Dell EMC VxRail

A new version of the Dell EMC VxRail™ Appliance, a jointly Dell EMC and VMware developed Hyper-Converged Appliance, was announced this week at Dell EMC World. I’ve had to opportunity …

FSMO in Active Directory ! 5 Roles

Since Windows Server 2000, Microsoft has integrated the notion of FSMO role within an Active Directory environment. There are five different FSMO roles, each with a specific purpose. For your …

Logical volume manager (LVM)

What is LVM ? Logical volume manager (LVM) introduces an extra layer between the physical disks and the file system allowing file systems to be resized and moved easily and …

Linux RAID Software : Set Up RAID 1

In this tutorial, we’ll be talking about RAID, specifically we will set up software RAID 1 on a running Linux distribution. What is RAID? RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. RAID allows you to turn …

HA and Virtual Volumes

Let us start with first describing what Virtual Volumes is and what value it brings for an administrator. Virtual Volumes was developed to make your life (vSphere admin) and that …