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Refers to the 4th revision of the Internet Protocol, where addresses are usually displayed in the form of dotted decimals between 0-255. Ex: 169.254.0.1
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Vagrant is a tool to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. By default, it uses Oracle's VirtualBox for these virtual environments, but support for other virtualization systems is available. Most questions about Vagrant should be asked on Super User or Stack Overflow.
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VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software suite for x86 and x86-64 computers from VMware.
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Voice over Internet Protocol (Voice over IP, VoIP) is one of a family of internet technologies, communication protocols, and transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.
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Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995.
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SpamAssassin is a computer program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules.
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Redis is an open source, highly-scalable key-value store, commonly referred to as a "NoSQL database."
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batch files are simple text files executed in a command to achieve a particular task or a set of tasks
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A failover cluster is a group of servers that work together to maintain high availability of applications and services
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logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate
large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression,
removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled daily,
weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large.
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Power is required for all our servers, desktops, and other electronic devices to operate.
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strongSwan is an open source, multi-platform IPsec-based VPN solution, with IKEv2 & IKEv1 support
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Secure Copy or SCP is a means of securely transferring computer files between a local host and a remote host or between two remote hosts. It is based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol.
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Windows services, also referred to as NT services, are background service processes run by the Service Control Manager based on the service settings and optionally restarted as needed. Windows services are also capable of being launched on demand, based on other service dependencies.
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In computing, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network.
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FirewallD is a firewall service daemon with D-BUS interface managing a dynamic firewall. First used in Fedora 18, it is expected to be the default firewall tool for future versions of Enterprise Linux.
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The Common Internet File System (previously known as SMB) is a layer 7 networking protocol providing file and device sharing across local networks. It was originally designed and implemented by Microsoft as part of the Windows operating system.
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dnsmasq is a lightweight DHCP, DNS and TFTP server application for *nix platforms intended for use on small and home networks.
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OpenVZ is an open source containerisation technology for Linux which utilities containers to run separate Linux based operating systems on a single machine. OpenVZ is typically used as it touts a low overhead, of around 1-3% of CPU, compared to virtualization technologies.
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Address Resolution Protocol is a layer 2 networking protocol used for resolving layer 3 addresses (such as IP addresses) into layer 2 addresses (such as Ethernet MACs). It is used by network devices when communicating with devices on the same layer 2 network.
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LXC short for (Linux Containers) LXC is an operating system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single control host.
LXC is the userspace control package for Linux Containers, a lightweight virtual system mechanism sometimes described as “chroot on steroids”.
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Terminal: 1) A device or program used to talk to a terminal server, usually over Serial or RDP, 2) A synonym for command-shell or command line, 3) A specific OS X program.
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Decrease the size of data, typically to preserve space or reduce network bandwidth required while transmitting files. It can be applied to files, folders, disks, etc.
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IBM is a computer hardware and software vendor operating in a variety of market spaces, including Unix systems, "midrange" (AS/400) systems, Mainframes, and consumer workstations/laptops. This is a generic tag designed to be used if no more specific tag exists for your IBM product. See the partial list of IBM tags in the full tag wiki
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Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and combining infrastructure safely and efficiently.
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A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children.
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TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is a network attached storage (NAS) server appliance distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system
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Performance tuning is the process of modifying a system to improve its efficiency. This is also known as optimizing.
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Environment variables are configuration options that can be set in a shell or other similar environments. All programs started from within the shell can read them and configure themselves.
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Serial ATA (SATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. Serial ATA was designed to replace the older ATA (AT Attachment) standard (also known as EIDE), offering many advantages over the older parallel ATA (PATA) interface.
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Systems Center Configuration Manager is a product by Microsoft that is used to manage the Configuration of multiple Windows-based systems.
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The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains settings for low-level operating system components as well as the applications running on the platform.
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