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This month's disc brings you the grml 2011.12 Live CD, code-named "Knecht Rootrecht" [1]-[4]. Grml is a rescue and recovery system based on Debian GNU/Linux that is designed to run from a CD. One ... grml 2011.12

[2] by VMware started to move into the server racks in the summer of 2011, but while I was researching this article, Citrix suddenly burst onto the scene with the XenServer 6.0 release [3 ... vSphere 5 vs. XenServer 6

The routing and addressing problem is nothing new in the IPv4 world. Version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IP), which is no spring chicken itself, was designed to help. This article investigates ... Most clients on a network need both an address and some environmental information such as a name server or a web proxy. This article investigates whether a recent operating system on an IPv6-only LAN ... IPv6 ... Tested: Autoconfiguring IPv6 clients

In 1995, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) chose IPv6 as the successor to IPv4. Initially, this was not an issue that raised much interest. But this changed when Microsoft added IPv6 ... IPv6 is establishing itself in everyday IT life, and all modern operating systems from Windows, through Mac OS X, to Linux have it on board; but if you let IPv6 introduce itself into your environment ... Unmanaged IPv6 ... Neglected IPv6 features endanger the LAN

Migrating the company's local network to IPv6 will not make much sense in the next few years. The situation is different for leased dedicated servers, or ones that have a genuine IPv4 address ... If you run a web server and a mail server and anticipate that users from Asia are headed towards your dedicated server, it's time to get it ready for IPv6. ... Servers with IPv6 ... Workshop: Getting web and mail servers ready for IPv6

This month's CD comes with Ubuntu's Server Edition, a version of Ubuntu 12.04 designed for server systems on production networks. New cloud and virtualization features include OpenStack Essex ... Ubuntu 12.04 Server Edition