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Add an additional network interface on RHEV virtual machines

Similar to the previous post on how to add additional disks for existing virtual machines running on RHEV, this article describes how to add additional network interfaces to …

Posted by cjung on Fri, Aug 5, 2016

Add an additional disk on RHEV virtual machines

I was working on a script to add additional disks to existing virtual machines running on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV). I did find some code original written by Eduardo …

Posted by cjung on Fri, Aug 5, 2016

Orchestrating OpenShift Enterprise with ManageIQ

A nice post on how to scale OpenShift Applications with ManageIQ OpenShift Enterprise with ManageIQ).

Posted by cjung on Fri, Jun 3, 2016

How to provision Azure workloads with CloudForms

Just found this very good video demonstration on how to provision workloads on Microsoft Azure with CloudForms. Check out the site for other good video demonstrations too.

Posted by cjung on Mon, Feb 22, 2016

Memory errors when provisioning VM from template in RHEV

If you’re provisioning from a template which is stored in RHEV, you might ran into the following error (found in evm.log): …

Posted by cjung on Wed, Feb 10, 2016

Create Snapshots for a Service in OpenStack

Based on the script to create snapshots for OpenStack instances, this version provides similar functionality for service items. It iterates through the list of instances belonging …

Posted by cjung on Thu, Dec 17, 2015

Create Snapshots in OpenStack

One of my first experiments using the Ruby fog library. ManageIQ or CloudForms can currently not create snapshots for OpenStack instances. With a custom button and a method …

Posted by cjung on Thu, Dec 17, 2015

Execute commands with RbVmomi

One way to execute remote commands on a running VMware VM is by using RbVmomi. It’s a Ruby wrapper for VMware’s SOAP API. RvVmomi is not installed on the appliance by …

Posted by cjung on Thu, Dec 17, 2015

Sharing information between service catalog items

In case of a deployment of an multi tiered application, it is often necessary to store information which was generated while provisioning the first VM, so it can be retrieved …

Posted by cjung on Thu, Dec 17, 2015

The definite guide to CloudForms and ManageIQ

If you’re looking for a good book about CloudForms and ManageIQ, check this one out. CloudForms & ManageIQ Automation How-To Guide It has all the gory details about …

Posted by cjung on Mon, Oct 5, 2015