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With the upcoming release of our Gentoo platform we will start to regulate the disk performance of all virtual machines. The new rules will help to achieve more uniform performance in our cluster and reduce the impact of load peaks from individual…

Mit dem nächsten Release unserer Gentoo-Plattform werden wir für alle virtuellen Maschinen die Geschwindigkeit der Festplatten neu regulieren. Die neuen Regeln sorgen dafür, dass die in unserem Cluster insgesamt verfügbare Performance gleichmäßiger…

During our daily work with deployments it is kind of routine to customize a package downloaded from the internet. In most cases this means downloading a tar file, extracting it and finally to modify some of its content to fit our needs.

Migrating PostgreSQL from one version to another has become pretty easy. Using pg_upgrade it takes a few seconds to upgrade even a 100GiB database. It becomes interesting when you switch platforms, say from 32bit to 64bit, as we are facing it with…

We have been using Ceph since 0.7x back in 2013 already, starting when we were fed up with the open source iSCSI implementations, longing to provide our customers with a more elastic, manageable, and scalable solution. Ceph has generally fulfilled…