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Tiago Stoco

Tiago Stoco

I.T and technology enthusiast with a creative mind working in a data centre and dedicating his free time to fun tech-related personal projects and family.

Linux - SSH Key Authentication

One of the most secure ways to connect to a system is with SSH key authentication that, combined with good firewall rules it can prevent all sorts of attacks. Step 01 - Creating the Keys Let's generate a key pair with the command below : ssh-keygen -b 4096 -t

megacli - Delete Virtual Disk

The command to delete a virtual disk is simple, but we should be careful with its usage. If the wrong parameter is passed you can end up deleting the wrong virtual disk and end up losing your data. The command to delete the VD is the below : root@hv2:~/storage/

UK International Keyboard

As a native Portuguese speaker sometimes I write in Portuguese and is extremely frustrating to write words without the proper accentuation. The link below has a handy international scheme for various other languages rather than just Portuguese. And it is compatible with both Linux and windows. UK International (United Kingdom

megacli - How to Create a RAID6

This tutorial applies to the below MegaRAID card : LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-4i You can follow one of my tutorials on how to install megacli if you do have it already installed. Initially, we can initially grab information about our MegaRaid card model and the devices connected to our card. 1)

megacli - Scripts and Commands

The script below is extremely handy when managing megaRAID cards : #!/bin/bash # # Calomel.org # https://calomel.org/megacli_lsi_commands.html # LSI MegaRaid CLI # lsi.sh @ Version 0.05 # # description: MegaCLI script to configure and monitor LSI raid cards. # Full path to the MegaRaid CLI binary MegaCli="/opt/MegaRAID/

github - How to sync your server configs with a repository

You can source control the configuration file sin your server. Let's create a github repository : https://github.com/****/linux-home-svr2.git We now need to initialise our root directory, but we need to first create a .gitignore file to ignore all the files apart from the configurations we want

megacli - How to Locate Drive a drive

You can use the commands below to locate a drive. We will first list the enclosures connected to our RAID card with the command below : root@hv2:/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli# megacli -EncInfo -aALL Number of enclosures on adapter 0 -- 2 Enclosure 0: Device ID : 17 Number of Slots : 24