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Minio – 100% S3 compatible, free, open-source, object-based storage now ready for prime time!

AB of Gluster fame, is off working on another kick-butt storage project. Again, its in the Software Defined Storage realm, this time its called Minio! A play on the minimal-io phrase/mindset. Written in go, the focus is a simple, easy to deploy and use 100% S3 compatible, object based storage platform.

I talked about this project here, nearly two years ago when the project was just initially…

SSH Key Mapping for AD Users authenticating against an IPA trust

Under IPA Server > ID Views > Default Trust View, add the LDAP user you want to override with POSIX settings.

Then add the SSH public key to the user:

Installing IPA on RHEL 7 and utilizing an Active Directory Trust

This document is dependent on the following assumptions:

NetBIOS names of the IPA domain and AD domain must be different.

In addtion, NetBIOS names of the IPA server and AD DC server must be different.

Encoredev.local is the AD domain

encoredev1.encoredev.local will host this domain and associated DNS

Linux.local is the IPA domain

ipa1.linux.local will host this domain and associated DNS records

Using Puppet to manage virt-who to map virtual guests to physical hosts in Satellite 6.1

The virt-who package allows you to map virtual machines to the physical host so that you can take advantage of RedHat Virtual Data Center licensing when using Satellite 6.1. It allows you to use your Hypervisor Host (in this case VMware ESXi) as a content host within Satellite. Therefore allowing you to assign RHEL licenses to the hosts directly, rather than individually on the virtual machine.

T…

Encore Technologies Datacenter Progress – Ceiling is up!

Every week brings major progress on the data center build out. This week the first ceiling went in, most of the drywall in the main room was finished and the sub-floor was sealed.

Check out the latest time lapse video!

vBeers – Columbus, OH (Thursday, March 10th, 2016)

Wolf’s Ridge Tap Room

Please join us for the March 2016 edition of Columbus vBeers. We are returning to Wolf’s Ridge Tap Room. The Tap Room is located at the rear of the building on the corner of Lazelle & Hickory Streets. Stop by to enjoy a brew and some techie conversation. Please take a moment to register for this event here.

Location: Wolf’s Ridge Brewing Address: 215 N 4th Street, Columbus,…

vBeers – Columbus, OH (Thursday, February 4th 2016)

Time for our first meetup of 2016. Join us for a couple of firsts. Our first visit to Zauber Brewing Company and a first time sponsor. LANDESK Software is graciously sponsoring us. LANDESK Software provides systems management, security management, service management, asset management, and process management solutions.

  Join us for an evening of creating connections and building your network in a…

Windows Server 2012 R2 SNMP Configuration using PowerShell

We needed to update the SNMP configuration script to take parameters so that we could pass this through CloudForms, our cloud management platform. Below you’ll find the PowerShell script that we came up with.

#Usage ./2012_configure_snmp.ps1 -ro ro123123 -rw rw123433 -ips 10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2,10.124.1.3 param ( [string]$ro, [string]$rw, [string[]]$ips, [string]$location ) #$sysLocation = $location…