I have started to try out Openstack and I have to say that I’m really impressed. The installation on my HP Microserver was extremely easy using the Devstack script. All looks familiar to AWS and it was no problem at all to create an start the first virtual machine. That’s it for now … more post will come about …

It’s now a while that I have posted something new on my page 🙁 but currently I’m extremely busy at work. Setting up multiple new environments based on new / different hardware and in multiple data centre area’s. This is quite interesting because all environments will work together even if they don’t have direct …

If you are using Datastore cluster with enabled SDRS in vSphere 5.1 you possible will receive this error message. Call “StorageResourceManager.RecommendDatastores” for object “StorageResourceManager” on vCenter Server failed Currently is no fix available from VMware. But will possible be available in ESXi 5.1 Update 1. …

HP has announced a new version of the nice little Microserver. After the NL36 and NL40 now it is the NL54. The basics are the same the only real improvement is the new CPU which is now running on 2.2Ghz instead of 1.5Ghz. The official memory limit is still 8GB. 🙁 I had expected that HP will increase the limit to 16GB. …

Normally you install the vSphere Webclient on an additional windows server to separate it from the vCenter. This results in one additional Windows license (Server or 7 both possible). But wait why should I do this if there is the vCenter Appliance from VMware which contains the Webclient running on Linux? So I tried it …

I’m currently playing around with the new VMware VSA 5.1. I have installed it successfully on a standalone vCenter with local users. But on a different vCenter which is using an OpenLDAP as user base the VSA Manager fails to install with the error message “Login failed due to a Bad user or password”. The reason for …

Yesterday VMware has announced the new VMware vSphere 5.1 with multiple cool new features. Feature list from the Whats New VMware 51 Platform Technical Whitepaper.pdf VMware vSphere 5.1 introduces many new features and enhancements that further extend the core capabilities of the vSphere platform. The core platform …

Since May ( Post ) I was facing multiple Kernel panic’s in my VDR appliance. Now I got something like a fix which is running quite smooth in my environment. Steps: Deploy a new VDR 2.0 appliance SSH in or log into the console (root/vmw@re) 3. Install this kernel. rpm -i …

Sounds strange but yes it is possible 🙂 Just one module and some lines of Powershell code and thats it. Import-Module SSH-Sessions $old_passwd = "vmware" $new_passwd = "VMware1!" New-SshSession -ComputerName IP-ADDRESS -Username admin -Password $old_passwd $result = Invoke-SshCommand -ComputerName …

The great virtualization solution Proxmox VE has been release in version 2.1. Release notes – simplify GUI for users without permissions – implemented startup/shutdown ordering – improved task logs on node startup/shutdown – added Russian, Italian and Turkish translation – updated corosync cluster stack to 1.4.3 – …