Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) or Ansible Tower has become de facto Automation Tool for deploying the Automation projects to automate the System Administration tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, provisioning, orchestration, and continuous delivery. Although AAP and Ansible Tower are designed to run on large scale Infrastructure environment but sometime running complex…
Developers often face issues while writing their codes for Linux and Unix OSs from their Windows laptop. Most problems occurs when developers codes those programs or scripts which use indentation like Python and Ansible as these languages follow strict indentation rules and may create errors with incorrect indentation while running the codes or during lint…
In my previous post I had written on how to convert AWS EC2 On Demand (OD) instance to Reserve Instance (RI) for running dedicated and heavy traffic based website like blog or any ecommerce website which require high configuration, but if your website does not have much traffic or you do not want high compute…
Huge Pages In x86 Architecture, memory pages are like textbook pages where CPU use those pages for reading and writing them in virtual memory for addressing computing requirement. Technically, I can say it is a fixed size block of virtual memory which is defined as pages that has corresponding entry in page table and further…
As a Linux System Admin, we have come across such requirement multiple times for Vertical scaling of Linux VMs in VMware infrastructure. Vertical scaling means adding of additional resources like CPU, memory, Storage to server or VM for increasing its capacity to address more load of Application or DB hosted on Linux VM but what…
Maintaining logs in busy Apache server is a very painful as frequent access of Apache webservice from clients can generate large size of logs example access_log and error_log which can consume the filesystem space but we should not stop generating these logs also as these logs are very helpful in troubleshooting the apache related issues…
In this post I will guide you how to upgrade and manage SAPCONF5 tool and also, how to address High Swapping issue in Suse Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Application 12 (SLES for SAP Application 12) based SAP HANA server with the help of SAPCONF5 tool SAPCONF5 tool is an upgraded version of SAPCONF4 tool….
This issue is known issue with VMware converter 6.2.0 tool after P2V of either RHEL7 or CentOS7 Linux VM unable to boot and start throwing below error message in VM console Reason is P2V conversion put invalid character in grub configuration file along with command “: # (removed by Converter)” in front of grub parameters…
I am working as a Linux Administrator and supporting customer environment which have SAP BW Application and HANA DB services hosted on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 for SAP Application SP3. One day I got a request from my customer SAP application team to tune the OS that is SLES 12 for SAP Application…
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has released on April 23, 2020 (with code name “Focal Fossa”) by succeeding its Ubuntu 19.10 as a Latest Stable Linux OS. As Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has suffix “LTS” that’s means it has Long Term Support for 5 years from Ubuntu. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has come with many features some key features…
