3 Steps Beyond

I thought I would write a post about using Subversion (SVN)  with PowerCLI for managing changes to Infrastructure, with the aim of reducing report emails in my inbox, and reduce the amount of storage space required to store a set … Continue reading →The post Using Subversion with PowerCLI for vCentre operations appeared first on Matt Palmers Blog [...]

So, the time came where I needed to knock up a quick subversion DavSVN test on a box that was out of support for updates from SuSE, which made it more difficult to grab the rpms,etc that I would need … Continue reading →The post Building Subversion and DavSVN on SLES 11 SP2 x86_64 from source appeared first on Matt [...]

This post will detail the steps to go through to allow you to create storage level snapshots using DELL EqualLogic ASM/LE on Linux SLES 11 SP2, and then move the data off onto other storage arrays. – This is handy … Continue reading →The post Backups using storage level snapshots for DB2 using EqualLogic appeared first on Matt Palmers Blog [...]

Just a quick post… I knocked this one-liner up as a lazy way of finding out what addresses will answer a ping on a particular address range. I used the ‘seq’ command in Linux to produce the address numbers from … Continue reading →The post Simple bash one-liner to ping an entire network range appeared first on Matt Palmers Blog [...]

I wanted to be able to setup something along the lines of a Linux Terminal server, to allow remote users the ability to execute long running jobs without the need to have any applications locally on their machines, or stay … Continue reading →The post Integrating LDAP support into XRDP on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS appeared first on Matt Palmers Blog [...]

Having problems with YaST wiping out your custom PAM setting for DB2 since upgrading to SLES 11 SP2?? This is a short post detailing a problem I found with the YaST method of managing manual pam/ldap configuration under SLES 11 … Continue reading →The post DB2 LDAP configuration on SLES11 SP2 appeared first on Matt Palmers Blog [...]

I thought I would share some of my thoughts on how I have seen our server and storage platforms evolve over time. What I loved about them, what I hated about them, where I am at today and what made … Continue reading →The post A Tale of Corporate Storage Evolution – switching from HP to DELL appeared first [...]

This is a quick post detailing a very quick/dirty script I knocked up using snmpwalk to probe my QSAN P300Q-D212 iSCSI SAN. The reason behind it was because during a RAIDset rebuild or long running operation it seemed to take … Continue reading →The post QSAN Storage Array Status bash shellscript appeared first on Matt Palmers Blog [...]

This is a quick blog post going over the steps needed to run Thoroughbred BASIC on Amazons EC2 platform, purely as proof of concept using the 30 day Eval available on the installation media. I wanted to see if it … Continue reading →The post Running Thoroughbred BASIC on Amazon EC2 appeared first on Matt Palmers Blog [...]

I finally got around to testing running opensuse on AWS!! To begin with I started by using SuSEstudio and plumbing in my EC2 credentials and getting the SuSEstudio platform to push the AMI to S3 for me and run from … Continue reading →The post Creating a custom Linux OpenSuSE 11 EC2 S3 Backed AMI using Kiwi appeared first [...]

I’ve written the following post as it took me a while to figure out how to get SLES Linux File based restore from within a VMDK on ESXi. By default there is support for Debian Guest and RedHat, There is … Continue reading →The post Configuring ESXi VDR FLR on SuSE Linux SLES 11 x86_64 appeared first on Matt Palmers [...]

I wrote the following quick shellscript to migrate a load of user accounts from HPUX to Linux. At the moment it doesnt do anything with existing home directories,as I will use a backup and restore process to manage this. For … Continue reading →The post HPUX to SLES Linux user account converter script appeared first on Matt Palmers Blog [...]

I found that I needed to clone some legacy servers recently whilst they are scheduled for application updates,etc. So in the short term needed to reclaim the hardware they were on as it was nearly 10 years old! I followed … Continue reading →The post Virtualizing Legacy SuSE 8 Guests on ESXi appeared first on Matt Palmers Blog [...]

I found the following status update on Linux.com, hope things are back up soon guys…   Linux Foundation infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, … Continue reading →

To begin with a bit of background on the environment may be helpful… The need to virtualize my HP C7000 blade environment came from a requirement to consolidate our comms room estate, and retire out legacy hardware and achieve as … Continue reading →

I decided to write the following post after having some problems getting iSCSI connectivity to work correctly with a Dell EQL PS6500 Array with RedHat 6. It seems that Dell have done a great job in getting the Host Integration … Continue reading →

This quick article has been written and assumes that you are using either the evaluation or a fully licenced copy of ESXi. as VIX will only run (fully functionally) on a 60 day evaluation or fully licensed ESXi server. Also, … Continue reading →

I thought I would post up a couple of the freebies I bought back from the Amazon AWS Summit in London this year. There were some really great speakers there and it was good to hear some real world success … Continue reading →

Following on from my post on how to create an S3 backed custom AMI for AWS EC2, I thought I would jot down the steps to go through if you wanted to make use of persistent disk storage by using Amazon’s Elastic Block Storage (EBS). In my recipe I decided to use as a base

I thought I would put up the article that the Kentish Express wrote about me in their Business section, it covers my inclusion in a Linux Format magazine article on the Linux Foundation, and the Linux Community and Free and Open Source Software, and the annual Linux.com competition for the ‘Best Linux Guru’s’ worldwide which