Category: Novell

NSS on LVM

By default is you create a NSS pool or volume, these are management by EVMS. EVMS is a disk manager original developed by IBM. This is a quote about EVMS from the sourceforge website The Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) Project has the goal of providing unparalleled flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. It represents [...]

Tuesday July 20th, 2010 in Novell | Comments Off

openSUSE 11.3 is out!

Just a quick copy/paste action from the opensuse.org site: openSUSE 11.3 is finally out! The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.3. openSUSE 11.3 includes new versions of GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, the Linux kernel, and many, many more updates and improvements. In 11.3 you’ll find more than 1,000 open source [...]

Monday July 19th, 2010 in Novell | Comments Off

Novellcongres.nl presentation: OES2 on vSphere best practice

In June I gave a presentation OES2 on vSphere best practice. After this session I got a lot of possible response from the people in the studio. Although you can download the presentation a long time from the novellcongres.nl site, I thought to post it out here also. One disadvantage, because the congres is called [...]

Thursday July 8th, 2010 in Novell, Vmware | 2 Comments »

VMware and Novell Expand Strategic Partnership to Deliver and Support SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware vSphere Environments

Just a quick copy-past from a press release VMware and Novell today announced an expansion to their strategic partnership with an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement through which VMware will distribute and support the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system. Under the agreement, VMware also intends to standardize its virtual appliance-based product offerings on SUSE [...]

Thursday June 10th, 2010 in Novell, Vmware | Comments Off

Novellcongres.nl

Next week for the 9th time the Novellcongres.nl is held in the Netherlands. Normal this congress is in may, but Novell planned Brainshare in the same week so they had to move. Like last year I’m also giving a session. The session title is Open Enterprise Server 2 and vSphere best practices. It’s a 2.0 [...]

Wednesday May 26th, 2010 in Novell | Comments Off

Early bird registration Novell Brainshare Amsterdam

The time is finally there! Now we can register for the early bird of Novell Brainshare Amsterdam. The early bird price is EUR 695,- and end at 16 april 2010. After the early bird the price will be EUR 800,-. As I posted in a previous post, Brainshare Amsterdam will be in the Passenger Terminal [...]

Monday February 8th, 2010 in Novell | Comments Off

Securing your Apache webserver with a certificate from godaddy.com

Most of you people probably run a webserver for example a webaccess server. Apache default uses a self-singed SSL certificate who is created during installation of Apache. Disadvantage is that when people access you secure website they get a error that the certificate cannot be validated because of a untrusted Certificate Authority (CA). This does [...]

Thursday January 28th, 2010 in Novell | 13 Comments »

Single Sign On Novell Client for VMware View

If you use the Novell on a Widows Virtual Machine that’s going to be used for VMware View, you don’t want your user to login twice. First for VMware View and after that for the Novell Client. If you only use a Windows Client this is done by VMware View. For Novell we have to [...]

Monday January 25th, 2010 in Novell, Vmware | Comments Off

Groupwise 8.0 SP1 HP1 avaliable

Just a quick post: Novell Release HP1 for Groupwise 8.0 SP1. You can download the files at http://download.novell.com Here are changes: Admin 510213 – DBCopy -i switch is not working properly. 553048 – Properties of distribution lists are not visible using German 8.01 snap-ins 555339 – Admin API Issue – New return values added for [...]

Thursday January 14th, 2010 in Novell | 4 Comments »

Brainshare Amsterdam

A couple of months ago I blogged that Brainshare was comming to Amsterdam. Now, Novell has launched the Novell Brainshare Amsterdam website where you can find a lot (and in the future more) information about this event. The date for Brainshare is from 18-21 may 2010 and the location is the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam. The [...]

Wednesday January 13th, 2010 in Novell | 1 Comment »