Differences Between NFS and iSCSI

NFS and iSCSI provide fundamentally different data sharing semantics. NFS is inherently suitable for data sharing, since it enable files to be shared among multiple client machines. In contrast, a block protocol such as iSCSI supports a single client for each volume on the block server.

How to Sysprep Windows to create deployment WIM image

Deploying Windows on a large number of workstations can become a huge and time consuming task. There are many different methods that administrator can use to automate the installation of large number of Windows workstations.
One of the benefits of using disk duplication is that it makes installing an operating system such as Windows XP on multiple computers more efficient.

How to set up Drupal cron jobs on HOSTGATOR using CPANEL

Every Drupal website requires regular actions to handle maintenance tasks such as cleaning up log files, sending emails to subscribers about new comment or post, checking for updates, etc. Cron.php is the file that Drupal uses to run the maintenance process. For example, if your site name is www.yourdomain.com, loading the URL http://www.yourdomain.com/cron.php in your browser would run that maintenance tasks.

How do I use yum to download a RPM packages without installing them?

You need to install plugin called yum-downloadonly. This plugin adds a --downloadonly flag to yum so that yum will only download the packages and not install/update them. Following options supported by this plugin:

--downloadonly : don't update, just download a rpm file
--downloaddir=/path/to/dir : specifies an alternate directory to store packages such as /tmp

So, please confirm package yum-downloadonly has been installed on the system.

Red Hat has launched OpenSource.com on Drupal

Red Hat has launched OpenSource.com on Drupal. The site will focus on exploring what happens when the open source way is applied to the world, beyond technology. The site has 5 main channels: business, education, government, law, and life. In each channel, they'll explore how open source is having an impact on each of those areas.

Howto use FastCGI to setup PHP 5.x on IIS 7.0 Server

This guide will show all the steps required to set up PHP 5.x on on IIS7 using FastCGI, the same could be used for installing on Windows Vista, WIndows7 or Windows Server 2003/2008. 

CGI programs are executables launched by the web server for each request in order to process the request and generate dynamic responses that are sent back to the client. Because many of these frameworks do not support multi-threaded execution, CGI enables them to execute reliably on IIS by executing exactly one request per process.

Installing VMWARE server on Linux CentOS 5.x - 64 bit version

In this small howto we will explain how to install VMWARE server on CentOS 5 or Red hat enterprise Linux 64 bit version.  To download VMware Server, go to http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ and Download the VMware Server for Linux .tar.gz. Move file to computer on which you will run VMware Server 2.0. I will be building under /usr/src/vmware

Creating WinPE Boot CD/DVD for Imaging or Repair

So, first you have to download the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). WAIK includes Windows Preinstallation Environment, a lightweight version of Windows that can be booted via PXE, DVD/CD-ROM, USB flash drive or external hard disk drive and is used for deployment, troubleshooting or recovery of operating system.