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Changing the Oracle VM Dom0 Memory Size

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The Oracle VM Agent password is used by Oracle VM Manager when you discover an Oracle VM Server.

Troubleshooting Solaris memory usage

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With Solaris 9 and later, comes an extremly nice mdb command for checking how much memory is used in kernel, and how much is used in user space.

Changing Oracle Enterprise Linux hostname

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Either due to cloning or corporate naming standards, you may find the need to change the hostname of an Oracle Enterprise Linux System.

Solaris NFS

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NFS is a protocol which allows file systems on one system to be made available on a remote system. NFS works on a server-client model.

EMC NetWorker Modules go End-of-Life

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Several legacy EMC NetWorker application modules go End-of-Sale on June 30, 2011 and will no longer be available for purchase.

Verifying the blocksize of an NTFS volume

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This simple post provides details on how to verify the block size of an NFS volume, using the fsutil command.

How to Restart or Shutdown a remote Windows Server

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When you attempt to restart a remote server remember that the default ComputerName is the local machine, therefore you need to append -m ComputerName.

Special file permissons (setuid, setgid and sticky bit)

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setuid and setgid are unix access rights flags that allow users to run an executable with permissions of the executables owner and group respectively