Storage

How do I shrink physical volume in Linux? In this tutorial, you will learn how to reduce or shrink Physical Volume in Linux. In a Linux system, a hard drive, or a partition or a group of them can be allocated a Physical Volume for storing data. Sometimes, you may assign a system more disk space than is required....

This is a simple tutorial about an easy way to extend KVM virtual machine disk size. Disk usage in a VM is among the limited resources which sometimes require to be increased/reduced. It is possible to resize the disk in KVM using QEMU. Easy Way to Extend KVM Virtual Machine Disk Size In this guide, we will use the qcow2 disk...

Follow through this post to learn how to install and setup Ceph Storage cluster on Ubuntu 22.04. Ceph is a scalable distributed storage system designed for cloud infrastructure and web-scale object storage. It can also be used to provide Ceph Block Storage as well as Ceph File System storage. As of this writing, CEPH Quincy is the current stable release. Install and Setup Ceph Storage...

Follow through this tutorial to learn how to setup replicated GlusterFS volume on Ubuntu. There are different types of Volume architectures that you may want to consider. These include; Distributed GlusterFS VolumeReplicated GlusterFS VolumeDistributed Replicated GlusterFS VolumeStriped GlusterFS VolumeDistributed Striped GlusterFS Volume Setup Replicated GlusterFS Volume on Ubuntu Replicated GlusterFS volume provides reliability and data redundancy and cushion against data loss in case one...

Welcome to our guide on how to install and setup GlusterFS on Ubuntu 22.04/Ubuntu 20.04. Well, so what is GlusterFS? GlusterFS is an opensource distributed and scalable network file system that clusters various disk storage resources into a single global namespace. GlusterFS is suitable for data-intensive tasks such as cloud storage and media streaming. Install and Setup GlusterFS on Ubuntu...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to easily install and configure Samba file server on Ubuntu 22.04. Samba is an opensource suite that implements the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. Microsoft Windows operating systems and the OS/2 operating system use SMB to perform client-server networking for file and printer sharing and associated operations. Running on a Unix system,...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and setup rsyslog server on Ubuntu 22.04. Rsyslog is a multi-threaded implementation of syslogd (a system utility providing support for message logging), with features that include: reliable syslog over TCP, SSL/TLS and RELPon-demand disk bufferingemail alertingwriting to MySQL or PostgreSQL databases (via separate output plugins)permitted sender listsfiltering on any part of the syslog...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Couchbase Server on Ubuntu 22.04/Ubuntu 20.04. According to the documentation, Couchbase Server is an open source, distributed, JSON document database. It exposes a scale-out, key-value store with managed cache for sub-millisecond data operations, purpose-built indexers for efficient queries, and a powerful query engine for executing SQL-like queries. Install Couchbase Server on...

Follow through this post to learn how to install and setup Ceph Storage cluster on Ubuntu 20.04. Ceph is a scalable distributed storage system designed for cloud infrastructure and web-scale object storage. It can also be used to provide Ceph Block Storage as well as Ceph File System storage. As of this writing, CEPH Pacific is the current stable release. Install and Setup Ceph Storage...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install ownCloud server on Ubuntu 22.04. ownCloud is a collaboration tool that allows you to easily and securely share files and folders with others. Install ownCloud Server on Ubuntu 22.04 ownCloud is available in different additions as highlighted on their pricing pages. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install open source version...