What is NFS?  The Network File System (NFS) is a client/server application that lets a computer user view and optionally store and update files on a remote computer as though they were on the user's own computer. The NFS protocol is one of several distributed file system standards for network-attached storage (NAS).  RedHat, Scientific Linux, CentOS, Fedora   Disable or allow firewall to NFS from clients connecting to NFS volume firewall-cmd --add-service=nfs --permanentfirew...

Instructions are to install DevToolSet for CentOS 7.  Requirements  centos-release-scl - Software Collections ( SCL ) Repositorydevtoolset-7-gcc.x86_64devtoolset-7-gcc-c++.x86_64devtoolset-7-gcc-gdb-plugin.x86_64devtoolset-7-gcc-gfortran.x86_64devtoolset-7-gcc-plugin-devel.x86_64  Installing SCL Repository # yum install centos-release-scl Install the Development Tools  # yum install devtoolset-7-gcc*Note: This installs gcc version 7 as well. How to use the Development Tools&n...

Why Change to Network Manager?  Netplan is a YAML network configuration abstraction for various backends. Using Network Manager has several advantages for easy configuration of network devices. Netplan is easy to understand and strait forward because it uses YAML configuration. Requirements  Installing requirements for using Network Manager with Netplan. network-manager - network management framework (daemon and userspace tools) Installing Requirements  apt install -y network-mana...

Requirements  1. Physical Server2. udisks2 - D-Bus service to access and manipulate storage devices 3. udisks2-lvm2 - LVM2 support for udisks2   Installing udisks2 $ sudo apt install udisks2Note: During the initial setup of storage servers it's a good practice to record drive information. In this article I'll explain how to save storage drive configuration and in the future recover drive/s easily. After installing udisks2 we can type the command below to save the configuration&nbs...