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How to create new instance from a snapshot and a new OS version

I have a NodeJS instance on Amazon LightSail. I want to upgrade the underlying Operating System to a newer major version, say Ubuntu 18 LTS to Ubuntu 20 LTS. When I create a new instance from the snapshot, I do not get the option of choosing the…
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What's the difference between Red Hat and CentOS?

I cannot find a clear answer to that question. All the answers lead to this: Red Hat providers technical support for their distro while CentOS does not. Also, CentOS lags behind with the updates. Are these the only differences? Is there any…
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Partitioning/RAID approach for a fresh RHEL installation

I just inherited a brand new HPE DL360 Server with 6x600GB and 2x300GB HDD drives in it and 16GB of RAM and i'm planning to install a fresh RHEL distribution. Having not much experience with RAIDS and partitioning, i would like to ask what would be…
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Is it possible to upgrade Oracle Linux 7 to 8 in place?

I noticed in the Oracle Linux 7 documentation, there's a procedure for upgrading the operating system in place for OL6 -> OL7, but I can't seem to find the same instructions for OL7 -> OL8. Is it possible to upgrade in this way? Oracle Instructions…
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How to activate "Log Off" option in Windows Server 2016?

Recently We are using Windows Server 2016, but there is no option "Log off' like in older version of OS, Only there are "Disconnect", "Shutdown" and "Restart" option. I would like to activate Logoff so the resources will be free at…
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registry keys are getting imported under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\WOW6432Node\ on windows server2016

I am trying to import registry keys along with my application installation using powershell. I am using below command to import registry values (which is placed in a file RegFileName) reg import ".\$RegFileName" /reg:32 My expectation is that these…
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How to forbid system to look into /usr/local binaries, libraries and includes?

I'm in a hard time trying to compile things with just dependencies within the system original folders. However, there are different versions of libraries and tools installed in /usr/local. G++ is always including files from /usr/local/include but it…
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Installing operating system from server PC to all the client PC

I am working on the project in which I have decided to install operating system from server PC to all the client PC. I have one windows iso file on the server PC which is shared on the network. This iso file will be first transfered or copied to…
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Solid State Drive for SQL/OS

I'm looking at using SSD to improve DB performance in a large data warehouse. In our instance we know in advance that most of the data is write once, read many - especially as it's reference data. Does anyone have experience of doing this for real?…
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Backup throughput suddenly went down from 1TB per hour to 350GB per hour

Problem: Backup throughput suddenly went down from 1TB+ per hour to 350GB per hour in HPUX server for DB2 database. Backup using Commvault backup software to the media agent via 10G network. Troubleshoot done: Database. I have tried to do native…
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Computer Restart because of Automatic Updates in WSUS

I have configured SCCM and WSUS for Automatic Windows updates, Although updates are required,sometimes it cause different issues in computer system. As example After update on few months ago my LQ 300 printers didn't work, New update had been…
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Reporting units for user and system CPU usage for individual process via collectd

I've been using the collectd:Process Plugin to monitor the per process metrics on a Linux server I'm running. It is just that there are no information about the units for which process use the CPU time. From the embedded link, The statistics…
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What gives better performance single proc - 16 core or dual proc - 8 core each?

What gives better performance single proc - 16 core or dual proc - 8 core each? We are considering going for a sing proc server due to increase in license cost. Edit: We plan to use VMWare vsan, It is costing per proc. We plan to run multiple VMs…
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HP Proliant ML350 G5 Windows Server 2012

We have two types of servers we need to upgrade to Windows Server 2012 64bit HP Proliant DL380 G6 HP Proliant ML350 G5 I think they both have licenses for Windows Server 2008 but they are currently running Windows Server 2003. I have seen on their…
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Can GPUs be dynamically allocated in a 20 GPU server?

The purpose for this server is deep learning algorithms. What I am planning to do is to assemble a server with 20 GPUs (Nvidia GTX 1080 TIs) and 2 CPUs (Intel Xeon Phis) and then have many users draw processing power from it. Relevant to this…
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