Posts Tagged ‘Open Source’

Linux Networking Performance Throughput Testing Tool (2008-8-4)

IPerf is a free Linux tool that can be used to test throughput of network devices. It comes into its own if you plan to test maximum bandwidth performance for TCP & UDP.
On its own it is great, but when used in conjunction with JPerf it is even better. JPerf is a simple [...]

How To: Linux LVM (2008-8-4)

I have been meaning to spend some quality time with Linux LVM. Some of the features that Linux Volume Manager offers (according to Wikipedia) are:

Resize volume groups online by absorbing new physical volumes (PV) or ejecting existing ones
Resize logical volumes (LV) online by concatenating extents onto them or truncating extents from them
Create read-only snapshots [...]

Cross-Platform VMware Remote Console Alternative (2008-6-25)

iMKS is a platform independent VMware Remote Console that runs as a Virtual Appliance. It has support for lots of protocols to cover a whole host of Operating Systems:
VMware Compatability:

VMware ESX 2.x and ESX 3.x
VMware Server 2.x and Server 1.x

Protocol Support:

Microsoft RDP and SeamlessRDP
VNC and Apple Remote Desktop (ARD)
Cirtix ICA and Java-based consoles

This little puppy [...]