Parallel NFS (pNFS) is a part of the NFS v4.1 standard that allows compute clients to access storage devices directly and in parallel. The pNFS architecture eliminates the scalability and performance issues associated with NFS servers deployed today. This is achieved by the separation of data and metadata, and moving the metadata server out of the data path.
Ceph is most popular software-defined storage platform and offers Objec-Storage, Block Device and File System (CephFS) for storing data in modern data centers or public and private clouds. Best and popular solutions needs alternatives as well. So at this post, we’ll review some alternatives for Ceph.
This is a review post about an amazing software which made to be time reference in network with some unique features. Network Time System made by Softros Systems and provides a solution to system time maintenance problems.
This is a sad story. We are not using any Directory Service such as Active Directory (I was fighting for active directory during past 4 years!) because of Gap of Knowledge in our department.
HashiCorp is one of leaders which providing automation tools for large-scale of cloud solutions. Let’s see which solutions provided by HashiCorp.
Ansible is one of most popular IT automation systems but if you want to have User Interface for Ansible, you have few options. Red Hat offers Ansible Tower as an enterprise edition of Ansible which includes an UI. Ansible Tower (AWX Project) is available as community edition but some version may be released with minimum of tests. There is another Open-Source project that you can use it, Ansible Semaphore.
Group Policy is Windows administrators’ favorite management tools that provides centralized management and configuration of operating systems, applications, and users’ settings in an Active Directory environment.
VMware vSphere 7 introduces lot of new features but there are some features which removed or deprecated in VMware vSphere 7. Some of them were important features for us but VMware has defined some policies to achieved new and updated solutions in server/desktop/OS Level virtualization.
Recently, vSphere 7 has been released by VMware at 2nd March 2020. The new version are includes massive improvements and features. Some of new features are related to virtual machine hardware. Usually, each major version of vSphere will introduced new hardware version and vSphere 7 has come with hardware version 17.
Linux is one of most poplar operating systems for desktop, server, virtualization and any other purposes (That was also the most prolific terms that you have read! 😀 But who can oppose? Regarding to test new versions of Linux distribution or new distributions, needs to have enough resources and time to download and install. I’m one of these guys, want to test new things! But don’t have enough time for installing, configuring and … . DistroTest.net (Try Popular Linux Distributions Online) What’s DistroTest.net? First of all, I like the line under the banner: “Test it before you hate it”. DistroTest.net provides a way to testing more than 200 Linux distribution via web browser. Here is the welcome message on website: Welcome to DistroTest.net On our website you will find many operating systems,which you can test directly online without a installation. There are no restrictions for the operating system:You can use all functions of the system,Uninstall and install software, test installed programs andeven delete or format the hard disk or system files… There is a simple menu to navigating users to find Linux distributions, any distribution has own web page which server specifications explained with details: Start Testing Distributions Online Click...
Cost of storage is the biggest piece of IT budget in any company (Of course not EMC, HPE or other like them 😀 ) and the storage spaces is eating by databases, other data files and backup files as well. Lot of those data file not be used once generated!. I have serious issue with these types of data and especially log files that one of dark data types. I can’t stop generating those data and the related teams are always crying about free space on their servers. They want just Linux servers (Seems, they don’t know Windows has NFS services as well), because they are using shared space on application servers to storing log files and others via NFS. I have offered other solutions such as using Windows as NFS server and use deduplication on Windows Servers, this feature is really good. I have used Windows deduplication on our backup proxy servers and result was incredible. Anyway, they want to Linux server (Not even other Unix-Like!), so I started to googling these: Don’t panic, most Linux’s modern file systems have no native deduplication and transparent compression and must be enabled with third-party software. Let’s see what is deduplication and...
Let’s be wise, PowerShell is one of most popular and easiest scripting languages for automation. Why!? Because other guys have made PowerShell module for you. EMC Unity command-line tool (UEMCLI) actually is on my nerves. There is a PowerShell module for managing EMC Unity arrays (Physical or VSA) written by ” Erwan Quelin”. You can do most of operations which you need as a storage administrator by that. It’s little bit old but useful. You can find the latest version at the below link: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Unity-Powershell/0.16.1 Here is GitHub project home page: https://github.com/equelin/Unity-Powershell
Oracle Autonomous Linux executes automatic patch updates and tuning without human interaction improving IT staff productivity, security, and downtime.
FreeDOS is an open source DOS-compatible operating system that you can use to play classic DOS games, run legacy business software, or develop embedded systems. Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS. It doesn’t cost anything to download and use FreeDOS. You can also share FreeDOS for others to enjoy! And you can view and edit our source code, because all FreeDOS programs are distributed under the GNU General Public License or a similar open source software license. FreeDOS Software Since 1998, each program included in the FreeDOS distribution is made available as a “package.” The distribution divides these FreeDOS software packages into groups, sometimes called “sets.” The BASE package group contains only those programs that reproduce the functionality of classic DOS systems. The other package groups contain software that you may find useful, such as games, editors, and developer tools. BASE Programs that provide the functionality of classic DOS Archivers Tools to compress files and create archives. Boot tools Utilities to help you boot your computer Development Development tools such as compilers and assemblers Editors Editors and simple word processors that let you edit text files Emulators Programs that emulate other systems Games Fun games that you can...
Stor2rrd is my favorite storage monitoring tool, it’s free and has active community. New version (2.60) with some new features will be announced mid of September. Let’s review new features and enhancements in Stor2rrd 2.60 . What’s New in Stor2rrd 2.60? Stor2rrd 2.60 will support two new storage devices from Lenovo and Hitachi products: Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS) Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series (DE2000/4000/6000) Stor2rrd does support more than 40 storage systems in new version. Enhancements in Stor2rrd 2.60 Stor2rrd 2.60 is including the below enhancements: Storage access management is done through UI only ACL: introduced read-only role, members can see everything but nothing can change Heatmap: enhanced about table visualization IBM SVC/Storwize: support of Zero B2B (%) for 16Gbit adapters (only 8Gbit adapters have been supported till now) IBM XIV: support of host mapping on gen3 hardware EMC VNX: support of cache stats for newer firmwares EMC Unity: support of 4.5.0.0.5.096+ firmwares NetApp: support of ONTAP 9.5P1+ HPE Nimble: support of more than 255 LUNs Huawei OceanStor: implemented compression and deduplication graphing SAN: switches in access gateway mode are grouped into the same fabric called “Access Gateway” If you are using current version or older versions, I recommend that upgrade to Stor2rrd...
