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  • LVM Management in CentOS/Red Hat 7 Linux

    LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is the recommended partition method for CentOS/Red Hat 7 Linux. Specially, if we work on Mail Server, File Server, FTP Server, Web Proxy Server or any application where disk space changes frequently, the LVM partition is mandatory in this case. In my previous article, I discussed how to install CentOS 7.5 with LVM partitioning. If you are new here or CentOS 7 is not yet installed, I will suggest you to follow my previous article and install CentOS 7 with LVM partitioning and then continue this article. In this article, I will discuss how to manage LVM partitioning in CentOS/ Red Hat 7 Linux with the command line utility. Basic Components and Architecture of LVM Before going to start LVM management with command line tool, we should have basic knowledge on the basic LVM terms and architecture. The following three terms are the basic components of the LVM partitioning. Physical Volume: The underlying physical storage unit of an LVM is a block device such as a partition of a disk or the whole disk. To use the block device for an LVM logical volume, the device must be initialized as a physical volume (PV). Volume Groups: [...]

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    MikroTik Blocking All Websites Except a Few Websites |   May 7, 2019

    A few days ago, someone asked me how to block all websites except one with MikroTik Firewall. For this, I have decided to discuss about blocking all websites except someone’s whitelist. Unlike firewall devices, MikroTik Firewall by default allows all websites. So, if you need to block any website, you have to create a firewall rule that will block the specific website. Now if we want to block all websites and want to allow a few websites, we have to [...]

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    Single IP NAT Strategy in MikroTik RouterOS 7 |   September 29, 2015

    MikroTik Router has a lot of features which help to customize network as our requirement. Sometimes, it may be our requirement that we need to allow internet access on per IP. Normally, when we apply masquerade NAT rule in our MikroTik Router, all private IPs will be masqueraded or a network block will be masqueraded. If we do normal masqurade and enable a DHCP Server in our network, we may face a lot of unauthorized access in our network. Because [...]

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    Ubuntu Web Server Configuration with phpMyAdmin (LAMP Stack) |   July 12, 2021

    Ubuntu Server is one of the most popular open source operating systems that can be used in production without any hassle. In my previous article, I discussed how to install Ubuntu Server with LVM partition. I also discussed how to assign static IP address on Ubuntu Server interface with Netplan network management tool. Ubuntu web server is a popular service because web developers usually use Ubuntu Server for their development project. Besides development project, Ubuntu web server can also be [...]

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    MikroTik VPN Configuration with Site-to-Site PPTP |   February 19, 2018

    VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that provides a secure and encrypted tunnel across a public network and using this VPN tunnel a private network user can send and receive data to any remote private network as if his/her network device was directly connected to that private network. MikroTik PPTP is a popular client-server VPN service that provides a secure and encrypted link across public network. MikroTik PPTP can be applied in two methods. Connecting remote workstation/client: In this [...]

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    FreeRADIUS User Profile Configuration for MikroTik Router |   January 10, 2019

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    How to Properly Downgrade MikroTik RouterOS and Firmware |   October 2, 2019

    MikroTik RouterOS is in constant development and new features or bug fixes are frequently available, sometimes even monthly. So, it is always recommend upgrading MikroTik RouterOS to a latest and stable version before beginning any configuration. But sometimes you may face that the upgraded version is not working properly according to your demand or you may upgrade to a new version that you don’t want. In this case, you should come back to your workable RouterOS version and firmware. Upgrading RouterOS [...]

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    MikroTik Radius Configuration with FreeRADIUS and MySQL |   December 18, 2018

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    VMware ESXi 7.0 Installation and Basic Configuration |   December 1, 2020

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