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Puppet resource dependency

Hello everybody, When I do puppet apply, I get the error: Warning: Scope(Mod::Cl[title]): Can't load '/tmp/file.yaml' File does not exist! Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement, Evaluation Error: Operator '[]' is not…
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Latency load balancing + failover solution

I am looking for a latency (or geo) load balancing solution combined with dynamic fail overing. The infrastructure is based on 3 dedicated severs from OVH. The servers are located in 3 different geographical locations (Canada, France and…
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How to let Ansible pick a datastore and ESX host in VMware?

I need 50gb space, 64gb of ram and 2 cpu's for new virtual machines. We want to use Ansible for infrastructure as code, but what would best practices in letting Ansible picking the right datastore and esx host? Write a python command based on the…
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networking devices for structured cabling - building and campus distributors

Which type of network hardware devices (Router vs Swtich) you would use as a campus distributor in a structured cabling project? It seems logical to use switches as building distributor, we can implement VLANs to isolate broadcast traffic between…
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How to use another IP-address for outgoing traffic?

Background I run a server with two external IPv4 addresses. IP-address A (IP-A) and IP-address B (IP-B). Goal I would like to access IP-A over HTTPS port 443 and SSH port 22 only. IP-B shouldn't listen to any incoming traffic. Then I'd like the…
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Infrastructure Wireless Network Without Router

Is there any way to create an infrastructure wireless network without a router? In other words, is there some way to make a PC behave as a wireless router? Other PCs should be able to see this network as an access point network, not as an Ad-hoc…
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Infrastructure Wireless Network Routing

Suppose there are two clients, A and B, on the same infrastructure-based wireless network with access point C. When A wants to send a packet to B, does C have to forward it to B, or can B just pick it up off the air directly from A. Basically what…
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Geo-Availability Single Terminal Server Opinions

First off, I am not an Azure specialist by any means, but I do have experience with creating Azure VM's for site to cloud replication and stand-alone cloud environments for business solutions. Recently, I been tasked with proposing a solution for a…
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Pros and cons of virtualization

I'm aware of many questions here discussing similar topic, but in this case, I'll try to be much more specific. One target scenario is small to mid-size ISV, the second scenario is an enterprise infrastructure. Following thoughts applies for both…
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Infrastructure advice - appliaction and network servers

I'd like to ask for server infrastructure advice. We'll be upgrading our network infrastructure (built on MS ecosystem) and so far we have two servers (not counting ISA server): one machine serves application services like Exchange, IIS, SQL, etc.,…
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Load Balancer and using multiple SSL certificates

Here is our current production configuration at a 3rd party data center: •2 LINUX/CentOS tomcat web servers behind a shared load balancer •DNS entries point to the load balancer •Web apps are written using Java 6, Spring 3, Hibernate 4. The data…
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Can I build an Azure Only infrastructure for my small business?

I have small business, 63 people now, but we are growing slowly. We have no Active Directory, we use Office 365 for email, and about 25% use Macs. We are kind of spread out, 3 offices with more than 5 people, and several folks work from home…
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LAN Redundancy - NIC, Cables + Switch?

I'm trying to move to a HA solution and would like to understand what hardware is required to have redundancy in the NICs, switch and cables. The diagrams below show how I envisage a non-redundant and redundant solution, I don't know if they're…
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Separating Secure Network and DMZ (nonsecure) in a PCI Compliant Infrastructure

We are setting up a PCI Compliant infrastructure where most of our applications are running in a DMZ (demilitarised zone) that contain no sensitive information. The part that contains sensitive information is secured in a private subnet. We have two…
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Questions to ask when choosing an infrastructure

My company will be in need of a backend to bootstrap its services and I'm in charge of the infrastructure choice. The products will consist of several apps (mobile, web, desktop) with a common backend (something like a huge API I guess). Basically,…
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