machine?

I would like to know if there is anyway to ensure security of the host machine while hosting potentially malicious virtual machines. The host machine should never crash or be compromised no matter what the virtual machine does - is this possible if…
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Best free software solution for homemade iSCSI SAN

I currently have a NAS running ZFS on Ubuntu but have recently changed my main windows software to pool local drives using Stablebit DrivePool. I cannot include networked drives in DrivePool unless they are iSCSI and are presented to the windows 10…
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Is it possible to create HA cluster on MacOS Catalina?

I couldn't find a documentation on configuring HA on Mac OS (Catalina). There's an application called Mac OS Server but the documentation doesn't talk anything about HA rather it looks to be an application to manage multiple devices. I'm planning to…
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How to remove old kernel on Ubuntu operating system

I am wondering how can I do remove old kernel from Ubuntu operating system. Please refer image screenshot taken. Please advice. Many thanks. list of linux kernel
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How to restore an OS disk onto a different, resized Azure VM as its new OS disk?

I am able to create a new virtual machine that's of a larger size than my current one, but I am not able to upgrade or resize an old VM to that larger size even though it's of a pretty similar type. So I'm thinking, since I can't resize the VM in…
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Poweredge R410 os installing

Im new here and i have no clue about servers. I recently bought a poweredge R410 with 64gb ram 16 core 2Tb single SAS hd. I downloaded windows server 2012 from microsoft and i failed to install it. There is no clear way online to do so. My goal is…
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HP Proliant DL580 G5 Server Initial Setup

I am a beginner so please bear that in mind if you choose to answer the question. I have a HP Proliant Dl580 G5 with the following specs : 4x Six-Core XEON 2.4GHz E7450 128GB RAM 4x 72GB SAS 15K I was wondering how i can go about installing or…
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Better stream performance when transparent hugepages are on

On rhel 7, when transparent hugepages are activated, I get a better stream benchmark performance than when transparent hugepages are off. Do you have any idea of a kernel parameter (or another thing) which could trigger this behavior ? I was…
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Install Windows Server 2012 on separate disk or in RAID 5?

I have a RAID controller with 4 1TB disks and first I put them all in a RAID 5 array, partitioned 1TB for OS and 2TB for data. Then I noticed that the raid array was never idle. It was constantly writing 24/7 and I figured it must be the swap…
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How can we get IO utilization for Process by Process ID using /proc directory?

I need to IO utilization for Process by Process ID without using any tool like iostat,iotop etc. Can any please help me to get IO utilization using info files using /proc/PID? Thanks in ADV.
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OS Fingerprinting, TTL=56?

I am just learning about OS fingerprinting, when i ping a certain ip address, it gives me a ttl value of 56. What is an operating system with a value of 56? I only know about the popular operating system's ttl value such as; 128 for windows xp, 64…
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Stablist / easiest to maintain free OS to run SAMBA 4, PostgreSQL, mod_perl2 on?

This is just for a 20-client network of XP Pro machines: a file/print share server, possibly a domain controller unless I can get by without it, and a db and intranet app host. I need to be able to administer it remotely; GUI or CLI is fine. What…
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Which server OS to use for intensive computations and high incoming HTTP traffic on desktop PC?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? I'm writing a highly computationally-intensive system that crawls Web-pages, processes them and dumps results into MongoDB. I'd like to pick OS that will use as little resources for…
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