Tagged in

linux

New Linux Active Directory Integration

This used to be quite complex, but now is astoundingly simple. Now there is a new project call realmd. It is in recent version of Debian (Jessie and Sid) and Ubuntu (since 13.04). For Red Hat types, it is RHEL7 and Fedora (since 18).

If you\'re on Debian …

VMware CLI on Ubuntu Saucy Salamander

VMware CLI on Ubuntu Saucy Salamander

The current project (as of this week) has me moving away from Openstack for a while. For the next couple of months I will be immersing myself in monitor, metrics and logging. Naturally, this being a shiney new environment, this involves a significant amount of VMware time.

I have inherited …

Openstack Neutron Performance problems

Openstack Neutron Performance problems

For the last few weeks I have been consulting on a private cloud project for a local company. Unsurprisingly this has been based around the typical Openstack setup.

  • Nova - KVM
  • Neutron - Openvswitch
  • Cinder - LVM
  • Glance - local files

My architecture is nothing out of the ordinary. A pair of hosts each …

RHEL and CentOS joining forces

RHEL and CentOS joining forces

Yesterday saw probably the biggest FLOSS news in recent times. Certainly the biggest news of 2014 so far :-) By some freak of overloaded RSS readers, I missed the announcement, but I did see this: