Why do we need Configuration Management tool? Anyone who works as an operations engineer has witnessed a bunch of issues with manual configuration approach and more repetitive tasks which are time-consuming. How many times key resources left the company and new engineer struggle to understand the environment and start performing the tasks without escalation? Server configuration is a […]
Docker Basic Operations – Images and Containers
This article will help you to understand the basic operations of dockers images and containers. Images and containers are two basic components of Docker’s architecture. A container is launched using an image. An image is a fully packed stack which has everything that needed by an application i.e runtime libraries, environment variable, and configuration files. […]
How to Install docker on Redhat Linux (RHEL)- CentOS ?
How to install docker on Redhat Linux (RHEL) and CentOS? How to setup the docker environment to start the first container to start exploring the container world? In this article, we are going to demonstrate the docker community edition deployment on RHEL/CentOS. We will also launch the Docker containers to test the deployment. Docker […]
What is Docker ? How its different from Virtual Machine ?
What is Docker? Docker is a container run time engine. Docker provides the power of operating system using minimal resources. Docker support application development in monolithic situations. In other words, developers can develop the applications, ship the container and deploy it anywhere. The destination could be a virtual machine, physical server or cloud instances (AWS, […]
VxVM – Disk group has no valid configuration copies
Veritas volume manager is robust volume manager software and mostly used on Oracle Solaris, HP-UX and Linux Operating systems. In some cases, after the host reboot, you might get an error that “Disk group has no valid configuration copies” when you try to import the existing Veritas disk group. This error common in SRDF environment […]
Self Managing Kubernetes – Turbonomic 6.1
I have been worked on Unix and then move to Linux, then virtualized Linux Environment using VMware vSphere and now overseeing the journey to cloud-native. Technology just keeps changing and we need to adopt new technologies, make it more efficient and more profitable to the customer. Service-based IT firms and vendors are forced to evolving and innovating to stay […]
RHEL7/CentOS 7 – Recover/Reinstall GRUB2 with UEFI
This article will provide the step by step procedure to recover the GRUB RHEL7 / CentOS7 which uses UEFI. In last article, we have demonstrated the BIOS-based system’s GRUB recovery. The newer system ships with UEFI firmware and here is the way to identify BIOS vs UEFI on Linux servers. To recover GRUB2 on RHEL7 /CentOS 7 with […]
How to Recover GRUB on RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 ?
This article will provide the step by step procedure to recover the GRUB on REHL 7 / CentOS 7. GRUB corruption / lost is one of the most common issues on Linux servers/workstations. The possible reasons for grub corruption could be due to bad disk/bug on the firmware or powered off the system abruptly. Systems ships […]
How to find Linux is under BIOS or UEFI mode ?
How would you find your Linux server booted in BIOS mode or UEFI mode? What’s the main difference between BIOS and UEFI? Servers which had shipped prior to the 2011 year have only BIOS firmware installed by default. BIOS is legacy firmware used only on X86 hardware and its 16-bit code. BIOS will take more time for […]
Safeguard VM Backup in Cloud Using – NAKIVO
Small organizations can’t afford multiple data-centers to operate. Due to the cloud revolution, small companies are operating their production servers in the cloud directly but the various factor, companies might still prefer on-premise infrastructure. In such cases, keeping the backup in the same site a not a safe. NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides a great […]