Migrating from VM to Hierarchical Jails in FreeBSD
Using VMs is a traditional and efficient way to separate servers but is it really needed when creating a FreeBSD VM on a FreeBSD host?
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Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine
I believe it’s time to bid farewell to this venerable Linux server - 1690 days of uptime since last reboot
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That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010
In 2010, one morning, a client called. My task was to set up a new complex server within a tight two-day window. Given the constraints, I opted for my top choice at the time for such tasks: NetBSD and Xen. To my astonishment, over 10 years later, the server was still up and running perfectly
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Boosting Network Performance in FreeBSD's VNET Jails
In the recently created FreeBSD VPS, the network performance of vnet-enabled jails was significantly lower compared to that of traditional jails. Upon investigation, it appears that there is an issue related to Virtio drivers.
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Creating a Mikrotik CHR (RouterOS 7) bhyve VM in FreeBSD
RouterOS 6 is running great on bhyve. Unfortunately, things change when dealing with RouterOS 7. It doesn’t boot at all. Here’s how to solve.
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How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 3 - Proxmox to FreeBSD
This is the story of a successful migration from Proxmox to FreeBSD. VMs, LXC containers and services are now running on the new server.
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Creating an Alpine Linux VM on bhyve - with root on ZFS (optionally encrypted)
bhyve on FreeBSD is great and Alpine Linux can be a great VM for docker or lxc/lxd container deployment, especially if using ZFS for rootfs.
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