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Removing vCloud Agent from ESX(i) host

September 4, 2011 / Martijn / 0 Comments

When you’re like me, you just go ahead and install stuff without taking the time to read if the software you’re installing can be upgraded later. Dive head first. 😉

Often with beta software, an upgrade path to a release build is lacking or problematic. Same goes for vCloud Director 1.5 beta to the release build of 1.5. When I upgraded to the release build, I did so without ‘Unpreparing’ the ESXi hosts that were being used by vCloud Director. That causes some problems when you want to link a new vCloud Director to these ESXi hosts, as the vCloud … Read more

Enabling IPv6 on a Cisco ME3400

August 27, 2011 / Martijn / 0 Comments

For some reason a Cisco ME3400 doesn’t have both IPv4 and IPv6 routing enabled. Still wondering why, but this is how you enable it:

conf t
sdm prefer dual-ipv4-and-ipv6 routing
exit
wr mem
reload

VMware vCloud Director SSL certificates

August 24, 2011 / Martijn / 0 Comments

vCloud Director uses a java keystore to read its SSL certificates from. This makes it a bit more complicated to use an existing certificate and private key set. Took me a while to figure out, so I’m sharing.

In this example I created /opt/vmware/keystore for the certificate files. The ssl-key.pem and ssl-cert.pem are the existing certificate files. Furthermore, I used ‘passed’ as the keystore and alias password. (needed for the vCD configuration)

Firstly, we need to convert the key and certificate to a DER format:

[[email protected] keystore]# export PATH=$PATH:/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/jre/bin
[[email protected] keystore]# openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -in ssl-key.pem -inform PEM -out

Dynamic Images

October 15, 2009 / Martijn / 0 Comments

WhatPulse really benefited from the WSI (WhatPulse Signature Images) services, which I kinda missed when it went down. I’ve been working on a replacement tied directly to WhatPulse the last few weeks, and it’s ready for a beta. Check: http://forums.whatpulse.org/showthread.php?t=5254

Another Snow Leopard issue – Juniper’s Network Connect

October 14, 2009 / Martijn / 0 Comments

Another Snow Leopard issue; Juniper’s Network Connect application (from the great Secure Access series) wouldn’t work anymore. It started, but when connecting, it gave the very descriptive error: “Cannot connect!”

Hidden away in the Juniper forums I found the solution:

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/juniper/nc/6.4.0/
sudo mkdir '/Applications/Network Connect.app/Contents/Frameworks'

6.4.0 being your local version.

Snow Leopard upgrade – iPod gone?

October 12, 2009 / Martijn / 0 Comments

I’ve enjoyed the new release of Snow Leopard for a while now, but just attached my iPod nano for the first time. Darn thing didn’t seem to want to show up in iTunes. It did it Finder, so there wasn’t anything wrong with a cable or the iPod itself.

Google/apple’s support-site didn’t say quite a lot about it, but I found the solution: Pop your Snow Leopard DVD back in your player and start the ‘Optional’ installer. You can select ‘iPod Support’ in there. Once the installer is done, restart iTunes and reattach the iPod. It is now back in … Read more

How cool is this.

August 7, 2009 / Martijn / 0 Comments

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Removing vCloud Agent from ESX(i) host

Enabling IPv6 on a Cisco ME3400

VMware vCloud Director SSL certificates

Dynamic Images

Another Snow Leopard issue – Juniper’s Network Connect

Snow Leopard upgrade – iPod gone?

How cool is this.


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