One tool you can use to monitor the performance of storage devices is iostat. In this article, we talk a bit about iostat, introduce a Python script that takes iostat data and creates an HTML report with charts, and look at a simple example of using iostat to examine storage device behavior while running IOzone.
The load average is one of the most iconic system status metrics of the Unix world. It is readily available on any Unix-inspired system and is so pervasive that a multitude of tools provide it – too many to cover here. Yet, it remains a recurring source of user questions. This month, almost as a public service announcement, I will dig head first into the subject.
Law of Averages--Load Averaging
With the seemingly unlimited number of Linux packages available today in repositories, sometimes it’s easy to get lost and miss out on the really high quality packages – those that offer the most impressive functionality.
Netcat
Users of Windows Server 2012 will benefit from numerous innovations, especially in the areas of virtualization, high availability, and storage. In this article, we show you some tricks that make handling the new system much easier.
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