How to Install VMware Tools in CentOS 6.4

How to Install VMware Tools in CentOS 6.4

Linux, Video Tutorials, Workstation
VMware Tools is an optional, free set of drivers and utilities that enhances both the performance of a virtual machine’s guest operating system and interaction between the guest and the host. From time to time I find clients have not installed the VMware tools in their virtual machine’s (VM) operating system. Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, you lose important functionality and convenience. Related Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO7iZbuTYJU
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Installing CentOS 6.4 in VMware Workstation 9.0.2

Installing CentOS 6.4 in VMware Workstation 9.0.2

Linux, Video Tutorials, Workstation
What is CentOS? CentOS, which stands for the Community Enterprise Operating System, is a distribution of the Linux operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is currently the most popular Linux distribution for web servers. CentOS uses the Red Hat source code base to create a product similar to RHEL. Unlike RHEL however, CentOS does not require a paid subscription. In January 2014, Red Hat announced that it would sponsor the CentOS project. As the result of these changes, ownership of CentOS trademarks was transferred to Red Hat. Related Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO7iZbuTYJU
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Managing Partitions in RHEL 6.x – CentOS 6.x

Managing Partitions in RHEL 6.x – CentOS 6.x

Red Hat - CentOS - Fedora
The fdisk command is a text-based utility for viewing and managing hard disk partitions on Linux. It’s one of the most powerful tools you can use to manage partitions, but it’s confusing to new users. Using fdisk you can create a new partition, delete an existing partition, or change existing partition. Using fidsk you are allowed to create a maximum of four primary partition, and any number of logical partitions, based on the size of the disk. This video tutorial will go through the basics of using fdisk to manage a partition table. After using fdisk, we will have see how to use a mkfs command to format new partitions with a file system. Tasks: 1. Identify current storage configuration fdisk -l 2. Provision 1 or more usable partitions parted…
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Managing SWAP Partitions – RHEL 6.x – CentOS 6.x

Managing SWAP Partitions – RHEL 6.x – CentOS 6.x

Red Hat - CentOS - Fedora, Video Tutorials
If the system needs more memory resources and the RAM is full, inactive pages in memory are moved to the swap space. Swap space is a portion of a hard disk drive (HDD) that is used for virtual memory. It can be whole disk partition or just a file inside an existing partition or a combination of swap partitions and swap files. We will see how to manage SWAP Partitions on RHEL 6.x or CentOS 6.x Steps: 1. Show current SWAP allocation free -m swapon -s 2. Create additional SWAP space from new partition Reboot is required at this step 3. Make swap mkswap /dev/sdb2 UUID=8bced662-e967-4861-9bac-6df8957b3eb5 4. Update /etc/fstab UUID=8bced662-e967-4861-9bac-6df8957b3eb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 5. Re-reads /etc/fstab for swap swapon -a 6. Show swap usage summary by device swapon -s free…
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