Let’s just jump right in into virtualizing a KVM based Physical Server using various KVM tools such as Virsh, Cockpit etc.  Will also introduce a twist by configuring bonding at the end, not the beginning, to document a retrofit to an existing environment. Begin by identifying how the various network interfaces that will make up […]

Running into this error? 502 Bad Gateway The server returned an invalid or incomplete response. This error only popped up when keepalived was started.  Otherwise just with HAproxy, a timeout was seen. It appeared as if it was a keepalived config error.  In this case, it was due to a faulty HAproxy configuration: [root@jenkins01 jenkins]# diff […]

On one of the Linux hosts, the routes were correctly populated: # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface 0.0.0.0         10.0.0.1        0.0.0.0         UG    0   […]

HP ILO X is the Hewlett Packard server management Integrated Lights Out software running independently from the main circutry of the host itself.  It allows remote management including power on/off, status checks, console etc.  This post goes over how to access the iLO interface when newer browsers such as Chrome, FireFox and Edge don't support […]