I haven't had much time to continue work on FreePanel, but the Perl modules I've written have proven to be useful in cluster management. Take a look at the following diagram as an example scenario:
So I've been working on a setup for virtualization, where currently I'm using one large iSCSI target from an OpenSolaris machine. It occurred to me that there is a downside to this. I cannot use zfs snapshots for individual machines and backups/restores will be more difficult. I also did not want to be hassled with having to connect the iscsi targets using iscsiadm every time I spin up a new VM.
What's been keeping me busy? Well I've been working for a managed hosting company (DataPipe) and that has been the biggest source of time suck for me. Outside of that I've been working on some Perl modules to make administrating load balanced servers as easy as possible. For now, read the source if you want to know more:
I had to enumerate all the wireless access points around school today. So I booted up BackTrack 4 on my Eee PC and ran airodump-ng to create a list of ESSIDs, their corresponding BSSIDs, and the channels they were running on.
