2019-05-01_Linux_Format

12 LXF249 May 2019 http://www.linuxformat.com

Neilsays

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thoughit’sthesortofthingweleavetothegeniusof

ValentinetocoverinhisintermittentAdministeria

section.I tendtoaimcontentsatthesortofthingmost

homeuserscouldhavea playwithovera weekend–

unfortunately,deployinga business-wide,singlesign-on

cloudsolutionisslightlyabovethat,butweenjoy

learningaboutthepossibilities.

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MyhomenetworkhasnowgrowntofivePCs,all

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playbackPContheotherroom.

Thisworkedfairlywell,asI wrotescriptstodothe

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I enjoy every issue immensely as it only brings me

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we call Open Source and all things Linux.

I’m looking to your wise and written ways to see

what discoveries you have made or found in the HCI

(Hyper Converged Infrastructure) landscape. I have

seen some details on a Proxmox + Ceph HCI solution,

but not as modular as Nutanix. I work with

a company here in Canada and we are a leading

provider of Nutanix, that has Linux underpinnings

and while mighty, it is costly.

Is there any interest in hosted Directoy-aaS for

cloud services? One may leverage a ClearOS or

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