Halleluja! Thanks Novell for hearing my p2v praise!

I’ve read some very good news today: Novell is buying platespin

February 25th, 2008 - Posted in Novell, xen | | 0 Comments

xen p2v migrations

Dear lazyweb,

Do you know any good free tools to do p2v migrations to a xen environment. (HVM would be a bonus)

There are enough manuals, howtos, wiki pages, … with all the necessary steps to migrate your physical machines to a xen virtual machine. I even wrote some scripts to automate this (but only for linux).

I only found solutions like platespin and the XenEnterprise p2v tool.

Someone also suggested to fiddle around with the vmware converter tool and some qemu magic to convert the vmware virtual disk. But the vmware converter only seems to be available as an .exe

Any suggestions?

Edit: I recently discovered http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/

February 11th, 2008 - Posted in xen | | 3 Comments

Monitor IDM driver(s)

Identity manager is a very nice product which allows you to synchronize data (identities) between different systems like AD, eDirectory, Oracle, …

It’s using drivers to connect to the different systems. Data is not synced between the systems if the drivers are not running. Therefore it would be good if you could monitor the state of the drivers (with your favorite monitoring tool )

A few days ago I stumbled upon this Cool Solutions post about a nagios plugin that can be used to monitor your IDM drivers. Very useful !

February 3rd, 2008 - Posted in IDM | | 0 Comments