varsha Xen : Bridging on bonded & trunked interfaces
cloudibee When you deploy some critical stuffs like Oracle DB, Oracle RAC DB etc on the Xen or Oracle virtual machine, you’ll have to use bonded network interfaces and the vlan…
Netapp Snapvault guide
Netapp SnapVault is a heterogeneous disk-to-disk backup solution for Netapp filers and heterogeneous OS systems (Windows, Linux , Solaris, HPUX and AIX). Basically, Snapvault uses netapp snapshot technology to take…
Vmware – Netapp cloning : Rapid VM provisioning
Checkout this demo of provisioning 5000 Vmware VMs using Netapp File cloning and volume flexclone technologies. Good one ..
Configuring Persistent static route in Linux
Static routes will be added usually through “route add” command. The drawback of ‘route’ command is that, when Linux reboots it will forget static routes. But to make it persistent…
Xen : Adding and removing NICs on virtual machines
Virtual Network interfaces can be attached or detached from a guest virtual machine (domU) while the virtual machine is up and running. The below Xen networking steps gives details on…
GSmartControl : GUI for smartctl
GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for Linux smartctl, which is a tool for querying and controlling S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. You…
iperf : Network throughput measurement tool
Iperf is a commonly used network testing tool that can create TCP and UDP data streams and measure the throughput of a network. Iperf allows the user to set various…
Vmware Performance tuning Tips
These posts explain about Vmware performance tuning on Linux servers. Tips for improving performance on a Linux host Vmware IO performance tips These links explains the tips to tune the…
EMC CLARiiON AX Demo
Gotitsolutions.org has a great demo or EMC CLARiiON AX. You can see the demo here. More details of EMC CLARiiON AX can be found here.
Xen performance monitoring
Xen’s Hypervisor does not have an easy collection of performance counters. The management machine – “Domain-0″ is actually a privileged virtual machine, and thus – get its own small share…
OpenSource Tools for AIX
Here are several websites that has OpenSource Tools for AIX. The “IBM AIX Toolbox” has the most tools, but not necessarily the most current versions. The other links are also…
Linux Kernel panic reboot
By default after a kernel panic, Linux kernel just waits there for a system administrator to hit the restart or powercycle button. This is because of the value set on…
Netapp Ontap Management SDK
Netapp provides an SDK ( Netapp API ) that contains resources necessary to develop third-party applications which monitor and manage Netapp Filers. The SDK contains libraries, code samples and bindings…
Solaris : Auditing File attributes
Solaris has a software registry which maintains information of software packages installed. The registry is invaluable for auditing the system to determine what software has been changed, installed, removed, or…
Linux Tips : Useful links
Came across the below links and it has lot of useful linux tips – neat and great. Checkout them http://www.brunolinux.com/ http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/how_to_linux_and_open_source.htm