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CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

By : Timothy Boronczyk, IRAKLI NADAREISHVILI
Book Image

CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

By: Timothy Boronczyk, IRAKLI NADAREISHVILI

Overview of this book

CentOS is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) sources and is widely used as a Linux server. This book will help you to better configure and manage Linux servers in varying scenarios and business requirements. Starting with installing CentOS, this book will walk you through the networking aspects of CentOS. You will then learn how to manage users and their permissions, software installs, disks, filesystems, and so on. You’ll then see how to secure connection to remotely access a desktop and work with databases. Toward the end, you will find out how to manage DNS, e-mails, web servers, and more. You will also learn to detect threats by monitoring network intrusion. Finally, the book will cover virtualization techniques that will help you make the most of CentOS.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Adding storage to a virtual machine


Even if you're not a data hoarder, the time will probably come when you need to add additional storage to a guest system. No worries! This is easy to do! This recipe teaches you how to add and modify the virtual hardware attached to a machine.

Getting ready

This recipe requires a virtual machine set up as described in the previous recipes.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to add storage to a virtual machine:

  1. Make sure the virtual machine you want to modify is not running.

  2. Open the virtual machine by double-clicking on the desired entry in the list of available machines.

  3. Either click on the lightbulb icon in the menu bar or select Details from View to show the virtual machine's hardware details:

    The machine's virtual hardware is displayed and resources can be added, modified, and removed

  4. Click on the Add Hardware button in the bottom-left corner of the window to open the Add New Virtual Hardware window.

  5. Select Storage from the list of possible resources. Specify...