I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues. The current vcenter has a few custom attributes and notes that would not be transferred as part of the move. So I wanted to use powercli to read the attributes out and put them back. To export the …

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This blog is a follow on from a blog post I wrote ages ago and have eventually got round to finishing it off In this part of the process we will create the disks and setup the DRBD devices First we need to connect to the Virtual Machines from a terminal session as it makes life much easier and quicker when you connect …

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I was struggling with an install of ESXi on a cisco 6509 switch where the management and VM LAN connectivity worked just fine but for some reason the SAN NFS VLAN just did not want to communicate with the Nexenta on that VLAN. After some searching and trial and error I was able to utilise this post …

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I am busy working on a contract with a company that is implementing a 10G network for their ESX cluster. We have been using extreme X650 10G copper switches for the core. Migrating the current servers to the 10G environment was relatively easy and went with minimal issues. Over the last 2 weeks I have been trying to …

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Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD To create this cluster you will need 2 ubuntu node servers installed as follows. I am creating this cluster inside of vMware so I created 2 VM's with: 1GB RAM 1 10GB hdd for the root (/) partition. 1 20GB hdd for the database store. I downloaded the ubuntu 9.10 …

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I have for some time now been wondering how many people actually use Bongo. The reason for this is that we have had images available for a while and I am still non the wiser as to how many people actually use them. I faithfully spend hours and hours building packages and getting them out the door but have no markers to …

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I have just upgraded to 11.2 from ubuntu 9.10 on my IBM / Lenovo T61 laptop. ( I will post a better blog about that later) What I wanted to mention here is that the current vMware workstation 6.5.3 does not want to run on my system. I have found this post …

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I have great news about the images on the rPath system. I have been able to get Bongo 0.6.1 to build on the rPath system with a json patch from Alex. I have promoted it to the QA and RELEASE repo's so it should be available for you guys. Please test and let me know if you have any issues. You can find the images here

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The new Bongo package has been compiled, packaged and promoted so it should now be available to those running the images. This version has a number of fixes that were highlighted by the change to the cmake compiler. Thanks to the hard work of Alex and Patrick we are now in a position to say the the mail store is now …

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Bongo Images and the 0.5 release I have been working on the images for the 0.5 release of Bongo and I have now completed them. They can be found here http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/bongo/latestRelease There is a change however in how we will be implementing the images from now on. I have decided that to make it …

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