Category Archives: How to

Deploy GitHub’s Hubot for Slack automatically with Travis CI and CloudFoundry – Part 2

Posted on February 23, 2015 by

As you saw in Part 1 of this howto we now have a GitHub Hubot up and running on CloudFoundry, pretty cool! But let’s see if we can manage it in a more automated way, how about automatically deploying a new version … Continue reading →

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Deploy GitHub’s Hubot for Slack automatically with Travis CI and CloudFoundry – Part 1

Posted on February 18, 2015 by

GitHub has created a really interesting bot called Hubot that can be used for many different things. It can connect to a multitude of different services such as IRC, Slack, HipChat, Twitter, and a lot more. Once it is there it … Continue reading →

Posted in Automation, ChatOps, CloudFoundry, How to, Hubot, Installation, IT Transformation, Pivotal, Slack | 1 Comment

Server locality using Razor and LLDP

Posted on September 12, 2014 by

Recently I had a discussion with a great customer where they wondered if there was a smart and automated way of deploying operating systems together with applications. Of course, I said, you can use Razor and Puppet for those things. However, they wanted a … Continue reading →

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How to create a Panamax template for really cool Docker management

Posted on September 8, 2014 by

My last post about Panamax showed how to get started quickly with it in OS X, now let’s go ahead and look at why Panamax is an awesome tool and showcase one of it’s main strengths; Templates! If you look at … Continue reading →

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Simple how-to install Panamax Docker management on OS X

Posted on August 12, 2014 by

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 practices in the background, providing a friendly interface for users … Continue reading →

Posted in Automation, Docker, Homebrew, Homebrew Cask, How to, Installation, Panamax, Vagrant, VirtualBox | 1 Comment

Summary: High performance Splunk with VMware on top of EMC ScaleIO and Isilon

Posted on June 23, 2014 by

I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage together with Splunk. The results of … Continue reading →

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Add a local vSphere ESXi user without using the vSphere GUI

Posted on April 9, 2014 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Automate a ScaleIO lab setup with Vagrant and VirtualBox

Posted on December 6, 2013 by

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, right? Awesome! … Continue reading →

Posted in Automation, EMC, Experiment, How to, Installation, ScaleIO | Tagged | 15 Comments

Increasing and measuring the performance of your ScaleIO environment

Posted on November 28, 2013 by

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 see what … Continue reading →

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How to install ScaleIO in a VMware environment – Part 2

Posted on November 19, 2013 by

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 two common ways … Continue reading →

Posted in Converged Infrastructure, EMC, How to, Installation, ScaleIO, VMware, vSphere5 | 7 Comments