linux

Installing mini cluster kubernetes

Ready to set up a Kubernetes cluster on Ubuntu using VMware? This blog post is your straightforward guide to getting started. Whether you’re a developer, an IT professional, or just keen on tech, we’ll guide you through every step. From…

How to get best performance with NICs on Intel platforms

Source: This document is a step-by-step guide for getting high performance from DPDK applications on Intel platforms. 7.1. Hardware and Memory Requirements For best performance use an Intel Xeon class server system such as Ivy Bridge, Haswell or newer.…

Open vSwitch* with DPDK Overview

This article presents a high-level overview of Open vSwitch* with the Data Plane Development Kit (OvS-DPDK)—the high performance, open source virtual switch—and links to further technical articles that dive deeper into individual OvS-DPDK features. This article was written for users…

LACP bonding and Linux configuration

Source: This blog introduces Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) bonding and provides step-by-step configuration of LACP bonding on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS operating systems versions 6 and 7. Introduction Network bonding enables the combination of two or…

HW and OS time not aligned

run as root: # date;hwclock compare with date output if not aligned – verify timezone settings # hwclock –systohc NOTE: Before changing the hardware time, it is recommended that you run date to check whether the system time zone is…

E-mail from server command line

The Linux command line can be very powerful once you know how to use it. You can parse data, monitor processes, automate backups and do a lot of other useful and cool things using it. There often comes a need…

Linux HW Info

1. lscpu The lscpu command reports information about the cpu and processing units. It does not have any further options or functionality. $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3…

RAID 5 vs. RAID 6

There is a performance impact when you use RAID-6 (you update two parity drives instead of just one), but RAID-6 is recommended by Red Hat since drive current drive capacities increases the probability that a double fault will occur while…

Enable ETH0 on VMWare Cent OS and install VMWare tools

#dhclient eth0 -v create the file and we place this text in it: [vmware-tools] name=VMware Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever – $basearch baseurl= enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey= If we installed previously VMware tools via the local…