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Here are a few steps to configure iSCSI disks on Linux. Although I set this up on a Redhat Enterprise 5.5 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 […]

Tags: failover, HP, iSCSI, linux, load-balance, LVM, MSA, multipath, redhat, SAN, Storage

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

Tags: backup, fast, linux, lock, logical, LVM, manager, Mysql, snapshot, volume