Trying out Arch Linux on a Lenovo T400! First step after getting the T400 Dual Core Centrino 2.26GHz 4GB RAM: replace the 160GB spinning rust to a 120GB Samsung 840. Very easy to take out the old disk and put the new SSD in the carrier. https://wiki.archlinux …

https://command.io is up for public beta now. It is a page from where you can manage your servers online in a pretty web interface. It uses ssh - you need to allow commando.io's server to ssh into your server. You can specify with which user, which port and …

For training these I set up networks. Many. Drawing the networks first in LibreOffice Draw and then setting them up with virtual machine templates and LAN segments. The exam I took in October and because it was a beta exam the results aren't out until December :) The BCvRP has the …

Been checking out the Vyatta vRouter a bit closer. Mostly because of the BCvRE exam but I'm slowly starting to think there might be some benefits to using it elsewhere too. See vyatta-a-routervpnfirewall-in-a-vm-brocade-certified-vrouter-engineer/ for where to find manuals or training materials. See the objectives. I tried installing Vyatta vRouter 6 …

This post will be continuously updated with my short notes under each concept. It's not meant to be a replacement of the official training materials. I'm just starting out playing with the vRouter Core / open source version and installing it in a VM and set up some networks and firewalls …

Brocade has a beta exam up for BCVRE - Certified vRouter Engineer - which is on the Vyatta software from the company with the same name that Brocade bought last year. There is the free open source core. Download from here: http://vyatta.org/downloads (no you don't have to register). The …

Yay I passed the EX436 Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management ! https://www.redhat.com/wapps/training/certification/verify.html?certNumber=111-207-403&isSearch=False&verify=Verify

Post 1 - https://www.guldmyr.com/red-hat-clustering-and-storage-management-course-objectives/ Where I checked out udev, multipathing, iscsi, LVM and xfs. This post is about getting using luci/ricci to get a Red Hat cluster working, but not on a RHEL machine because sadly I do not have one available for practice purposes. So …

Attending "Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management" in August. Quite a few of these technologies I haven't touched upon before so probably best to go through them before the course. Initially I wonder how many of these are Red Hat specific, or how many of these I can accomplish …

This week in the SDN course on coursera there were lots of examples of real use of SDN stuff, for example like the B4 WAN by Google. They got a really interesting and cool interview with the Network Lead at Google - Amin Vahdat. And! They actually put this interview up …