Kickstart is a network installation system for RHEL, Fedora and CentOS Linux distributions. Another good option is Cobbler which is a Linux provisioning server that centralizes and simplifies control of services including DHCP, TFTP, and DNS for the purpose of performing network-based operating systems installs. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use kickstart file to install CentOS.
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I‘ve fast RAID-10 disk subsystem with multiple SCSI disks. Apps running under modern Linux kernel don’t write directly to the disk. They write it to the file system cache which is managed by Linux kernel virtual memory manager. Since I’ve high performance RAID controller I need to decrease the number of flushes. How do I tune virtual memory subsystem under Linux operating systems for better performance?
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Ineed to run more than instance of Linux operating system and different Linux distributions under CentOS. How do I use OpenVZ virtualization to optimize the usage of my Dell servers, and create test Linux VPS running Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS Linux? How do I deploy OpenVZ under CentOS / RHEL Linux?
Read RHEL / CentOS OpenVZ Virtualization Tutorial Series:
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How do I setup operating system-level virtualization that allows me to partition my FreeBSD-based server system into several independent mini-systems called jails.? I’d like to set one jail for mail and another for web server via 2 public IP address.
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I‘m not able to ping from FreeBSD prison (jail). I’m able to resolve the names or use ftp / http for ports but ping and traceroute access is disabled. How do I allow virtualized jail application / users to perform traceroute and ping commands?
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Q. I was reading this article and wanted to try out KVM, XEN, VMWare and VirtualBox simultaneously on my desktop system with 2GB RAM? Why I’m not able to use run multiple virtualization technologies simultaneously under Ubuntu Linux? Can a Linux server run multiple virtualization technologies simultaneously?
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Q. How do I configure Nginx Web server for virtual hosting (host multiple websites under same IP address – name based virtual hosting)?
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