Which is a good thing, mind. A good friend of mine, the “Any Stacker” (blog, twitter) has been working on and has a functioning prototype for a Chef Broker in Razor (github link). As it gets a bit more functional, I’ll put together some videos on usage and the like. However, it looks like my
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Today marks the first day in what will be the start of the #VCDX BrownBag series with John Arrasjid (@vcdx001). For those of you who have been with us from the VCP to the VCAP-DCA & DCD series, having a VCDX specific series has always been a dream of ours, and having John on the
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Ran into some issues over the weekend getting Chef Server installed using apt on 12.04. Starting with the directions here. I started having issues trying to bring up the webui and chef-server after the apt install of those packages. More specifically: $ sudo service chef-server-webui start * Starting chef-server-webui ~ In 22617 [fail] This led
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Deciding to restart the series the day before the show lead to a small crowd and not a lot of questions.
Follow on below for the Slides and links from the conversation
After a long hiatus due to multiple VMworlds and the backlog of things that needed to be done it is time to restart the APAC vBrownBag. The VCAP5-DCA prep wasn’t lighting me up so I’ve decided to return to what we do best, design. I think that there are a few areas of design that
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There are a large number of ways you can go down the path of getting OpenStack and it’s components installed. For my lab I chose to get familiar with a few new technologies along the way, as well as have some of these steps be something that can be extracted back into a production environment.
-> Continue reading Homelab Rebuild – Part 2 “Process”
Spent last few weeks neck deep in Razor, and actually made my first pull request. Here are some other handy things for working with Razor daily. Most of these are handy for working with a larger number of nodes/policies/active models… as well, things get unwieldy past the first 10-15 nodes. Some of these will likely
-> Continue reading Living with Razor Part 2
Hello readers! Josh Atwell here. The #vBrownBag crew here at ProfessionalVMware.com has been extremely blessed in 2012 with amazing community support for what we organize on the podcast. In 2012 we’ve managed to produce a VCP5 Series, VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD series as well as months focused on storage and security. We’ve expanded into APAC, now starting
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag Podcast of Plenty
First, some background on Razor: http://nickapedia.com/2012/05/21/lex-parsimoniae-cloud-provisioning-with-a-razor/ http://purevirtual.eu/2012/07/02/how-to-get-started-with-razor-and-puppet-part-1/ http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/05/how-to-deploy-esxi-5-using-razor-puppet.html Take the time to read those over, install it, work with it a bit in VMs or so, as this takes off with the assumption that you already have a working Razor installation. 1) Rebuilding the razor.ipxe file:razor config ipxe > /var/lib/tftpboot/razor.ipxe 2) Alternative DNSMASQ for chain
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Design in quotes, because, like all good plans, it’s only good until I start laying the bits down. So far: Gear My old VMware lab comprised a number of things: 3x “Baby Dragon” compute nodes 1x Open Compute Gen1 Intel (dual hexcore, 48GB) 1x Iomega ix4-200d 1x “FrankenStor” Nexenta box After the transition, I hope
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I’m a big fan of simple vSphere network configurations, one vSwitch with a small number of fast uplinks. This has been my stance since ESX 3 and I think it’s still a good starting point for a network design. I have had some concerns about the vNetwork Distributed switch (vDS) with it’s management through vCentre
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As part of my transition at work from VMware related technologies into the wonderful OpenSource world of OpenStack, over the next few days and weeks I’ll be tearing down quite the extensive VMware lab, and rebuilding with OpenStack. I’ll keep you posted on the progress.
Talk about a breakneck week. The sessions are not just packed with people, but also with information. Rather than give you a long bullet list of the keynotes, the folks on the OpenStack blog did a pretty good job summarizing that here. Also, you really need to watch the Troy Toman keynote: I also managed
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In short, I didn’t get to much other than the Keynote(s) today. Was doing some last minute prep for a 4:30p session today (Wednesday). Keynote Summary: Live streaming is available on openstack.org This is the largest summit yet, 1400 folks in attendance. Quite a few last minute, so, logistics on day 1 were a bit
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Quick Summary of Monday at the OpenStack Summit. First, the important things: The conference bag was quite nice, and quite thoughtful. A carry on sized duffel bag. Mostly, this will be filled with t-shirts and non computer things for the trip back home. I got in late, so didn’t get to as many sessions as
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Just prior to shutting down my laptop for the final bit of pre-flight packing, I thought I’d point out a few of the sessions I plan to be at in the coming week at the OpenStack summit: Monday: Real-time Node Monitoring Hybrid Clouds w/ Cloud Foundry Quantum API Improvements Incremental Imaging / Database in the
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Having not used the ESXi command line as often as I should, I logged in and found myself in an unfamiliar place. My objective was to enter maintenance mode, reboot the host, and exit maintenance mode. ESXi CLI Enter Maintenance Mode vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter ESXi CLI Exit Maintenance Mode vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit ESXi CLI Reboot the host
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It took a while, but the recordings are now available. As Nick says on his site, we had some localized audio/video issues there were uncorrectable (part of why it took so long). Below is the list of these sessions: I did collate the video’s into “days” for easier consumption:VMworld 2012 – Day 1 – Day
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Having too many browser tabs open sucks, so here is a list of things that I have found interesting or useful, OpenStack related in the last week or so: Live Migration: http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/09/11/demo-live-migration-without-shared-storage-using-xenserver-and-openstack/ From IBM on Quantum: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-497f370090f5/entry/quantum_folsom12?lang=en OpenFlow, OpenSwitch, OpenStack: http://my1.fr/blog/running-an-openflow-network-with-openstack-quantum-floodlight/ What’s new in Folsom: http://my1.fr/blog/whats-new-in-openstack-folsom/ Quantum Plug-ins: http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/09/28/quantum-plugin-comparison/ Swift in Folsom: http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/27/top-three-swift-features-in-openstack-folsom/ Folsom Architecture:
-> Continue reading Link Dump 10/5/12
vBrownBags with Edward Haletky (virtualizationpractice / @texiwill) are always delighting, also a bit frightening. Last night we talked theory, design, and practicalities for end-to-end security when designing or selecting a Cloud deployment. Video Slides I don’t have the slides specifically, however, they can be found here.