rhel 6.4 – Ceyhun KIRMIZITAS

17Apr 2019 by Ceyhun Kirmizitas No Comments

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (RHEL 6.4) in VMware Workstation 9.0.2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux-based operating system from Red Hat designed for businesses. RHEL can work on desktops, on servers, in hypervisors or in the cloud. Red Hat Enterprise Linux contains the Linux kernel as well as some applications for performing certain tasks. Like all Linux distributions, RHEL is open source. Thus, people can view its source code, download it and make their own customized versions. Some of the notable Linux distributions that are actually derived from RHEL include CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Scientific Linux. People who subscribe to RHEL can download the installer for free but have to pay for support. Special editions of RHEL are available for academic institutions who are willing to pay a smaller fee to use the relatively more stable RHEL…

15Apr 2019 by Ceyhun Kirmizitas No Comments

How to Install VMware Tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (RHEL 6.4)

Linux, Video Tutorials

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. I find it more often in Linux VMs than Windows. Installing VMware Tools in the guest operating system is vital. Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, you lose important functionality and convenience. Related Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBqGLcxHjZ8&t=44s

13Apr 2019 by Ceyhun Kirmizitas No Comments

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…

10Apr 2019 by Ceyhun Kirmizitas No Comments

Install and Configure DHCP Server on CentOS 6.x – RHEL 6.x

Red Hat - CentOS - Fedora, Video Tutorials

What is DHCP? DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. DHCP is a standardized network protocol used on Internet Protocol networks for dynamically distributing network configuration parameters, such as IP addresses for interfaces and services. DHCP is configured in a server-client model. DHCP server is the one assigning IP Addresses to client computers on the network. Each client is assigned a unique IP Address. DHCP server has a number of IP Addresses available in it’s pool. Steps: 1. Install DHCP yum install dhcp rpm -qc dhcp /etc/dhcp/ - container for DHCPD configuration /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf - IPv4 config /var/lib/dhcpd - container for leases /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases - IPv4 leases 2. Enable DHCPD service chkconfig dhcpd on 3. View dhcpd.conf file cat /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf 4. Copy sample conf file to /etc/ cp /usr/share/doc/dhcp-4.1.1/dhcpd.conf.sample /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf 5. Edit the…

26Mar 2019 by Ceyhun Kirmizitas No Comments

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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