RHEL - Spheron1

May 14, 2014

Twitter integration not working in WHMCS

If you’re having problems with WHMCS’s Twitter integration feature on a CentOS/RHEL server, then chances are that you need to install the php-xml RPM. The Twitter integration in WHMCS uses jQuery to make a POST request to announcements.php detailing the number of tweets to retrieve. This then in turn connects to the Twitter API, parses the response and returns it...

WHMCS Comments: 0

December 29, 2013

SolusVM displaying wrong disk usage statistics for Xen PV VMs

Recently some of our Xen PV VMs started to show strange disk space usage statistics in SolusVM – despite there being plenty of space left on the disk in the VM, SolusVM was reporting that the disk was nearly full! I struggled to find any public information about this, but apparently it is a known problem with SolusVM and the...

SolusVM Comments: 0

September 11, 2013

Dell DSET on CentOS

Those of you unfortunate enough to have encountered the Dell technical suport department will know their love for the Dell diagnostic tools. Those of you who run CentOS and have been asked for a DSET report (Dell System E-Support Tool) will also know that the DSET tool refuses to run on an “unsupported” operating system. Luckily, DSET is quite easy...

Dell PowerEdge Comments: 0

June 19, 2010

Intel VT Virtualisation Technology on Dell PowerEdge servers

Somewhat annoyingly, Dell seem to like to disable Intel’s VT (Virtualisation Technology, sometimes called VMX) in the BIOS on their Dell PowerEdge servers, which means that you can’t use the Xen hypervisor to virtualise Microsoft Windows Server without changing this setting, which requires a reboot of the server to take effect. You can use omreport from the Dell OpenManage Server...

Red Hat and CentOS Comments: 0

Tag: RHEL

Twitter integration not working in WHMCS

SolusVM displaying wrong disk usage statistics for Xen PV VMs

Dell DSET on CentOS

Intel VT Virtualisation Technology on Dell PowerEdge servers