Introduction IBM AIX 7.2 is the latest release of IBM’s enterprise-grade UNIX operating system, running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Known for its reliability, security, and performance in mission-critical environments, AIX 7.2 introduces enhanced virtualization, security hardening, and cloud integration features. This guide covers how to set up ibm cloud powervs instance with aix 7.2 […]
Introduction to System Center Operations Manager System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is Microsoft’s enterprise monitoring platform designed for large-scale Windows environments. It uses management packs — extensible plug-ins — to provide out-of-the-box monitoring intelligence for Windows Server operating systems, SQL Server, IIS, Active Directory, Hyper-V, and hundreds of third-party applications. SCOM uses agents deployed to […]
How to Monitor Windows Server 2012 R2 with Performance Monitor Performance Monitor (PerfMon) is the built-in diagnostic tool in Windows Server 2012 R2 for collecting, analysing, and logging performance data from the operating system, hardware, and applications. It provides real-time graphing of hundreds of performance counters covering CPU, memory, disk, network, and application-specific metrics. When […]
Introduction IBM AIX 7.1 is the latest release of IBM’s enterprise-grade UNIX operating system, running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Known for its reliability, security, and performance in mission-critical environments, AIX 7.1 introduces enhanced virtualization, security hardening, and cloud integration features. This guide covers how to harden ssh on ibm aix 7.1 on IBM AIX […]
How to Configure Windows Server 2016 IPAM Advanced IP Address Management (IPAM) in Windows Server 2016 provides a centralized platform for discovering, monitoring, auditing, and managing the IP address space and DNS and DHCP servers across your network. The advanced features in Windows Server 2016 IPAM include role-based access control (RBAC), integration with System Center […]
How to Set Up a LEMP Stack on RHEL 7 A LEMP stack — Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP — is one of the most common foundations for modern dynamic web applications. On RHEL 7 the individual components are available from a combination of the base repositories, the EPEL community repository, the official MySQL community […]
How to Configure Network Load Balancing (NLB) on Windows Server 2012 R2 Network Load Balancing (NLB) is a Windows Server feature that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers in a cluster, improving application scalability and availability. Unlike Failover Clustering, NLB is designed for stateless workloads — typically web servers, terminal servers, VPN concentrators, and […]
How to Configure Windows Server 2019 RDMA Networking Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) networking allows data to be transferred directly between application memory on different servers, bypassing the CPU and operating system kernel for data movement. This dramatically reduces CPU utilization, latency, and memory bandwidth consumption for high-throughput workloads. Windows Server 2019 supports RDMA through […]
Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up Database Backups with Percona XtraBackup on SLES 15 on SLES 15. SLES 15 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 15 system is up […]
Introduction This tutorial covers How to Install MariaDB on SLES 15 on SLES 15. SLES 15 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Step 1 — Install MariaDB zypper install -y mariadb mariadb-server Step 2 — […]
