If you’re trying out Virtual Box on a Windows host, there is a little catch with the virtual network interface names that happens. It’s a platform specific thing because you are running Windows rather than Linux, and it isn’t an issue unless you are following command line scripts and docs from people using the other platform. For those who haven’t …
Using PowerCLI to synchronize vCenter Notes with Active Directory description fields
Recently one of our awesome community members posed a question for a PowerCLI script to pull some information from Active Directory to update VMware vCenter guest attributes. This is the fun of our scripting community because we can save a lot of time by asking the question among members and often they have saved some serious time by putting a …
Rackspace Private Cloud – Updated to OpenStack Grizzly Release!
Just in case you didn’t spot this in the Twitter stream yesterday, there was some really cool news from the team at Rackspace! The Rackspace Private Cloud software is now updated with the Grizzly release of OpenStack. (http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/about-rackspace-private-cloud). Dubbed the Rackspace Private Cloud v4.0, this is a great way to get your OpenStack cloud up and running with significantly less …
Puppet 101 – Basic installation for master and agent machines on Ubuntu 12.04 with VMware Workstation
You don’t have to go far to hear the word Puppet these days. Configuration management isn’t just a new trend that is hitting IT environments. It is a methodology for stateful, repeatable, DevOps style management of your infrastructure. For the VMware folks, this is now a part of the vCloud ecosystem in a way because of the integration of Puppet …