If problems occur while starting the Open Source Architecture Daemons the issue can have multiple problem causes. This service is used amongst others in combination with Spacewalk, Red Hat Satellite, or SUSE Manager to push configuration jobs or software packages.

The following problem causes are possible:

• The …

When it is necessary to share files between multiple devices and persons OwnCloud is a good alternative for Dropbox.

The open-source software that also supports WebDAV can also be installed on a managed web server - for this purpose the project offers a installation script which is transfered to the server using FTP: …

To keep contacts and calendars up-to-date between multiple devices well-known cloud services like Apple iCloud or the Google services are often used.

It's no doubt that this is a very comfortable solution - but in my opinion you shouldn't place trust in public cloud services. I personally avoid cloud services and try …

VMware released a new version of the famous ESXi Hypervisor one month ago.

This tops VMware's portfolio off after the products Fusion, Player and Workstation already were updated in september.

Some technichal enhancements of the new version:

• dropped 32 GB host memory limitation - (a minimum of 4 GB memory is required …

If you're having issues with configuring Active Directory authentification in VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.5 you might want to have a look at the following log file: /var/log/vmware/vpx/vpxd_cfg.log

Ideally access this file using tail -f before saving the Active Directory configuration to see error messages …

While creating a VMFS storage I received the following error yesterday:

1Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "xxx.xxx.xxx.xx" failed.

First I thought the freshly created logical drive on my HP RAID contorller had a failure - but this …

If you want to create a screenshot of your HP-UX system and don't have GIMP installed, you can easily create a X dump using the xwd commandos. This X dump can be converted into a JPG file (or some other picture format) on another machine using XnView.

After executing the xwd command simply click on the window for the …