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Detecting SAN disks in Linux
When you have new LUNs created on the SAN fabric, zoned & mapped it to the server; how can you detect the luns on the linux server online, without rebooting it?. Run the below commands. echo 1 > /sys/class/fc_host/host0/issue_lip echo...
rpm package command tips
If you want to find which rpm contains a specific file in your linux system, you can use "rpm -qf" to get the package information. opensuse:~ # rpm -qf /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-5.49 opensuse:~ # Fi...
Fileop : Filesystem IO benchmarking tool
Iozone Linux filesystem benchmarking tool has another cool utility called "fileop". This utility does file operation on the filesystem and gives the ops/sec for each operation. This tool will be useful to test your filesystem performance as...
OCFS2 cluster – quick setup guide
OCFS2 is a POSIX-compliant shared-disk cluster file system for Linux capable of providing both high performance and high availability. Cluster-aware applications can make use of parallel I/O for higher performance. OCFS2 is mostly used to host ...
Lustre – cluster filesystem : quick setup guide
The Lustre file system is a distributed high performance cluster filesytem that redefines I/O performance and scalability for large and complex computing environments. This is ideally suited for data-intensive applications which requires the high IO ...
Netapp Deduplication – quick setup guide
Deduplication refers to the elimination of redundant data in the storage. In the deduplication process, duplicate data is deleted, leaving only one copy of the data to be stored. However, indexing of all data is still retained should that data ever b...

