What’s new in VIOS 2.2.4.10 and PowerVM : Part 1 Virtual I/O Server Rules
I will post a series of mini blog posts about new features of PowerVM and Virtual I/O Server that are release this month. By this I mean Hardware Management Console 840 + Power firmware 840 + Virtual...
View ArticleNovaLink ‘HMC Co-Management’ and PowerVC 1.3.0.1Dynamic Resource Optimizer
Everybody now knows that I’m using PowerVC a lot in my current company. My environment is growing bigger and bigger and we are now managing more than 600 virtual machines with PowerVC (the goal is to...
View ArticleWhat’s new in VIOS 2.2.4.10 and PowerVM : Part 2 Shared Processor Pool weighting
First of all before beginning this blog post I owe you an explanation about these two months without new posts. These two months were very busy. On the personal side I was forced to move from my...
View ArticleContinuous integration for your Chef AIX cookbooks (using PowerVC, Jenkins,...
My Journey to integrate Chef on AIX is still going on and I’m working more than ever on these topics. I know that using such tools is not something widely adopted by AIX customers. But what I also know...
View ArticleEnhance your AIX packages management with yum and nim over http
As AIX is getting older and older our old favorite OS is still trying to struggle versus the mighty Linux and the fantastic Solaris (no sarcasm in that sentence I truly believe what I say). You may...
View ArticlePutting NovaLink in Production & more PowerVC (1.3.1.2) tips and tricks
I’ve been quite busy and writing the blog is getting to be more and more difficult with the amount of work I have but I try to stick to my thing as writing these blogs posts is almost the only thing I...
View Articlepvcctl : Using python Openstack api to code a PowerVC command line |...
The world is changing fast, especially regarding sysadmin jobs and skills. Everybody has noticed that being a good sysadmin now implies two things. The first one is “being a good dev”. Not just someone...
View ArticleUnleash the true potential of SRIOV vNIC using vNIC failover !
I’m always working on tight schedule, I never have the time to write documentation because we’re moving fast, very fast … but not as fast as I want to ;-). A few months ago we were asked to put the TSM...
View ArticleRunning Docker on PowerSystems using Ubuntu and Redhat ppc64le (docker,...
Every blog post that I read since a couple of months are mentioning Docker, that’s a fact ! I’ve never been so stressed since years because our jobs are changing. That is not my choice or my will but...
View ArticleBuilding a “Docker Swarm as a Service” infrastructure on ppc64le Linux (w/...
First of all to avoid any ambiguity I first have to say that none of this work is the result of something that have been asked to me on my work place. This piece of work was done during my after hours...
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