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Building energy efficient servers

At Jump we really like energy efficient servers. We try to encourage our customers to choose power-friendly hardware, so much so that in 2008 we changed our pricing scheme to do away with a per U or per server charge, … Continue reading

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Configuring ZFS auto snapshot destroy thresholds

A feature of ZFS automatic snapshots is automatic cleanup of snapshots when disk space is ‘low’. 95% full is considered an emergency, and all snapshots are purged, which probably isn’t desired with several TB free! The following will appear in … Continue reading

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Configuring Cisco Easy VPN Server and Client on ASA 8.4 with Network Extension Mode and Split Tunneling

This is an example of a clean Easy VPN (EzVPN) Server configuration with Network Extension Mode (NEM) and Split Tunneling, for Cisco ASA software version 8.4. The Cisco website has some more sample configurations, but they tend to be entire … Continue reading

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