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SS45267 – Automation and configuration management across hybrid clouds with Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Satellite 6, and Ansible Tower by Red Hat

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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… Read More »SS45267 – Automation and configuration management across hybrid clouds with Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Satellite 6, and Ansible Tower by Red Hat

CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Sessions at Red Hat Summit SF 2016

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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,… Read More »CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Sessions at Red Hat Summit SF 2016

Build a RHEL Cloud Image for GCE

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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… Read More »Build a RHEL Cloud Image for GCE

A Recipe to Build a Successful Cloud Environment: Stop Thinking Legacy, Think Cloud!

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The awesome Narendra Narang and myself got invited to speak as alternate speakers at OpenStack Summit in Austin 2016. Unfortunately nobody backed out and we were not able to present our talk about building a successful cloud environment. Attached find our presentation. The presentation will walk you through the journey of what you will have… Read More »A Recipe to Build a Successful Cloud Environment: Stop Thinking Legacy, Think Cloud!

CloudForms smart state analysis preparation for VSphere 6.0

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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… Read More »CloudForms smart state analysis preparation for VSphere 6.0

Container Metrics And Introspection With CloudForms 4.0 And OpenShift 3.1 – Updated for OpenShift 3.2 and CF 4.1

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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… Read More »Container Metrics And Introspection With CloudForms 4.0 And OpenShift 3.1 – Updated for OpenShift 3.2 and CF 4.1

16 steps to a fully high available Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment with ceph build by OSP Director 7.1

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This post is going to walk you through a full HA Network isolated Red Hat OpenStack installation with 3 Controllers, 3 Compute and 3 Ceph OSD nodes in only 16 simple steps. To be successful with this deployment you will have to follow this network diagram (create the trunks and vlans on the switch) and… Read More »16 steps to a fully high available Red Hat OpenStack Platform environment with ceph build by OSP Director 7.1

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7 director (OSP director) cli simple install part 2

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Part 2 of the blog series will show you how you can register the nodes to your OSP director via command line create flavors and deploy a simple non HA OpenStack environment. 1. To register the blades I created the following json file. Please keep in mind that if you use hp blades with ilo2… Read More »Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7 director (OSP director) cli simple install part 2