Posts Tagged ‘virtualization’
Recently I was trying to resolve an issue on a small vCenter 5.0.0 deployment. Basically the primary symptom of the issue was that the service the vmware-vxpd service was crashing and needing to be restarted frequently. The first thing I did was examine the log files, while the service was still in a failed state. [...]
So a fairly trivial (but critical) aspect of using KVM is of course performing graceful shutdowns of your domains, without having to reach inside of the guest to perform the shutdown. Now when it comes to turning off your guests you have two ways of proceeding (with virsh)… Which is a HARD power off of [...]
So I am on the ground in Dallas and trying to get my head around some of the technologies that we use in my new environment. One of those being the Xen kernel. I have never actually used Xen before, though I have used xenserver a bit. Anyways so my first foray into the Xen [...]
This really is an update to my previous article “Linux-KVM: Converting Raw Disk Images to LVM Logical Volumes“, but the process is significantly different and thus requires more explaining than a simple inline update would do it justice. Now the big flaw with my first article was that by using dd on the hypervisor level, [...]
Everyday I learn something new about Linux-KVM, this is why I love this platform. Today we are going to talk about Live Migration. The kicker? Shared storage not required. Now please keep in mind that just because shared storage is not required, doesn’t mean there is not a benefit to it. Shared storage will accelerate [...]