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Here are a few steps to configure iSCSI disks on Linux. Although I set this up on a Redhat Enterprise connected to an HP MSA 2012i, the whole configuration remains generic and can be applied to any SAN.I will add another post to check how both Linux and Windows perform on the same iSCSI device, […]

Tags: iSCSI, linux, LVM, multipath, redhat, SAN, Storage

It is generally good practice to respect the two following rules when backing up databases. The backup has to be: consistent fast Consistency is easily achieved putting a read lock on all tables beforehand. However, this isn’t always applied, and WILL definitely lead to a database integrity problem when restoring.Once a lock has been set […]

Tags: backup, linux, LVM, Mysql