2008 Metrics

Goodbye to Year 2008 and hello Year 2009! Yes, this is the first post of Year 2009.

Remember I posted Year 2007 Metrics one year ago and this is the second time I would like to share about Planet Malaysia metrics. Basically the web statistics details are based on Google Analytics and Awstats.

Year 2008 Dashboard
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Year 2008
* 332,302 Visits
* 424,393 Pageviews
* 1.28 Pages/Visit

Year 2007
* 153, 147 Visits
* 216,087 Pageviews
* 1.41 Pages/Visit

Year 2008 Visitors

Year 2008
Total of 332,302 Visits
Total of 294,447 Unique Visitors
Total of 424,393 Pageviews
Total of 1.28 Average Pageviews
00:00:55 Time on Site
84.41% Bounce Rate
88.31% New Visits

Year 2007
Total of 153, 147 visits
Total of 131, 178 unique visitors
Total of 216, 087 Pageviews
85.92% new visitor
14.03% returning visitor
Average 419.87 visitor per day
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January 2, 2009 · Filed Under Announcement

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Boot gOS from USB Drive Experience

Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick really make our life easy especially for IT administrator. Imaging you can easily carry Linux System in your pocket.

I was managed to install gOS on a USB flashdrive referring to “USB gOS install from Windows” tutorial. The installation guide are pretty simple:

1. Download and run gOSConvert3.exe, a gOS folder is created
2. Download the gOS ISO and place the ISO in your gOS folder
3. From your gOS folder, click fixgOS2.bat and follow the onscreen instructions
4. Reboot your PC and select your USB device from the Boot Menu or system BIOS and proceed to boot gOS from your USB device

Booting up a gOS with USB drive on a physical machine only took me about 2 minutes but it never boot up gOS or SLES 10 using Sun xVM VirtualBox.

Referring to guide “How to boot from USB in Sun xVM VirtualBox” from Shashank Shekhar’s Blaawg. Too bad, VMware Workstation 6.5.1 DO NOT support booting from USB drive.
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December 5, 2008 · Filed Under Open Source

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Basic vmware-cmd VM Management tips

Sometimes using a command line is much more faster than using GUI. Personally I found VMware Virtual Center always have bugs. The following article will guide you how to use vmware-cmd VM management tool for some basic VMware administrative tasks.

The figure below illustrates states, transitions, and state changing commands for virtual machines.
VMware

List path and names of registered VM guest vmx files on the present host
For an example:
# vmware-cmd -l
/vmfs/volumes/473ddda7-2a53d446-x25b-001aa0288d45/SLES9/SLES9.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/473ddd52-a6f731ac-3125-001aa0288d45/SLES10/SLES10.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/473dde07-d8a0f854-rqqa-001aa0288d45/WIN2K3-01/WIN2K3-01.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/473dde07-d8a0f854-eqqa-001aa0288d45/WIN2K3-02/WIN2K3-02.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/47f0819a-9f092588-548c-0015174a435a/WIN2K8-01/WIN2K8-01.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/473daqws-2a53d446-625x-001aa0288d45/WINXP-01/WINXP-01.vmx

VMware ESX provide basic power state options include:

Power on — Powers up the virtual machine and boots the guest operating system if the guest operating system is installed. How to power on VM guest using command line:
#/usr/bin/vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/473dde07-d8a0f854-rqqa-001aa0288d45/WIN2K3-01/WIN2K3-01.vmx start

Power off — Powers down the virtual machine. The virtual machine does not attempt to gracefully shut down the guest operating system. How to power off VM guest using command line:
#/usr/bin/vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/473dde07-d8a0f854-rqqa-001aa0288d45/WIN2K3-01/WIN2K3-01.vmx stop

Suspend — Pauses the virtual machine activity. All transactions are frozen until you issue a Resume command. How to suspend VM guest using command line:
#/usr/bin/vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/473ddda7-2a53d446-x25b-001aa0288d45/SLES9/SLES9.vmx suspend

Resume — Allows virtual machine activity to continue, and releases the Suspended state. How to resume VM guest using command line:
#/usr/bin/vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/473ddda7-2a53d446-x25b-001aa0288d45/SLES9/SLES9.vmx resume

Reset —Powers down the virtual machine and restarts it. How to reset VM guest using command line:
#/usr/bin/vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/473dde07-d8a0f854-rqqa-001aa0288d45/WIN2K3-01/WIN2K3-01.vmx reset

How to check VM guest power state
#/usr/bin/vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/473dde07-d8a0f854-rqqa-001aa0288d45/WIN2K3-01/WIN2K3-01.vmx getstate
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August 18, 2008 · Filed Under How's To, Tips, VMware

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Thanks to VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 Bug

I would like to thanks to VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 BUG, it’s really make it busy today. Thanks god, it’s only happen to few of my VM guest and most of them are not mission critical machine.

Anyway, an official letter from VMware CEO Paul Maritz said about 2 failed.

  • Not disabling the code in the final release of Update 2; and
  • Not catching it in our quality assurance process.

I guess the person in charges have to responsible and probably someone may terminate. This is really a big mistake and we know how’s is the VMware quality control work.

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August 13, 2008 · Filed Under VMware

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Veeam Backup 2.0 has been released

Less than five months after the first release, Veeam Backup 2.0 has been released!

The interesting features like:

  • Real-time statistics and reports
  • Support for VMware ESXi (free of charge)
  • Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) in Windows guest OSes backup
  • Support for 3rd party tape backup devices
  • Backup and replication combined
  • Fast file-level recovery
  • Database-consistent backup

Veeam Backup

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July 30, 2008 · Filed Under VMware

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