The following vmware power-cli script is handy to quickly show you which VM's on a given host / container server are powered off. get-vm -location container-host.domain.com | ?{$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOff"} …
Preparing a keystore for vCloud Director 5.1 with your own SSL certificate
In order to install VMware's vCloud Director, you need to prepare certificates for us with the application. I ran into some challenges in getting my custom certificate into the vCloud Director keystore so I wanted to share how I did that. To do this you should have a valid signed SSL certificate, …
Save Yourself a Trip to the Post Office, Send Your Valentine a Card with Paperless Post
As Valentine’s Day approaches and you start thinking about mailing that special someone a card, think again… Our client Paperless Post (http://www.paperlesspost.com) offers a unique online alternative to the traditional experience of sending and receiving holiday cards, as well as a variety of …
IPv6 at Atlantic Metro
A common topic of discussion for a number of years has been the exhaustion of IPv4 address space and the future of the Internet with IPv6. As of February 3, 2011, the available pool of IPv4 addresses has been allocated. The well has run dry. Luckily this was predicted long ago (IPv6 was first …
Multiple includes with Cisco IOS
I have found it quite useful in the past to use multiple includes when searching for information on Cisco IOS devices. Recently, I noticed a customer who had a port down in a port-channel. I then wanted to know what other port-channels had only 1 member, indicating something was down. For something …
Improve Email Workflow with Google Apps
Hello! If you're like me, a scatterbrain, you frequently have thoughts pop in an out of your head and have a troubling time managing them. One solution that I've been able to concoct using a little bit of Google Apps trickery and Labs features, is to use the 'Multiple Inboxes' plugin, in conjunction …
Don’t be lazy, make your own local yum repo…
So I often log into CentOS/RHEL servers and discover that there are tons of custom RPMs installed that were just downloaded from random places. While I understand that sometimes you just need to get things done, please just create your yum repo somewhere and install from there. You’ll thank me later …
Atlantic Metro Communications and Rainbow Broadband Partner
Atlantic Metro Communications and Rainbow Broadband Partner to Offer Fully Diverse, Business-Class Broadband in the New York Metro Market Atlantic Metro Communications, a managed Internet Service Provider (ISP) offering colocation, metro transport, dark fiber, IP bandwidth, managed hosting & …
What is 95th percentile billing?
It has come to the attention of Atlantic Metro Communications staff that some of our competitors have so called "shady" bandwidth billing practices. We won't get into naming names or divulging the practices they employ to over charge you once you are hooked up to their service and bound by a …
