IBM Installation Manager on RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 x86_64

To solve the error # ./install -bash: ./install: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory and the font display error when IBM Installation Manager is started, you need to install following packages with yum. yum install gtk2.i686 libXtst.i686 dejavu-sans-fonts

Solaris 11 manual IPv4 & IPv6 configuration

Wooow… lot’s of changes ! Today I downloaded the brand new Oracle Solaris 11 operating system and started to install it into a VirtualBox virtual machine. Automatic network configuration is a very nice feature, but I’m a „Old-School“ guy and I prefer the manual configuration. 😉 So I tried to setup a valid network configuration […]

Follow me on Facebook

Parallel to my blog, I decided to create a Facebook page. I want to use Facebook to post current actitivties similar to Twitter, but without limitation. 😉 Link to Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tschokko.de

HP BladeSystem C3000

Say Hello to Shorty ! 🙂 Shorty is running an Ubuntu OpenStack Cloud Computing environment. It is connected to a MSA2012fc storage system and a ProCurve 5406zl modular network switch. The 10 GbE uplink to the 10 GbE 4-port module is prepared, but the CX4 X2 module is missing to complete the connection. I will […]

One step towards Converged Infrastructure

I know my blog is very silent since several weeks. But I have lot’s of work and of course a daughter.;) As you can imagine I have some new ideas for my home lab. 😉 And one is very exciting ! I started to rethink and rebuild my HP blade environment. Yesterday a new toy […]

Preparing the rebuild of my home lab!

Lot’s of time passed since my last posting. But now I will continue blogging about my home lab. Some months ago I moved my neccessary systems to a HP MicroServer, because the running costs of a real server are enormous! After I finished setup my new home network, I decided to change the entire networking […]

[Offtopic] My new car: Audi S4

8 years ago I drove a very powerful car. It was an Opel Calibra 4×4 Turbo with a modified engine and I think about 260 horse power. This car was exciting and fun! But I have to give it away, because my budget at this time was too less to maintenance this car. But I […]

That’s cool! Get AppGate for free

Yeahh… I’m using AppGate since several times for accessing a customers management network. I like this way of accessing management systems and I wanted to introduce AppGate at work. But the license was too expensive for our small network. Today we talked again about a dedicated management network at work. Just for fun I browsed […]

My first experience with IBM Power blades and AIX

It’s done. I have a running IBM BladeCenter-based Power server environment with a current release of AIX and VIOS. At the beginning I had some problems, but the IBM world was entirely new for me. 😉 But after I get my NIMOL (NIM on Linux) server with VIOS 2.2 image up and running, it was […]

Say „Hallo“ to my HP MicroServer

As mentioned in my previous blog, I started to rebuild my necessary home systems. Last year I was running some servers in my home lab, but my power bill was a shock! I decided to replace everything with a HP MicroServer. Since two months my HP MicroServer is doing a very good job. 🙂 It’s […]