Linux Tutorials on the topic “storage”

• Virtual Machine Replication & Failover with VMWare Server & Debian Etch (4.0)

  Author: thanis • Tags: debian, storage, virtualization, vmware • Comments: 7

  Virtual Machine Replication & Failover with VMWare Server & Debian Etch (4.0) This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to create a highly available VMware Server environment on a Debian Etch system. With this tutorial, you will be able to create Virtual Machines that will be available on multiple systems with failover/failback capabilities.

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Fedora 8)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, storage • Comments: 5

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Fedora 8) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Fedora 8 system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Fedora 8)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, storage • Comments: 0

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Fedora 8) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Fedora 8). The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (CentOS 5.3)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, storage • Comments: 8

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (CentOS 5.3) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running CentOS 5.3 system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (CentOS 5.3)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, storage • Comments: 3

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (CentOS 5.3) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (CentOS 5.3). The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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• NTFS Disk Recovery

  Author: SkipFrizzell • Tags: other, backup, storage • Comments: 11

  NTFS Disk Recovery Mary, the daughter of a friend is in college: her Windows XP laptop constantly reboots and, we suspect, has a bad hard drive. The system will boot a live CD (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Desktop), and data on the hard drive can be read. During boot, the live CD identifies disk errors and tries unsuccessfully to repair them.

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• How To Build A Standalone File Server With Nexenta 3.0 Beta2

  Author: dfed • Tags: linux, other, samba, storage • Comments: 4

  How To Build A Standalone File Server With Nexenta 3.0 Beta2 Nexenta is a project developing a debian user-land for the OpenSolaris kernel. This provides all of the advantages of apt as a package respoitory (based on the Ubuntu LTS apt repository, currently using 8.04) as well as the advantages of the ZFS filesystem. In the resulting setup every user can have his/her own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol or NFS with read-/write access.

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• [Debian-Sarge] Tunneling NFS over SSH

  Author: harm • Tags: other, debian, storage • Comments: 11

  [Debian-Sarge] Tunneling NFS over SSHThe goal of this howto is building a NFS server that works on a SSH tunnel. This way all traffic between your hosts and the file server is encrypted and thus more secure. Normally you should enter a password every time you try to establish a SSH connection but since we could be mounting at bootup we will use ssh-keygen to create a keypair so we can login without entering a password. We will, however, limit that login session to executing just one command.

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• Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, storage • Comments: 5

  Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On Debian Etch This guide explains how to set up an NFS server and an NFS client on Debian Etch. NFS stands for Network File System; through NFS, a client can access (read, write) a remote share on an NFS server as if it was on the local hard disk.

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• Unattended Fedora 8 Installation With NFS And Kickstart

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, fedora, storage • Comments: 2

  Unattended Fedora 8 Installation With NFS And Kickstart This document describes how to set up an installation environment with kickstart and NFS. With the resulting system you will be able run unattended Fedora 8 installations on the client systems in your LAN - additionally, you will save lots of Internet bandwidth. The whole client configuration can be included into the kickstart file (especially the post-installation script) so you, the admin, will also save a vast amount of time.

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