Step-by-Step Guide Part 6: How to build your own NetApp ONTAP 9 LAB – NFSv4 Pitfalls
When you switch from NFSv3 to NFSv4, things definitely change under the hood, and suddenly your permissions or ownership mappings…
Step-by-Step Guide Part 5: How to build your own NetApp ONTAP 9 LAB – Root Squashing
If you’ve ever tried as root to chown, chmod, or just create a file on an NFS-mounted share and were…
Cheat Sheet – User Management Commands in Linux
In the world of Linux and Unix-based systems, user roles and permissions are the foundation of security and system integrity. In this post…
Mastering GCP Virtual Machines – Part 2
In Part 1 we saw how to create a new virtual machine instance (Linux Ubuntu), checking if the google guest…
Mastering GCP Virtual Machines – Part 1
Even with all the fancy managed services, plain old virtual machines are still the backbone of a lot of real-world…
Set up a Central Log Server with syslog-ng daemon on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Centralized logging is essential for monitoring, troubleshooting, and securing enterprise systems. On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), the syslog-ng daemon…
resize2fs Superblock Checksum Error – What It Means and How to Fix It
After extending a logical volume (e.g., using LVM), it’s common to resize the filesystem to make use of the newly…
How to install Azure CLI on Linux
To install Azure CLI on SUSE/OpenSUSE, choose one of the following methods: For other distributions you will find in the…
How to install Azure PowerShell on Linux
To install Azure PowerShell on Linux we first need install PowerShell Core (PowerShell 7 or later) and then install the…
Mastering NFS Protocol Versions and analyze required Traffic
When firewalls are in place between NFS clients and servers, it can be complex when providing NFS version 3 and…