Home Lab: (though not directly related to tools but various tools are used to have the lab running) 🙂 Purpose: My purpose of the home lab was to do something different from the regular tasks done at office. As all the vmware vsphere home lab users around the world, I too have started with white… Read More »
KVM has been around for quite some time but never tried to do much with it. With Openstack, KVM has been the default hypervisor of the choice and KVM has good support in openstack community. Some of my explorations led to few great readings and some trial and errors on KVM. What is KVM: Introduction is probably not needed… Read More »
Installation of vmware tools for linux versions can be done using the open-vm-tools. Noticed the below message while trying to install vmware tools on my Ubuntu 14.04 $ sudo ./vmware-install.pl [sudo] password for rsa: open-vm-tools are available from the OS vendor and VMware recommends using open-vm-tools. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803 for more information. Do you still want… Read More »
Every since I started working with openstack. I have tried different methods right from manual installation of every component — devstack. One of of the most easiest method of installing openstack is using the RDO repo with packstack. I got the following error unfortunately I was unable to find the issue. Had to use step 3(revert back… Read More »
If you want to specifically monitor a single host in the Log insight then this can be done using the following steps:- 1. Click on Administration on the left corner of the screen. 2. Add vCenter server ip to vsphere Integration and test the connection. 3. Click on advance options and select the host… Read More »
In case of lab environments the best method is to create Nested ESXi VMs. This can be accomplished easily by creating ESXiVMs with the GOS as ESXi 5.x. Wrote a small script which does the same thing. There might be other ways of doing this like using autodeploy or using API to create the ESXiVMs at the… Read More »
Powercli script to shutdown and start of virtual machine. This powercli script was created for a specific use case where we needed to shutdown the virtual machine and start it after shutdown is complete. During the writing of the script found the most important case is how you cleanly shutdown your virtual machine and then… Read More »
This Blog post is about getting started with Ansible. Getting started with Ansbile. If you haven’t started using Ansible then it is something you are missing. Ansible is a configuration managemnt tool. It can be installed on any linux machine. For this demo using ubuntu 12.04 It has some of the dependencies that need to… Read More »
PowerCLI C:Program Files (x86)VMwareInfrastructurevSphere PowerCLI> Connect-CIServer -server 192.168.1.18 -User Administrator -Password ” PowerCLI C:Program Files (x86)VMwareInfrastructurevSphere PowerCLI> get-command -Module vmware.vimautomation.cloud | select name Name —- Add-CIDatastore Connect-CIServer Disconnect-CIServer Get-Catalog Get-CIAccessControlRule Get-CIDatastore Get-CINetworkAdapter Get-CIRole Get-CIUser Get-CIVApp Get-CIVAppNetwork Get-CIVAppStartRule Get-CIVAppTemplate Get-CIView Get-CIVM Get-ExternalNetwork Get-Media Get-NetworkPool Get-Org Get-OrgNetwork Get-OrgVdc Get-ProviderVdc Import-CIVApp Import-CIVAppTemplate New-CIAccessControlRule New-CIVApp New-CIVAppNetwork New-CIVAppTemplate New-Org New-OrgNetwork… Read More »
One of the issues noticed while running devstack in my virtual machine. It was not able to start the apache service it was failing. The below error reflected that there was already a process running on the same port. >> error (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 (98)Address already… Read More »