Today a dream came true for me by getting the honor to present at Red Hat Summit in SF 2016 “Automation and configuration management across hybrid clouds with CloudForms, Satellite6 and Ansible Tower“. When I joined Trivadis in 2006 Daniel Steiner who was a Senior Linux Engineer took me under his wings (He had earned…
Please join us at Red Hat Summit in SF and attend the sessions below. Those sessions highlight how versatile CloudForms is and what problems it can solve for you. Red Hat Summit pass discounted rate of $1,195: RHSRAF Tuesday, 10:15am Enabling digital transformation via the Red Hat management portfolio Alessandro Perilli, Red Hat Joe Fitzgerald,…
This is a brief tutorial on how you can create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud image for Googles Compute Engine. These instructions are meant for a Linux hosts which runs KVM. 1. Download the GCE Tools google-cloud-sdk so you can create and upload the future image. You will need to have internet connection as…
Recently I had a customer asking about how our solutions suite works and what we can do with it. RedHat for me is one of the only companies in the world who can pretty much deliver the full stack from infrastructure up to application and back. With RHEL OSP8 we even include OpenDaylight which means…
This June 26-28, 2016 Mike Dahlgren and I will speak at Red Hat summit in San Francisco. The topic is: Automation and configuration management across hybrid clouds with CloudForms, Satellite6 and Ansible Tower Have you ever wondered what you need to be able to automate and orchestrate you data centers as well as cloud environments?…
In the past we used the VMware-vix-disklib-5.5.2-1890828.x86_64.tar.gz for VSphere 5.5 which was pretty easy to install. VMWare included a script called vmware-install.pl which did all the work for you. In 6.0 the script is gone. Attached find the steps to get it working with CloudForms 4 and VSphere 6. You can find the VDDK 6.0…
If you were wondering how CloudForms 4.0 and OpenShift 3.1 work together then you are at the right place. This post is about the integration of CloudForms 4.0 and OpenShift 3.1. I will describe how-to install OSE 3.1 and how-to configure it so that you can connect CloudForms with OpenShift 3.1. My steps here are…
Cloudforms / ManageIQ has a very powerful automation engine. There is basically nothing you can’t do with it. You could even trigger an api call to make coffee during a provisioning run. But what if your provisioning fails? Every step which is executed by the cloudforms automation engine gets logged into /var/www/miq/vmdb/log/evm.log or /var/www/miq/vmdb/log/automation.log. As…