Tag: Hardware

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Siddharth Deekshit. Today’s Q&A post covers an interview between Siddharth Deekshit, Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery engineering and Quentin Drion, IT Director of Infrastructure and Operations, MSC. MSC is a global shipping and logistics business, our conversation focused on their organization’s journey with Azure Site Recovery (ASR). To learn more about achieving resilience in Azure, refer to this whitepaper. I wanted to start by understanding the transformation journey that MSC is going through, including consolidating on Azure. Can you talk about how Azure is helping you run your business today? We are a shipping ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Meltdown and Spectre are related bugs in computer processors which can lead to disastrous security breaches and data leakage. Searching for these keywords will reveal an overwhelming number of explanations at different technical levels, so I will not attempt to offer yet another one here. If you are interested in the original — technical — article on the subject, I recommend this article by Google.In a recent blog post, James Pogran described how to leverage Puppet Bolt and Puppet Tasks to detect Spectre / Meltdown vulnerabilities on Windows. With the new meltdown module ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; With any luck, you’ve seen all the reports about the vulnerabilities recently discovered called Spectre and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, and CVE-2017-5754) and know how serious they are. And odds are, you’re already planning the rollout of the patches and BIOS updates needed to bring your environment into compliance, and you have a good idea of how many nodes need to be touched, but you don’t have an easy way of verifying the current state of things. But you need a quick way to determine what the current state is, and for that way ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. Kubernetes is a technology that allows us to isolate an application. That is good but how can we scale this? Of course, we should create new containers. But, how many containers should we have at the same time? How many servers should be involved? Who will monitor all nodes to balance loading and redirect queries to less loaded nodes? Also, how can we update our app without stopping? The answer is Kubernetes. What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Tom Tasker. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSMicrosoft SQL (MSSQL) is an enterprise-level database application used by some of the world’s largest companies. With business-critical data housed in MSSQL databases, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) are essential features of any MSSQL deployment that businesses have to architect for. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), server resources for large MSSQL deployments can be taken out of the data center and run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The ability to boot these instances in minutes provides ease ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Yves Trudeau; As the second part of the earlier post Give Love to Your SSDs – Reduce innodb_io_capacity_max! we wanted to put together some concepts on how InnoDB flushing works in recent Percona Server for MySQL versions (8.0.x prior to 8.0.19, or 5.7.x). It is important to understand this aspect of InnoDB in order to tune it correctly. This post is a bit long and complex as it goes very deep into some InnoDB internals.InnoDB internally handles flush operations in the background to remove dirty pages from the buffer pool. A dirty page is a page ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Siddharth Deekshit. Today’s Q&A post covers an interview between Siddharth Deekshit, Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery engineering and Quentin Drion, IT Director of Infrastructure and Operations, MSC. MSC is a global shipping and logistics business, our conversation focused on their organization’s journey with Azure Site Recovery (ASR). To learn more about achieving resilience in Azure, refer to this whitepaper. I wanted to start by understanding the transformation journey that MSC is going through, including consolidating on Azure. Can you talk about how Azure is helping you run your business today? We are a shipping ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MyDBOPS; As a part of Mydbops Consulting we have a below problem statement from one of our client. “We have a high powered server for reporting which in turn powers our internal dashboard for viewing the logistics status.Even with a high end hardware, we had a heavy CPU usage and which in turn triggers spikes in replication lag and slowness. Below is the hardware configuration.“ OS : Debian 9 (Stretch) CPU : 40 RAM : 220G (Usable) Disk : 3T SSD with 80K sustained IOPS. MySQL : 5.6.43-84.3-log Percona Server (GPL) Datasize : 2.2TB Below is ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; *Editor's note: We invite you to join us at Puppetize PDX this 9-10 October 2019. It's a beginner-friendly event, complete with training opportunities.*So you’re ready to get started with Puppet and you don’t know where to begin. That’s alright, because this blog post is meant to point you in the right direction. My most common recommendation for complete newbies is to check out learn.puppet.com and run through a few of the self-paced learning videos that explain what Puppet is and how it works. Once you’ve gotten the hang of that, the Learning VM ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. One of the great things about PostgreSQL is its reliability: it is very stable and typically “just works.” However, there are certain things that can happen in the environment that PostgreSQL is deployed in that can affect its uptime, such as:The database storage disk fails or some other hardware failure occurs The network on which the database resides becomes unreachable The host operating system becomes unstable and crashes A key database file becomes corrupted A data center is lost There may also be downtime events that are due to the normal case of operations, such as performing ... Read More