Over the years, I have taken (and given) a lot of training. I’ve had self-paced tutorials (printed and electronic), in-person lectures, hand-on labs, small groups, formal classes, one-on-one tutoring, and virtual instructor led training (VILT). I’ve seen two distinct types of VILT – good and bad. I have yet to see any “ok” training. It’s …
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certifications and dependencies
Last week I participated in a beta class for HP’s new Cloud Service Automation 3.0 product release (ok, so it’s a prerelease, and “product” is a strong term). 3.0 is a full rewrite from 2.x, so there is no upgrade path. Also, not everything that “appears” to be in place OOB is actually working – …
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gee, thanks red hat, amd, and vmware
At least the publicly-searchable knowledge base had something. I tried searching for “Kernel panic – not syncing: Fatal Exception” and “RIP” and “cpuid4_cache_lookup”. And wouldn’t you know it! There’s a known issue if you try to install RHEL >5.4 x64 on ESXi 4.x if it’s running on AMD 6000 series CPUs. Guess what – we’re …
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mounting a cd in an rhel6 vm
Most typically in the past, I have seen mounts for CDs in RHEL work thusly: mount /dev/hdc /mnt In RHEL6 you need to do the following: mount /dev/sr0 /mnt I’d really like to know why Red Hat made the change, but knowing is useful 🙂
vmware tools can be quietly installed
Came across this little gem recently: /path/to/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl –default EULA_AGREED=yes That’s been a life saver a lot recently 🙂