Monthly Archives: October 2012

Using Dump and Restore to migrate FreeBSD to ESX server

I’ve a number of  legacy machines which need virtualising with Vmware Vsphere5. Mainly they are old servers running software and websites that cannot be ported to modern OS’s and hardware. I thought to get the ball rolling, I’d migrate our … Continue reading

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Using SSH port redirection to get Remote Access

I have been asked to have a look at a Linux server for a client which is behind a firewall, buried deep inside a corporate network with no hope of any firewall access being arranged this side of christmas. The … Continue reading

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