A while ago Alex (so_solid_moo to the IRC channel) created a php binding for the Bongo API. He also created the start of the new UI that we are working towards. We started with the admin ui for now as we have created a user interface with the roundcube project that Alex also integrated with. I stared porting the …

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This is an account of Thursday the 29th of September 2011 when my cynical view on Londoners only thinking of themselves and not wanting to get involved with other peoples troubles was blown completely out of the water thanks to some really amazing people who I don't have names for but would really love to thank from …

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I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues. The current vcenter has a few custom attributes and notes that would not be transferred as part of the move. So I wanted to use powercli to read the attributes out and put them back. To export the …

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This blog is a follow on from a blog post I wrote ages ago and have eventually got round to finishing it off In this part of the process we will create the disks and setup the DRBD devices First we need to connect to the Virtual Machines from a terminal session as it makes life much easier and quicker when you connect …

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I was struggling with an install of ESXi on a cisco 6509 switch where the management and VM LAN connectivity worked just fine but for some reason the SAN NFS VLAN just did not want to communicate with the Nexenta on that VLAN. After some searching and trial and error I was able to utilise this post …

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I am busy working on a contract with a company that is implementing a 10G network for their ESX cluster. We have been using extreme X650 10G copper switches for the core. Migrating the current servers to the 10G environment was relatively easy and went with minimal issues. Over the last 2 weeks I have been trying to …

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This post should have been written quite a while ago as I wanted to start documenting my efforts to learn to program using Ruby. As most of you know I have been trying for a while to teach myself to program. I started my efforts with a course in c# at a company in London, the course was just great and the instructor …

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The Bongo-Project needs to be renamed Now before you fall of your chair or swallow your phone while reading this let me explain why. I have been wanting to create this post for sometime now and have been holding off as we are almost ready for our 1.0 release. The problem I have is that even if we released a new version …

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Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD To create this cluster you will need 2 ubuntu node servers installed as follows. I am creating this cluster inside of vMware so I created 2 VM's with: 1GB RAM 1 10GB hdd for the root (/) partition. 1 20GB hdd for the database store. I downloaded the ubuntu 9.10 …

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I have for some time now been wondering how many people actually use Bongo. The reason for this is that we have had images available for a while and I am still non the wiser as to how many people actually use them. I faithfully spend hours and hours building packages and getting them out the door but have no markers to …

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