April 24, 2009As I mentioned in my previous post, I discussed how to get networking working under Debian Lenny on the new Nehalem systems at SoftLayer. However, it seems like there are lots of users who want to get Virtuozzo on RHEL/CentOS running on these boxes. A guy named Shikhir got ahold of me via a Web [...]
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I recently had the opportunity to set up a few Nehalem based servers at SoftLayer to replace some older hardware that we were using.. and these servers /rock/. The servers have the E5520 CPU’s, and kick the snot out of the E5430’s that they replaced. We were able to actually able to replace 6 dual-5430’s [...]
Tagged as: Debian, Linux, Open-source
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