Building and Installing the latest kernel on CentOS 7
The linux kernel is a constantly developing piece of software; new features and drivers are being added all the time. Fortunately for administrators, the system call API is very stable, so using a...
View Articleopenvswitch GRE over IPv6 on CentOS 7
At my day job, I help maintain a series of network checks that need to run in parallel. Currently, we use one small VM to run each process. At first, this was a fine arrangement, as there were only a...
View ArticleCentOS 6 Google App Engine Python Development with Eclipse
With more and more companies moving applications to the cloud, Google App Engine makes a lot of sense. GAE is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) product offered which runs on Google’s infrastructure....
View ArticleJoin CentOS 6 to Active Directory Domain
Joining CentOS 6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to an Active Directory Domain is relatively simple. While Active Directory is proprietary software developed by Microsoft, it’s fairly ubiquitous in...
View ArticleHow to RDP from CentOS 6 using Network Level Auth
Connecting from CentOS 6 to Windows Server 2008 R2 used to be impossible if you had Network Level Authentication required on your Windows Servers. However, the latest version of rdesktop (1.8 as of...
View ArticleCentos 6 Apache Kerberos AD SSO
I recently setup a RHEL / Centos 6 Apache websever at work that integrates with Active Directory (AD) and Kerberos for a single sign on (SSO) web resource. This took me a lot more time than I thought...
View ArticleInstall vSphere CLI in CentOS 6
I recently installed VMware’s vSphere CLI 5.1 tools on a CentOS 6 x86_64 VM. Despite the rather reassuring documentation released by VMware, installing these tools was no simple task. I will outline...
View ArticleGlusterFS Tips and Tricks CentOS
I’ve been playing around with the latest stable release of GlusterFS, currently 3.3.1, for the last couple of weeks. GlusterFS is a scale-out cluster storage system that is extremely easy to setup and...
View ArticleKVM and GlusterFS 3.3.1 performance on CentOS 6
Currently I am testing the usability and performance of GlusterFS as a suitable virtual image store for the KVM hypervisor on Centos 6. Setup: Hypervisor: Centos 6 x64, AMD Phenom II 1090T, 16G RAM...
View ArticleConfiguring CentOS 6 Web Server
In this article, I’m going to be outlining the steps to install and configure a complete web server on a base install of CentOS 6. (Which should be compatible with Scientific Linux 6 as well as Red...
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