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vBeers – Columbus, OH (Thursday, March 10th, 2016)
Please join us for the March 2016 edition of Columbus vBeers. We are returning to Wolf’s Ridge Tap Room. The Tap Room is located at the rear of the building on the corner of Lazelle & Hickory Streets. Stop by to enjoy a brew and some techie conversation. Please take a moment to register for […]
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Using virt-install to install Windows Server 2008 in qcow2 format
When installing Server 2008 on Qemu, for the creation of an OpenStack Windows Server 2008 template; I found it easiest to use virt-install. Below is the code that I use to kick off that virt-install. virt-install –virt-type kvm –name win2008 –ram 2048 –cdrom=/path/to/cd-iso/server-2008.iso –disk path=/path/to/disk/file/location/2008.qcow2 –network network=default,model=virtio –graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0 –noautoconsole –os-type=windows –os-variant=win2k8
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Windows Server 2012 R2 SNMP Configuration using PowerShell
We needed to update the SNMP configuration script to take parameters so that we could pass this through CloudForms, our cloud management platform. Below you’ll find the PowerShell script that we came up with.
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Unable to find the AWS Config Topic in RedHat CloudForms or ManageIQ
After adding an AWS Cloud Provider to my CloudForms environment, I quickly noticed an absurd amount of AWS errors in the EVM log (/var/www/miq/vmdb/log/evm.log). After working with RedHat support it was determined to be a bug within the new implementation of the AWS config service. You can fix it one of two ways. Implement the […]
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