Build a 3-node mongodb cluster using puppet (for use with High Availability...
One of the core components to a Graylog installation in MongoDB. Quite possibly the worst database ever to grace the planet :) Hopefully, from a Graylog prospective, MongoDB will disappear from the...
View ArticleBuilding a two-node elasticsearch cluster for Graylog using Puppet
Assumptions: Two servers, in this case: elastica.domain.com – 172.16.100.80 elasticb.domain.com – 172.16.100.81 8 vCPU 16GB vMem A second hard disk of 500GB /dev/sdb1 formatted XFS and mounted as...
View ArticleConfigure a datacenter mail relay through Office 365 based on Postfix using...
When standing up a new greenfield environment, one of the first services you typically end up needing is an internal mail relay. We use Office 365, so we wanted to our mail relay to send mail through...
View ArticleMinio – 100% S3 compatible, free, open-source, object-based storage now ready...
AB of Gluster fame, is off working on another kick-butt storage project. Again, its in the Software Defined Storage realm, this time its called Minio! A play on the minimal-io phrase/mindset. Written...
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SSH Key Mapping for AD Users authenticating against an IPA trust
Under IPA Server > ID Views > Default Trust View, add the LDAP user you want to override with POSIX settings. Then add the SSH public key to the user: (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle ||...
View ArticleInstalling IPA on RHEL 7 and utilizing an Active Directory Trust
This document is dependent on the following assumptions: NetBIOS names of the IPA domain and AD domain must be different. In addtion, NetBIOS names of the IPA server and AD DC server must be different....
View ArticleUsing Puppet to manage virt-who to map virtual guests to physical hosts in...
The virt-who package allows you to map virtual machines to the physical host so that you can take advantage of RedHat Virtual Data Center licensing when using Satellite 6.1. It allows you to use your...
View ArticleEncore Technologies Datacenter Progress – Ceiling is up!
Every week brings major progress on the data center build out. This week the first ceiling went in, most of the drywall in the main room was finished and the sub-floor was sealed. Check out the latest...
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vBeers – Columbus, OH (Thursday, March 10th, 2016)
Wolf’s Ridge Tap Room Please join us for the March 2016 edition of Columbus vBeers. We are returning to Wolf’s Ridge Tap Room. The Tap Room is located at the rear of the building on the corner of...
View ArticleUsing virt-install to install Windows Server 2008 in qcow2 format
When installing Server 2008 on Qemu, for the creation of an OpenStack Windows Server 2008 template; I found it easiest to use virt-install. Below is the code that I use to kick off that virt-install....
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 SNMP Configuration using PowerShell
We needed to update the SNMP configuration script to take parameters so that we could pass this through CloudForms, our cloud management platform. Below you’ll find the PowerShell script that we came...
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Unable to find the AWS Config Topic in RedHat CloudForms or ManageIQ
After adding an AWS Cloud Provider to my CloudForms environment, I quickly noticed an absurd amount of AWS errors in the EVM log (/var/www/miq/vmdb/log/evm.log). AWS Config Errors After working with...
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Use PowerCLI to apply your vSAN storage policy
I noticed that VM’s created with the vSphere fat client, were not getting the vSAN storage policy applied to them. So they we’re not as protected as one might think. lack of storage policy I wanted to...
View ArticleManaging your VMware environment with CloudForms – CloudForms VMware Tools...
blog.reversion.org – CloudForms VMware Tools Upgrade method: I wrote a method a while back to allow me to upgrade VMware tools from within the CloudForms interface. I thought I would share it. I...
View ArticleUsing the CloudForms SOAP API for daily provision reports
My coworker Matt Hyclak, posted a great blog post on using the CloudForms SOAP API to create a CSV output of daily system builds for importing into our legacy CMDB. Check out his blog post here: Using...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to Install SNMP and configure Community, Location and...
One of the steps needed to onboard a system into our monitoring tools is to configure SNMP. If the customer template does not have SNMP pre-configured, or is not using GPO to do it; it quickly becomes...
View ArticleRHEV 3.4 reports application show as not installed – Fixed
Redhat has a KB article out there that lists steps on re-configuring rhevm-reports for RHEV 3.3 here, but nothing is listed for RHEV 3.4. Below is what I did to fix rhevm-reports: First, make sure that...
View ArticleUsing vSAN RVC to learn more about your vSAN environment
The vSAN Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) is a very-much undocumented feature of vSAN that allows you to explore some pretty kick-ass features of vSAN in terms of what-if scenarios, cluster info, and...
View ArticleRedHat CloudForms Service Dialog to resize a VMware virtual disk
Thanks to Matt Hyclak: Here’s what we’re using. We have a button attached to VMs that calls a Service Dialog to gather the disk information (size and disk). Currently we assume there’s only one SCSI...
View ArticleUpdated Quanta Winterfell BIOS fixes issue where you cannot send keystrokes...
After working this issue with Quanta/VMware since July of 2014, we finally have a new working issue for the Quanta Winterfell motherboards. What was happening: You could see everything on the SOL...
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