Last week I started to play around with Openstack in combination with VMware vCenter. I used Devstack as baseline and configured the VMware support. I wasn’t expecting that it will directly work but it did. The configuration is described in the OpenStack Wiki. As environment I used 3 HP Dl360 G7 (2xQuad Core, 96GB …

Today AMD and Canonical announced a new awesome out of the box solution for Openstack based on a SeMicro SM15000 and Ubuntu LTS 14.04 and Openstack. Official Announcement page AMD-Canonical Out of the Box Solution Details: AMD HARDWARE <td> CANONICAL SOFTWARE </td> SeaMicro SM15000 server provides the …

Recently I had to collect log files from a couple remote hosts with Syslog-NG. I found a pretty good config which separates the log files in different folders based on the hostname. Ubuntu Syslog-NG server: <br /> vi /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf<br /> <br /> source s_net {<br /> udp(<br …

Sorry for long time not posting new stuff. I was extremely busy at work which ended in a long phase of sickness. But now it starts changing got new tasks and responsibilities in the companies cloud area. It’s the management of an internal Amazon like cloud. Real interesting topics with a lot of new challenges. …

There are new online trainings and corresponding exam’s available. VMware Certified Associate – Cloud VMware Certified Associate – Data Centre Virtualication VMware Certified Associate – Workforce Mobility later on a 4th one will follow VMware Certified Associate – Network Virtualization I successfully passed VCA-Cloud …

I faced this issue in my environment multiple times now. If I try to consolidate I get an error message “Unable to access file since it is locked” An easy way to get this resolved is, you shutdown the virtual machine and afterwards migrate it to a different host and datastore. After this migration you can consolidate …

To remove an VSA cluster you have to execute an script which is part of the VSA Manager. Details:

Based on the response of VMware on a SR it is possible to increase the memory of a VDP appliance to 16GB.

If you are facing issues with failed VDP backups try to increase the memory of the VDP appliances to 8GB. In my environment this has improved the situation. Still issues but 50% less.

I’m running 10 VDP appliance in an environment and I’m facing massive issues with backup. Sometimes the backup of all VM’s was successful but most of the time only a few virtual machines were successful. If someone else is facing equal issues would be great if you could post an comment. In the meantime I have opened an …