Posts Tagged ‘networking’
Today I am revisiting my previous post on Openvswitch on Ubuntu 12.04. Things have changed since then. Previously Openvswitch was relatively new and as such the userland tools (with libvirt being the one I use) didn’t support it yet, so while you could have used Openvswitch by executing the kvm processes for each VM manually. [...]
I don’t tend to use a lot of Windows in recent years, but if you look at my past articles I used to do quite a bit around Hyper-V, DFS, Exchange, and various other Windows Services. One thing that was always frustrating is the inconsistent experience around NIC teaming. Basically Teaming allows you to gain [...]
In Solaris 11, alot of configurations are being moved from configuration files into the Service Management Framework. Here we will discuss this change around the DNS client. View Existing DNS Client Configuration Update Existing DNS Client Configuration Here we will update our name servers. In this case we are replacing the original with two different [...]
When Solaris 11 was released more configurations were moved into the service management framework, and moved out of configuration files, one of these changes was the hostname/nodename. View Hostname in SMF This will read back the configuration out of the SMF. Change Hostname in SMF We have two separate settings, which need to be updated. [...]
UPDATE: October 29, 2012 This article doesn’t work on Ubuntu 12.10, to use Ubuntu 12.10 please refer to my new article here. Openvswitch is a better way of managing your virtual networking stacks for KVM and Xen. This can be used instead of the bridge-utils package, and has the ability to use VLANs, LACP, QoS, [...]