vCloud Automation Center 6.0 Installation fails with error code 1603 – Fix
So during my IAAS installation of vCloud Automation Center 6.0 (vCAC), I was getting the error during the installation saying: VCAC Server Setup Installation Failed, ExitCode:1603 After digging and...
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OpenStack cloud-init cannot contact or ping 169.254.169.254 to establish...
Using OpenStack Open vSwitch with VLAN’s removes a lot of the trickery involved with using public and private IP’s. That way each VM gets it’s own real IP address assigned to it. In this case, our...
View ArticleMonitoring vSAN replication tasks using RVC
First, SSH to the vCenter appliance: Then, run the following commands: rvc root@localhost password: 0 / 1 localhost/ > cd localhost/vsandc/computers/ /localhost/vsandc/computers>...
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Huge LACP Changes in ESX 5.5u1 from ESX 5.1
In vSphere 5.1, Link Aggregation Configuration Protocol (LACP) on the vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) was configured on the Uplink Porgroup. There were basic options of enabled/disabled and...
View ArticleUsing PowerCLI to remotely execute esxcli commands
First, make sure you’re using a version of PowerCLI that supports the get-esxcli cmdlet. In this case, I used a fresh install of PowerCLI 5.5. First, get-esxcli needs to be run against a single host...
View ArticleCreate a Logical Volume, EXT4 filesystem, mounted mount point and NFS export...
I was building a NFS server for our users home directories to work with our FreeIPA implementation, and instead of setting up a logical volume, filesystem and mount point manually I decided to do it...
View ArticleUsing Puppet to configure LLDPAD on the Open Compute Winterfell
On our OCP Winterfell nodes, in CentOS 6; the 10GB Mellanox NIC’s show up as eth0 and eht1, where the 1GB management interface shows up as eth2. We are also using Brocade 10GB top-of-rack switches. So...
View ArticleColumbus vBeers – Sept. 10th
School is back in session, the conference season is wrapping up, and it has been almost three months since the last Columbus vBeers. Let’s get back together and catch up and see what announcements you...
View ArticleColumbus vBeers – Oct 15th
Columbus vBeers – Oct 15th Fall is here and it has been almost a month since the last Columbus vBeers. Let’s get back together and catch up and see what announcements you are excited about. We are...
View ArticleRedHat CloudForms actual environment Architecture Guide
Working with RedHat CloudForms (CF) for the last several months now, I’ve come to some architecture guides/recommendations along with some easy to understand vernacular explanations. Region = database...
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Awesome new open source Object based storage similar to S3/Haystack – Minio!
The Minio project is inspired by Amazon’s S3 for its API and Facebook’s Haystack for its immutable data structure. Minio Logo You can track, check-out and even contribute to the project here at their...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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...
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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...
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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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