Automatically provisioning baremetal/VM server
During my endavours I had a situation where I had to provision 10 servers (install all of them manually and configure same things on all of them, same files etc). There is a nice alternative to it called Stacki from StackIQ (bought by Teradata last year). What it offers is specia…
Kill a hanging machine in VMware ESXi
It might not be possible to kill a “running” (in reality hanging) VM from Vcenter GUI or using vSphere Client. In such situation a login via SSH to ESXi host is needed, list all VMs and kill the appropriate one. esxcli vm process list esxcli vm process kill PROCESS_ID
Connecting over SSH and running a command over NETCONF
When HW/virtualized/containerized network element offers NETCONF interface to manage, it is extremely beneficial to use it for repetitive tasks (upgrades, sanity checking, route table checking etc). NETCONF can be used over different transports as below: netconf-ssh 830/tcp …