Networking

How to Configure Network Bonding on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Network Bonding on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure Network Bonding on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (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 12 system is up to date: zypper refresh […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 DCB — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 DCB

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 DCB Data Center Bridging (DCB) is a suite of IEEE standards that enhance standard Ethernet to provide the reliability and traffic management required by converged data center networks. DCB enables multiple traffic types — including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI, RDMA (RoCE), and standard Ethernet — to coexist […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 SR-IOV — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 SR-IOV

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 SR-IOV Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a PCI-SIG specification that allows a single physical PCIe network adapter to present multiple virtual functions (VFs) directly to virtual machines, bypassing the Hyper-V virtual switch and the software network stack. This provides near-native network performance in VMs with ultra-low latency […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 RDMA Networking — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 RDMA Networking

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 […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 SMB over QUIC — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 SMB over QUIC

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 SMB over QUIC SMB over QUIC is a feature introduced in Windows Server 2022 that allows SMB 3 file sharing over the QUIC transport protocol (UDP port 443) instead of TCP port 445. While Windows Server 2019 itself does not support the SMB over QUIC server role, Windows […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 SMB Direct — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 SMB Direct

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 SMB Direct SMB Direct is an enhancement to the SMB 3 protocol that enables direct memory access transfers between servers using RDMA-capable network adapters. When available, SMB Direct allows data to be transferred between server memory over the network without involving the CPU for data movement, dramatically reducing CPU […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Network File System — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Network File System

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Network File System Network File System (NFS) on Windows Server 2019 enables interoperability between Windows and Unix/Linux systems by providing NFS server and client roles. The Server for NFS role allows Windows Server 2019 to export shared directories that Linux, macOS, and other Unix-based systems can mount natively. […]

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How to Automate SLES 15 Deployment with AutoYaST — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Automate SLES 15 Deployment with AutoYaST

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Automate SLES 15 Deployment with AutoYaST 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 — Launch YaST yast Step 2 — Use YaST from […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Storage Replica — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Storage Replica

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Storage Replica Storage Replica is a Windows Server feature that enables synchronous or asynchronous block-level replication between servers or clusters for disaster recovery and high availability. Available in both Windows Server 2019 Standard (limited to 2TB per volume) and Datacenter editions, Storage Replica replicates at the volume level, […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 with Grafana — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 with Grafana

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 with Grafana Grafana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform that, when combined with a time-series data source, provides powerful dashboards for Windows Server 2019 monitoring. The typical architecture uses Windows Exporter (formerly wmi_exporter) to expose Prometheus-compatible metrics from Windows Server 2019, a Prometheus server to scrape and […]

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