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OpenStack multiple compute node resources allocation for single vm instance

Im learning about OpenStack and understand that resources of a single compute node can be allocated and shared between multiple vm instances. If we assume that I have a single application that requires resources exponentially and runs on a single vm…
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What is the best way to organize my active directory structure

i would like to adopt the best structure for my active directory domain, in order to be able to apply GPO efficiently. Here is my schema : CompanyName\ServiceName{Users, Groups, Workstations, Laptops} My first question is about geographical sites :…
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WAN Design Questions

I've been tasked with redesigning our company's WAN in North America. We have two offices in the U.S., one in NY and one in the midwest. We also have offices in Europe. I won't be touching anything in Europe, with the exception of joining the Euro…
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One active directory server for one geographical site?

we have an 2008 R2 active directory server on our main site. Recently we opened a small secondary site. My question is pretty simple : our 2 sites are connected with a VPN, is it mandatory for us to install a secondary AD server on our secondary…
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Installing Windows Server 2008 Once or XP three times?

I have an application which makes use of Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010. This application performs some tasks requested by a user and then closes. I am going to be putting my application on a virtualised Windows OS using vMware ESXi 4.1 There are two…
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Too many data replication technologies in environment

It is possible to configure remote data replication at many layers of the storage stack. Some examples to explain what I mean by layers: Physical Volume Layer (TruCopy, SRDF/MirrorView, SnapMirror) Virtual Server Layer (vReplicator, Veeam) Logical…
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Network Designing

I have seven Sites. Each Site contains about 15 to 20 users who are connect via ADSL and lease line. My question is how to design a network infrastructure. To Solve above problem I Create One Domain Controller & Additional Domain Controller in Head…
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Best Practice for deploying PHP on multiple servers

I'm currently deploying some PHP Zend applications on my servers and this is currently what I got. 1st Layer - Load-balancer + Http-cache. 2nd Layer - web-server (will have many more webservers in here, that's why the load-balancer). 3rd Layer -…
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How to set up multiple web and database servers?

My websites have been growing in terms of traffic and the load on the mysql has been increasing. I wanted a solution that would help deal with the increased load on mysql (all queries already optimized) because of the increase in traffic + backup…
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How can 24X7 hours availability for an application be achieved?

I was asked this question in an interview: I have a sql server and an asp.net application. I want 24X7 hours availability for my application even if the server crashes. What are the different ways to achieve it at the code level and at higher level…
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What is your recommendation for a software load balancer or load sharer for the given case?

I have provisioned a server with 8 cores and plan on deploying a network service. For spreading out request load I'd like to run 8 instances of my service. Nothing shocking here. I do not have access to a hardware load balancer. I should mention…
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Kubernetes cluster shared storage and backup solutions

Which shared storage solutions are common for Kubernetes cluster to implement shared storage persistence for containers? NFS on NAS / iSCSI somehow? How do you backup the data on a Kubernetes with this type of storage?
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Changing architecture while upgrading (ubuntu 16lts)?

I wonder if there is a way to change architecture (from 32 to 64bits), even upgrading (or not) from 16.04lts to 18.04lts ? I've looked at do-release-upgrade and other options, but I saw nothing about architecture. Is it at least possible ? Rm *
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LINUX - how can I detect CPU architecture through terminal?

I have a machine on my network that I can only access through ssh, and I want to see if it'll support a 64-bit OS (currently running linux, but I don't know which). Any ideas how to accomplish this through terminal command/s? thanks.
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Restricting access to a specific domain on AWS

Our current setup is ALB -> Target Group -> EC2 instances At the moment it's possible to access the EC2 servers behind the load balancer using the IP address of the ALB, the DNS Name (e.g. xxxx-5555555555.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com) as well as the…
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