Category: Linux

Reset Red Hat Linux Enterprise root password (lost roor 0_0?) 0

Reset Red Hat Linux Enterprise root password (lost roor 0_0?)

I had a request from a customer on this, and the procedure is fairy simple and breaks down to this: Reboot the current system. When presented on the boot screen (hit any key to...

Migrating from HP EVA to HP 3PAR – Quick Notes 2

Migrating from HP EVA to HP 3PAR – Quick Notes

I’ve been dealing with a lot of 3PAR lately and hopefully the hereunder notes will be beneficial for you when going for the EVA to 3PAR Online Import, I am assuming you already have...

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why? 0

vSphere 5.x Tip To Toe: VSA Appliance root access! Why?

Sometimes you get odd requests from customers but usually they have a valid argument, in this case a customer had an intelligent UPS which performs a soft shutdown of the virtual machines in case...

Install HP Smart Update Manager (SUM) on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 2

Install HP Smart Update Manager (SUM) on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6

So this is one of the times that you can’t remotely install the latest drivers and firmware updates to a Linux host remotely, the work around is to install the HP SUM server on...

Configuring VMware AutoDeploy Feature 1

Configuring VMware AutoDeploy Feature

AutoDeploy is a new feature of VMware vSphere 5.0 and it’s the most efficient way to provision a new server as as ESXi 5.0 box, along this guide I’ll be configuring AutoDeploy and I’ll...