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…
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…
Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a feature available in mostly Linux distributions or distro which optimizes large memory of the systems as now days systems (computer systems) are coming with large memory. THP can enhance system performance by mapping memory with large physical pages this can be useful in case system is computing multiple processes,…
Corruption of initramfs can be occur by many ways for example after patching CentOS 7 Linux OS or installing a buggy device driver in server you found CentOS 7 Linux server has become unbootable. You may also encouter below kernel panic error because server initramfs got damaged . CentOS 7 Linux Kernel Panic screen Now…
Linux is known for one of most secure Unix Operating System (OS) in world. But that is not mean it is 100% secure there is say in Information Technology (IT) no technology is a completely secure that is why from a System Administrator to CIO they take measure for securing IT infrastructure on regular basis…
Microsoft has added Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) from Microsoft Windows 10 version 1607 onward and Windows Server 2019 it has replaced the older Windows Services for Unix it is like WINE in Linux which provide compatible layer for running Windows based application on Linux likewise WSL provide a subsystem or layer on which different Linux distro…
Red Hat has launched the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) for users and developers for testing purpose and getting feedback from them. Red Hat Inc. which is developing RHEL 8 has announced this operating system beta version for public use on November 14, 2018. Four year ago when Red Hat…
You were running a program installed in your Linux/Unix system and suddenly that program get stop and it log error in its logs memory segmentation fault error or you might executing a command in Linux / Unix server say you are working on LVM extension or VG scanning but you are unable to do so…
Whenever you apply an install/update/remove any package or packages Ubuntu log the changes happened to packages in its default file /var/log/dpkg.log. If you do listing to /var/log/ path (below is the command) you may find numbers of uncompressed and compressed dpkg.log files it depends on what type of log rotate policy is configure in file…
