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openSUSE Quick Reference Guide

17 May 2015 2 min(s) 0 sec(s) 877 visits.

This article provides a quick reference guide for the open SuSE operating system

Hard drive sanitisation - A homebrew approach

22 Sep 2016 7 min(s) 13 sec(s) 3864 visits.

The most efficient means of sanitising computers and/or a storage media device is to overwrite the entire device with zeroes or with a random pattern.

Solaris vs RHEL - Package Management differences

20 Apr 2015 47 sec(s) 2418 visits.

This article provides a quick comparison between the pkg command of Solaris 11 and the yum command under RHEL

CloudBoost Disaster Recovery

20 Apr 2015 6 min(s) 15 sec(s) 3348 visits.

If the CloudBoost appliance encounters a failure you must deploy a second CloudBoost appliance to restore the metadata from backups in the cloud.

Using NetWorker to Restore from the Cloud

19 Apr 2015 1 min 53 sec(s) 2662 visits.

Using the NetWorker recovery wizard you can restore files from the cloud.

Configuring a CloudBoost Share

19 Apr 2015 1 min 18 sec(s) 2746 visits.

You must configure the shared data store immediately after you have deloyed the CloudBoost virtual appliance.

Verifying CloudBoost is receiving clones from NetWorker

19 Apr 2015 31 sec(s) 2832 visits.

Verify that CloudBoost is receiving clones from NetWorker.

Connecting NetWorker to CloudBoost

19 Apr 2015 42 sec(s) 2565 visits.

Connect NetWorker to CloudBoost to send a NetWorker backup clone to CloudBoost.

Deploying the CloudBoost virtual appliance

19 Apr 2015 3 min(s) 11 sec(s) 3305 visits.

After you configure the CloudBoost virtual app via vSphere cli you can login the CloudBoost management console to configure its deployment settings.

Upgrading the CloudBoost virtual appliance

19 Apr 2015 1 min 46 sec(s) 2573 visits.

On the Support page, you can see what version of CloudBoost is currently running, and you can upgrade the CloudBoost virtual appliance.