BrainShare session
Like Jo already mentioned earlier, i will be doing the HASI session on brainshare this year:
TUT1512 - Conquering the High Availability Storage Infrastructure
Looking forward to it!
December 27th, 2007 - Posted in Novell | | 0 Comments
Xen doesn’t like my cdrom
I’m using xen in quite a lot environments and i really like it but there is this 1 thing about xen that still annoys me.
As soon as you need to start changing cdrom’s for a virtual machine the problems start. Especially in combination with HVM.
virt-manager is a real pain to do this so I’m using the xm block-* commands most of the time.
To detach a cdrom from a virtual machine
First do a xm block-list vm_name to get the list of the connected devices (with their ids)
xm block-detach vm_name id -f
and afterwards you can re-attach the cdrom again
xm block-attach vm_name phy:/dev/cdrom /dev/hdc r
Is there someone who knows a better solution when you want to switch cds ?
December 18th, 2007 - Posted in linux, xen | | 1 Comments
Unity on Linux
I read a very interesting post from someone that works at Vmware:
“VMware Workstation 6.5 will include support for Unity, allowing your Windows and Linux programs to intermingle with the click of a button.”
Mac users already had this feature but now it seems it’s coming to Linux (finally!)
December 16th, 2007 - Posted in linux | | 0 Comments
Groupwise clustering on Linux
While I was cleaning up some (test) virtual machines I stumbled upon my test cluster with groupwise. Before deleting the vms I decided to backup my cluster configuration for possible future use.
It was a 2 node cluster , evms , ssh stonith device and a groupwise system (postoffice + domain)
Psst: I’m working on the 2nd article about package mgmt on sles.
December 13th, 2007 - Posted in SLES, groupwise, linux | | 0 Comments
SLES Package management demystified (part 1)
This is the first part of my series about package management on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Read more
December 8th, 2007 - Posted in Novell, SLES, linux, rpm | | 0 Comments
Linux & AD
I stumbled upon this article where the author stated that authentication against AD from a Linux machine was never that easy. I don’t know if you ever tried installing SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10), but this product already had the ability to make your linux machine part of an AD network (from within the installation) and it also gives you the ability to work off line with your credentials and you can login into gdm , etc… with your windows login. But it’s nice to see Likewise opening up their product and i’m very interested how it will work out when they start to apply group policies on Linux…
December 7th, 2007 - Posted in SLED, linux | | 0 Comments
GroupwiseR summit 2007
The GroupWiseR Summit 2007 in Brugge is over. To be short: it was GREAT! I met some very interesting people, saw some cool new stuff and learned a lot of interesting things.
The keynote by Alex Evans was interesting because it showed us where Groupwise is going to in the next few years. I’m especially happy about 1 thing: the new Linux client! That new client will be shipped as part of Groupwise 8 (Codename: Bonsai) which will be shipped in the first part of 2008.
The most fun part was on Tuesday evening when we had a Troubleshooting session from Jan-Arie Snijders. He’s a support engineer at the Novell Support Center where he’s helping people with Groupwise troubles every day. He created a broken Groupwise system on a Netware machine which contained the most common troubles he encounters and than we had to find them and fix them. Great fun.
Food and Hotel were excellent. There was even a Sinterklaas party on Monday. Seems like everybody was good in 2007 because we all got a present 
Special thanks to all people that made it possible (Erno, Paul, Herbi, ….)
I hope there will be a summit again in 2008!
December 5th, 2007 - Posted in Novell, groupwise | | 0 Comments
