So I am not going to lie, I am a very sick man, and I am not afraid to admit it. I have a terrible, terrible addiction which is my homelab. It all started out so innocently... An old Sun Ultra 5 to learn Sparc Solaris at home.. A couple of desktops converted over to rack mount cases and racked in a cheap telecom rack in my unfinished basement. This was very early in my career when I had a lot to learn and plenty of free time to study. However that was many moons ago.
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RHEL6 – Quick and Dirty NFS How To
So if you are reading this you many not be aware of the fact that I already put up a post on NFS on RHEL6 (you can find it here). However that post is basically just a redirect to another blog post that I ran into on the subject. And despite the fact that its very well written, and has no apparent spelling mistakes, or inapropriate comments about NFS, I felt the need to draft my own post. At this point I really cannot seem to remember anything technical if I don't put up a blog post on the subject. After all I have been doing so for over 4 years, so why stop now.
How to Create A Dedicated Storage NIC in XenServer
In Vmware ESX, when using NFS storage, you are required to create a separate and additional vmkernel portgroup to access your NFS storage. This way ESX Management traffic travels over one port group and NFS traffic travels over another.
In Xenserver the concept is similar; however executed much differently.
RHEL6 – Network Mounting User Home Directories
First off, in order to mount a users home directory automatically upon login you need to make sure that you have autofs installed and configured to start at boot.
Note that for this example lets assume that our home directories are shared via nfs on the server, nfsserver.example.com, on the exported volume /nfs/home/
RHEL6 – How To Configure an NFS Server
Do you know whats almost as delicious as a tasty waffle with pure AAA Vermont maple syrup smothered all over it. Neither do I. However I did run across a very well written blog post on how to configure an NFS server on RHEL6. Wierd, is it a NFS server or an NFS server, the … Continue reading RHEL6 – How To Configure an NFS Server