[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Problem running chef-client, just from 2 days ago.

[Kalle Lehtonen < >]

Hi Carlos,

Sorry to comeback to this issue this late.

But would you be able elaborate more on the issue?

We have encountered the same issue (and still encounter) in Rackspace
environment with Windows 2008R2 images with Rackconnect enabled servers. The
only difference was that we were able to try Windows client with non-Rackspace
server which worked. Also Chef client and server both running CentOS 6.5 PVHVM
image worked correctly.


I cannot find either of those server IDs on the list I get from Rackspace.
Could you tell the names of those images?
You also mentioned that the server flavor had an impact to it. I would then
guess you used standard flavors? Was it required for both client and server?

It would be also interesting to know if Rackspace was planning to fix the
performance flavor images and was this only affecting clients, server or both?

I am just interested on this because I would hate to go back to standard
servers in Rackspace.

Cheers,
Kalle

2014-07-30 9:39 GMT+03:00 Carlos Camacho 
<
 >:
> Hello Kalle,
>
> No problem man, this was a really nasty issue with a really simple fix 
> (Really).
> Them problems its that ohai some times get crazy getting the node name
> for Windows Performance images on Rackspace.
> This is the fix,
>
> You can either bootstrap your chef-client with the -N shortcut (My choice):
>
> knife bootstrap windows winrm IP -x Administrator -P pass -N hostname
>
> Or add to client.rb:
>
> node_name "hostname"
>
>
> I hope that this helps,
>
> Carlos.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:23 PM,  
> <
 >
>  wrote:
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> Sorry to comeback to this issue this late.
>>
>> But would you be able elaborate more on the issue?
>>
>> We have encountered the same issue (and still encounter) in Rackspace
>> environment with Windows 2008R2 images with Rackconnect enabled servers. 
>> The
>> only difference was that we were able to try Windows client with 
>> non-Rackspace
>> server which worked. Also Chef client and server both running CentOS 6.5 
>> PVHVM
>> image worked correctly.
>>
>>
>> I cannot find either of those server IDs on the list I get from Rackspace.
>> Could you tell the names of those images?
>> You also mentioned that the server flavor had an impact to it. I would then
>> guess you used standard flavors? Was it required for both client and 
>> server?
>>
>> It would be also interesting to know if Rackspace was planning to fix the
>> performance flavor images and was this only affecting clients, server or 
>> both?
>>
>> I am just interested on this because I would hate to go back to standard
>> servers in Rackspace.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kalle