Avinash C. Pillai

1. Introduction The Network File System is certainly one of the most widely used network services. Network file system (NFS) is based on the  Remote procedure call  which allows the client to automatically mount remote file systems and therefore transparently provide an access to it as if the file system is local. If you still have some questions after reading this article please try our new  LinuxCareer Forum . 2. Scenario In this scenario we are going to export the file system from the an IP address 10.1.1.50 ( NFS server ) host and mount it on an a host with an IP address 10.1.1.55 ( NFS Client ). Both NFS server and NFS client will be running Ubuntu Linux. 3. Prerequisites At this point, we assume that the NFS service daemon is already installed on your system, including portmap daemon on which NFS setup depends. If you have not done so yet simply install nfs-common package on both NFS client and NFS server using using apt-get tool. # yum install nfs-common The c

                                      "Turbulent Weather" - My letter on Vijay Mallaya that was published in "The Week" Magazine (18-Dec-2011) Edition.

Failover Clustering for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services SQL Server Technical Article Writers: Allan Hirt (Avanade, Inc.) and Dave Whitney (Microsoft) Project Editors: Louis Berner (Microsoft), Tresy Kilbourne (Microsoft) Applies To: SQL Server 2005 Version 1.0 Summary: This white paper is intended mainly for a technical audience and not technical decision makers. It complements the existing documentation around planning, implementing, and administering of a failover cluster that can be found in Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Books Online. To ease the upgrade process for existing users of failover clustering, this white paper will also point out differences in the failover clustering implementation of SQL Server 2005 compared to that of SQL Server 2000. Copyright The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Because Mic