Diskless Remote Boot in Linux

DRBL provides diskless or systemless environment. It uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware. It also includes Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning utility similar to Ghost.
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S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools

smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite.
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Open DHCP Server tutorial

DHCP Server Open Source Freeware Windows/Linux. MultiSubnet DHCP Server supports Dynamic, Static Leases, Relay Agents, BOOTP, PXEBOOT. Global, Range and Client Specific Options. Supports filtering of ranges on Mac Address, Vendor and User Class. The LDAP version reads all configuration from LDAP, stores lease info into LDAP and allows multiple instances all in sync. It can also update Zones of any LDAP based DNS Server.
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QP actor frameworks and QM modeling tool

QP is a family of lightweight software frameworks for building responsive and modular real-time embedded applications as systems of cooperating, event-driven active objects (actors). The QP family consists of QP/C, QP/C++, and QP-nano frameworks, which are all strictly quality controlled, superbly documented, and commercially licensable. The behavior of active objects is specified in QP by means of hierarchical state machines (UML statecharts).
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Iometer tutorial

I/O performance Analysis Tool. VMware I/O Analyzer is an integrated framework designed to measure ... automates storage performance analysis through a unified interface that can be used ... synthetic I/O loads or a trace replay tool to deploy real application workloads. It uses the VMware VI SDK to remotely collect storage performance...
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