Black and White Powerful World - Linux

Recently I got a chance to work in a migration activity where we migrated JAVA, NET and PHP sites from a set of Rackspace Public Cloud servers with RackConnect® V2 to a set of Rackspace Public Cloud Servers with RackConnect® V3.

RackConnect® in Rackspace enables us to leverage dedicated servers for our Public Cloud servers. Refer here.

I am not a LINUX admin but in this article, I would like to write all the commands which I learnt from this activity.

Linux:

Rsync is used to copy or sync files from one location to another. It can be two servers.

-      This command will sync files from remote server (192.168.21.20) to destination server (i.e. current server). This can changed in other way.

-      It will show you the progress of the synchronization.

-      Important thing to note is the slash.

§  If only the items from source folder has to be copied inside the destination folder, a slash has to be added in the destination path.

§  If we do not keep it, source folder with all the files will be copied in destination folder. Like /data/site1/site1/….

This article will be updated. 

Start Mongo DB using Batch Script

• This script is applicable for MongoDB 2.6 Standard x64
• Install the MongoDB 2.6 Standard x64 from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads. Install location should be C:\Program Files\MongoDB 2.6 Standard\
• Once installed, execute the batch file which will create the data folder and the start the mongo db.
• For any change in the installation folder, you can change the batch script

Download it from GitHub

Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) 8: Software and Hardware Requirements

The new Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) 8 has lot of changes from the previous Sitecore version. There is a need of latest Software and Hardware to run a new SXP instance. The detailed explanation is available in dev.sitecore.net. Here is the quick overview of the requirements.

Requirements for Sitecore Experience Platform:

Internet Information Services (IIS):

• IIS 8.5
• IIS 8.0
• IIS 7.5
• IIS 7.0

Operating System (OS):

• Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
• Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) SP1+
• Windows Server 2008 (32/64-bit) SP2+
• Windows Vista (32/64-bit) SP2+ (Business, Ultimate, Enterprise)
• Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit) (Enterprise, Professional, Core)
• Windows 8 (32/64-bit) (Enterprise, Professional, Core)
• Windows 7 (32/64-bit, Home Premium and higher) SP1+ (Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional)

.NET Framework:

• .NET Framework 4.5

Visual Studio:

• Visual Studio 2012 or later

Database: (supports corresponding express edition)

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012
• Microsoft SQL Server 2014
• MongoDB Database 2.6.1 or later (for Sitecore xDB)

Hardware:

• Minimum: 4 core processor (4 threads), 8GB of RAM
• Recommended by Sitecore: 4 core processor (8 threads), 16GB of RAM