Linux Tutorials on the topic “storage”

• How to Deploy a MongoDB Sharded Cluster on CentOS 7

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: centos, linux, server, storage • Comments: 7

  This tutorial shows you how to install a MongoDB Sharded Cluster on CentOS 7. Sharding is a MongoDB process to store data-set across different machines. It allows you to perform a horizontal scale of data and to partition all data across independent instances.

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• How to install and setup Plex Media Server Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: linux, server, storage, ubuntu • Comments: 11

  Plex is a free feature-rich media library platform that provides a way to store all your movies, shows, and other media in one place. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configure Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 16.04.

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• Samba Standalone Server Installation on Debian 9 (Stretch)

  Author: Till Brehm • Tags: debian, samba, storage • Comments: 6

  This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Debian 9 and shows you how to configure Samba to share files over the SMB/CIFS the protocol. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory, all users have a shared group directory with read-/write access and optionally an anonymous share is added.

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• How to install a Ceph Storage Cluster on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: linux, server, storage, ubuntu • Comments: 18

  In this tutorial, I will guide you to install and build a Ceph cluster on Ubuntu 16.04 server. Ceph is an open source storage platform, it provides high performance, reliability, and scalability. It's a free distributed storage system that provides an interface for object, block, and file-level storage and can operate without a single point of failure.

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• Monitoring of a Ceph Cluster with Ceph-dash on CentOS 7

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: centos, linux, storage • Comments: 5

  Ceph-dash is is a WSGI application based on the Flask framework for monitoring of Ceph clusters. In this tutorial, I will show you to install Ceph-dash and configure it to run under an apache web server with SSL and mod_auth support.

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• How to Mount CephFS on CentOS 7

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: centos, linux, server, storage • Comments: 1

  I will show you how to mount Ceph as a File System on CentOS 7 in this third part of the Ceph tutorial series. Ceph is an open source storage platform, it offers high performance, reliability, and scalability. It's a free distributed storage system that provides an interface to object, block, and file-level storage without a single point of failure.

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• Using Ceph as Block Device on CentOS 7

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: centos, linux, server, storage • Comments: 5

  Ceph is an open source storage platform, it provides high performance, reliability, and scalability. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step to install and configure a Ceph Block Device client to use Ceph as a filesystem on CentOS 7.

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• Expanding a software RAID on Debian by migrationg to new large hard disks

  Author: Bellucci Stefano • Tags: debian, desktop, linux, shell, storage • Comments: 1

  This tutorial shows you the steps to replace two old hard disks with new (larger) ones when using a software RAID on Debian.

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• How to build a Ceph Distributed Storage Cluster on CentOS 7

  Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: centos, linux, server, storage • Comments: 24

  Ceph is a widely used open source storage platform. It provides high performance, reliability, and scalability. The Ceph free distributed storage system provides an interface for object, block, and file-level storage. Ceph is build to provide a distributed storage system without a single point of failure. In this tutorial, I will guide you to install and build a Ceph cluster on CentOS 7.

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• How to install WebDAV with Lighttpd on Debian 8 (Jessie)

  Author: Till Brehm • Tags: debian, lighttpd, storage, web server • Comments: 2

  This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Lighttpd on a Debian 8 (Jessie) server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allows users to directly edit files on theLighttpdd server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

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