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How to get started with Razor and Puppet – Part 4
Please read the comments, updates there! Razor has gotten a CLI and API update, making some of the commands shown here not work correctly. If you come across something that doesn’t work, please look...
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How to get started with Razor and Puppet – Part 5
Please read the comments, updates there! Razor has gotten a CLI and API update, making some of the commands shown here not work correctly. If you come across something that doesn’t work, please look...
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Automating lighttpd installations with Puppet – Part 1
The time has come to move further in our Automation series, now that we’re pretty much done with the “physical” provisioning part using Razor. One of the first things I’d like to share with you is how...
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Automating lighttpd installations with Puppet – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we configured our puppetmaster to make sure that our nodes would get an installation of lighttpd up and running quickly. Now to get a smarter environment where you don’t have...
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Deploying VMware ESXi on your HP MicroServer automatically with Razor
Also posted on Simon Seagrave’s Techhead.co. Razor is a cool new deployment tool for your entire server infrastructure. It’s has been and is still being developed as a joint venture between EMC and...
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Install VMware ESXi 5.1 automatically using Razor
Once again, Razor comes to the rescue for all of you who’d like to automate the installations of VMware ESXi 5.1 that was just publically released. If you already have a Razor environment up and...
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Automating lighttpd installations with Puppet – Part 3
If you’ve followed through the two earlier parts found here and here, you should now have a basic installation of lighttpd installed on your node, together with a nice small Puppet module that you’ve...
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VMworld Barcelona recommended agenda – Wednesday
Hope all of you enjoyed the start of VMworld yesterday, and that you’re ready for another full day of awesome sessions, exhibitions and labs! Not sure which sessions to focus on today? I’m sure you...
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Managing Razor provisioning with Puppet – Part 1
If you’ve gone through the tutorials on how to get started with Razor and Puppet that I’ve posted earlier (see here for the first part of five) you should have a Razor and Puppet installation already...
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Managing Razor provisioning with Puppet – Part 2
So we went through Puppet configuration of deploying a functional Razor installation in the first part here. Now let’s look into how we can get Puppet to manage our Razor environment, namely models,...
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Installing Rasplex on a Raspberry Pi – SCART and HDMI
This is something quite different from the normal content here at pureVirtual, but I thought I’d share my success story on how to get Rasplex on a Raspberry Pi to work over both SCART and HDMI. From...
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LeapMotion unboxing and quick review
Today I got a really nice surprise when I got to the office, our LeapMotion devices had been delivered! Yes, I ordered eight of them and no, not all are for me LeapMotion is a small and incredible...
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Help! There’s a yellow elephant in my server room!
Picture taken from our EMC Durham Datacenterhttp://smma.com/project/mission-critical/emc-durham-cloud-data-center That could be what’s on an admin’s mind during their first try to deploy Hadoop. It’s...
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How to install ScaleIO in a VMware environment – Part 1
About a week ago, ScaleIO 1.2 was released and it’s been very well received by existing customers and curious newcomers. If you are of the latter, I think you’ll like this post as we’ll go through how...
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How to install ScaleIO in a VMware environment – Part 2
To continue our setup of ScaleIO, we’ll need to go through the full installation using the files and scripts you’ve already copied over to the ScaleIO VMs in the previous part of this how to. There are...
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Increasing and measuring the performance of your ScaleIO environment
This post is a followup to the ScaleIO how to posts that have been posted here and here. Now that you have your ScaleIO environment up and running after following the posts above, of course you want to...
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Microsoft SQL server testing with ScaleIO on VMware
What ScaleIO is and how it works has been covered in earlier blog posts here, here, here and here, and this post is a follow-up with some of the performance testing we did with Microsoft SQL server on...
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Automate a ScaleIO lab setup with Vagrant and VirtualBox
If you’ve read the other blog posts on ScaleIO you might be interested in running it yourself. However, you might not have your own hardware lab to run it on, but you do have a laptop or desktop,...
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Add a local vSphere ESXi user without using the vSphere GUI
So while hacking away at a demo I wanted to create a local user on my vSphere ESXi box, and got frustrated that according to all the documentation out there I had to use the vSphere GUI (or vicfg) to...
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Simple how-to install Panamax Docker management on OS X
Panamax was released publicly earlier today, and I think it’s a really cool tool for managing, controlling and connecting Docker containers in a simple and efficient way. Panamax uses Docker best...
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