Enterprise Storage is currently broken. IT departments big and small spend way too much money on completely ineffective storage solutions which only partially fulfil the companies storage need. All the while having to justify massive expenditures to the business which do not meet the need. Essentially IT departments everywhere have…
Solaris 11: Join AD Domain for Samba
Configure Kerberos Make a backup of our original, just in case. These sections already exist in the file so you will want to replace them with the correct values for your environment. Quick recycle of the services or a start if they aren’t running. Check Name Resolution Configuration Your domain…
Linux-KVM: Converting Raw Disk Images to LVM Logical Volumes
Linux Logical Volume Manager provides a better method for managing your disks in the home and even more so in the datacenter. I briefly outlined some of the benefits afforded us by LVM2 in a previous article Linux LVM2: Flexible Local Storage Management. In this article I will provide you…
Linux LVM2: Flexible Local Storage Management
Linux LVM provides a different way of looking at storage. On the server side this provides much more flexibility than standard disks with partitions. It allows us to migrate from old to new storage as well as expand the available storage to a particular file system easily (assuming that there…