Posts

Installing Open Monitoring Distribution (OMD) 1.10 on CentOS 6.5 and creating a Nagios site with omd create and omd start.

archived Feb 19, 2014 2 min Nagios Monitoring

Deploying an all-in-one OpenStack Havana cloud on CentOS 6.4 with packstack, with floating IPs on the home network.

archived Jan 19, 2014 6 min Openstack Linux

Managing Rackspace Cloud Databases from the command line with the trove client: listing flavors, creating instances and enabling root.

archived Nov 20, 2013 3 min Rackspace Openstack

Reaching a Windows VM's VNC console on XenServer through an SSH tunnel to the VNC port reported by xenstore.

An expanded salt-cloud rackspace.conf profile file covering Rackspace Cloud Linux distros and server sizes, and how to list them.

archived Jul 27, 2013 2 min Saltstack Rackspace

Using salt-cloud on a SaltStack master to provision Rackspace Cloud Servers as salt minions with an Ubuntu profile.

archived Jul 19, 2013 3 min Saltstack Rackspace

Passing an LSI SAS1068E controller through to an Ubuntu 12.04 guest on XenServer 6.2 using pciback.hide and PCI other-config.

archived Jul 1, 2013 2 min Xenserver Virtualization

Attaching a Rackspace Cloud Network to an existing NextGen Cloud Server with the novaclient virtual-interface commands.

archived Jun 15, 2013 3 min Rackspace Networking

Sharing a Rackspace Cloud Block Storage volume from a CentOS Cloud Server to other Cloud Servers over NFS.

archived May 25, 2013 3 min Rackspace Storage

Working around IPMI iKVM virtual storage hanging under Java 7 by running Java 6 in a Windows VM to select the ISO.

archived May 23, 2013 2 min Hardware Virtualization