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How to extend or increase LVM in linux

Fabio Milano — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:28:15 +0000

How do I increase the capacity of my LVM partitions in linux if I add another disk or raid array You need to add the new physical volume, extend the volume groups, increase the logical volume and resize the file system Create the Partition with id LVM Linux sd(x) where x is the new disk a,b,c,d [continue...]

Check LSI Raid status in Centos

Fabio Milano — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:46:18 +0000

How do I check LSI MegaRAID controller and raid array status on a linux server Use the LSI MegaRAID megarc command line cli tool Download the megarc tool Download the megarc.bin utility which can be downloaded from LSI website at http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/MegaRAID Common [continue...]

VirtualBox Auto Start VM Centos Fedora RedHat

Fabio Milano — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:45:33 +0000

Scenario / Question: How do I get my VirtualBox Guest VM’s to start and stop when the host system reboots, shutdown, or starts. Solution / Answer: Create an init.d script so that VirtualBox Guest VM are controlled as a system service. Install VirtualBox VM Service script The original script [continue...]

Fedora 11 external network and internal network

Fabio Milano — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:05:19 +0000

Scenario / Question: I have a computer connected to external network with one network card and connected to internal network with another network card. I want to have all external traffic use one nic and all internal traffic use another nic. Solution / Answer: If you do not require NAT or [continue...]

VirtualBox Modify VM Settings

Fabio Milano — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:16:00 +0000

Scenario / Question: How do I modify the parameters of my VM in VirtualBox from the command line Solution / Answer: Use the tool VBoxManage Install VirtualBox “Install VirtualBox without GUI or Headless” Create a VirtualBox VM guest “VirtualBox Headless VM” VirtualBox [continue...]

VirtualBox Controlling Headless VM

Fabio Milano — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:30:12 +0000

Scenario / Question: How do I control my VirtualBox VM’s from the command line Solution / Answer: Use the tool VBoxManage Install VirtualBox “Install VirtualBox without GUI or Headless” Create a VirtualBox VM guest “VirtualBox Headless VM” Controlling the VirtualBox [continue...]

VirtualBox Headless VM

Fabio Milano — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:46:18 +0000

Scenario / Question: How do I control VirtualBox from the linux command line CLI Solution / Answer: Use the included tools VBoxManage and VBoxHeadless First Install VirtualBox from this post: “Install VirtualBox without GUI or Headless” VBoxManage for controlling VirtualBox on the [continue...]

Install VirtualBox without GUI or Headless

Fabio Milano — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:41:16 +0000

Scenario / Question: How do I install VirtualBox on a linux server that does not have a GUI installed or Xorg. Solution / Answer: VirtualBox can be installed on a headless server, and can be controlled with VBoxManage and VBoxHeadless from the command line. Install VirtualBox 3.0 There are two [continue...]

Lighttpd and PHP

Fabio Milano — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:58:05 +0000

How do I get Lighttpd to work with PHP Instal Lighttpd web server Follow the following tutorial: “Lighttpd and Centos 5” Add PHP support to Lighttpd web server Install lighttpd-fastcgi and php-cli # yum install lighttpd-fastcgi php-cli Configure the Config files to enable PHP for [continue...]

Lighttpd and Centos 5

Fabio Milano — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:24:07 +0000

What is Lighttpd “Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility — all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other [continue...]