Recently to ease deployment of VTL resources in lab environments I built a pre-configured VM containing the mhVTL and the WebUI (GUI) with iSCSI support. I figured I could share that VM here for the community. The resulting OVA file has been tested successfully with VMware Fusion, Workstation, and Oracle Virtual Box. The VM is based on CentOS… Read More »
Following on the steps outlined in mhVTL on CentOS to install the mhVTL, this guide adds the web based mhVTL-GUI into the mix. Note for the example below I am using a CentOS 6.7 minimal installation as CentOS or RHEL 7.x iSCSI has changed significantly enough not to work with the GUI. Original developement by Nia on the… Read More »
Helpful command equivalents between UNIX/Linux and Windows/DOS. UNIX or Bash Command DOS Command Action ls -l (or use ls -lF)(-a all files) DIR List directory contents df -k (Space remaining on filesystem) ls -tr DIR *.* /o-d List directory contents by reverse time of modification/creation. ls -ls DIR *.* /v /os List files and size ls -R DIR… Read More »
I am not going to say these are the best or “must have” Linux distributions but they are some of my favorites and what I use. elementary OS https://elementary.io/ Dare I say the sexiest distro available, based off of Ubuntu it has a very OS X feel with simple clean applications and not a lot of bloat out… Read More »
The most common web platform out there is Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP or LAMP for short. Below is my quick guide for setting up LAMP on CentOS 7 (or RHEL 7). LAMP Installation For this configuration CentOS was installed with minimal packages (no GUI) and all commands are run with root privileges. Package Install Core components of… Read More »
I have been working with HTML and web design and development on and off over the last 15 years, some serious projects and others not so much. Starting with WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors such as Netscape Composer, FrontPage, I quickly became frustrated with the formatting of the code and especially in the early… Read More »
I frequently use tape devices, libraries and drives, in my daily course of work. Unfortunately it isn’t possible to have every type of device in a lab or in many cases any physical devices available for testing, etc. When it comes to VTLs (Virtual Tape Libraries) there are a handful of vendors and options ranging from thousands of… Read More »