June 18, 2015

Iperf

Linux General,

Iperf was developed by NLANR/DAST as a modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.

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June 2, 2015

MySQLTuner-perl Script

Linux General,

MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that allows you to review a MySQL installation quickly and make adjustments to increase performance and stability. The current configuration variables and status data is retrieved and presented in a brief format along with some basic performance suggestions.

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May 25, 2015

Linux – Creating a Partition Size Larger Than 2TB using Parted Command

Linux General,

Disk /dev/sdb: 3000.6 GB, 3000592982016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 364801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

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May 12, 2015

Add multiple interface and IP address – ubuntu and centos

Linux General,

Save IPs in a file like /opt/dummy.txt and run the script to add them up. Interface add script–Ubuntu or Centos: echo Enter Distribution ubuntu\/centos

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April 30, 2015

MEGACLI Commands to check Hardware RAID config and Setup

Linux General,

01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05) The above command shows the RAID controller vendor details.

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April 28, 2015

Migrating emails from one server to another without Server access

Mail Servers,

There are many tools available for this mail to mail migration, here we are going to use "Imapcopy", which I believe to be the best and easy command line tool. It does support both Imap and Imaps protocols. Since this tool only uses 'imap' protocol to copy emails, not much of server resources will be…

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March 11, 2015

Device eth0 does not seem to be present

VMware,

After restoring a VM from datastore or after cloning a centos VM on Vsphere, we see the following error during network restart "Device eth0 does not seem to be present"

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March 10, 2015

Vmware – Unable to operate a ESX host with locked disk

VMware,

Background No operation can be performed on an ESX host and you may see files are locked by other processes.

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February 10, 2015

Integrating Parallels Virtuozzo container in Citrix Xen server

Linux General,

We are trying to install virtuozzo 4.7 in a virtual Machine that has got centos running on it. Virtuozzo installation in this VM goes fine and the VM prompts for reboot post installation. During boot operation, the VM console freezes with lot of errors whereas you can still login to the Virtual machine using putty…

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February 10, 2015

Change VLAN ID using VMware Infra Client or Vsphere client

VMware,

This guide will help you to change the VLAN ID using the VMware Infra Client or Vsphere client. Below are the information that relates to adding and removing VLAN IDs to and from a portgroup, when the following symptoms are observed.

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