IT From All Angles

In my initial work with Oracle VM, I have run into a few fringe cases, which are not well documented, but actually have rather simple solutions.  This one actually cropped up over the weekend for me.  Over the weekend I decided to rebuild my company-issued laptop with Ubuntu Linux (12.04 amd64) to be specific.  I [...]

Oracle VM, is a centrally managed hypervisor.  All administrative actions must be performed from the Oracle VM Manager.  In order to facilitate the initial discovery of the Hypervisor by the Management Server part of the setup requires that we not only set the password for the root user, but also the password for the ovs-agent.  [...]

In my new role at Keste, I am tasked with staying on the bleeding edge of software release cycles, so that we can be knowledgeable and authoritative about technology when we engage with customers.  One of the areas where Keste leads is on Oracle’s Virtualization Offerings.  So I will be posting more and more content [...]

I haven’t been working with ESX for a bit, but while I was I was mostly interacting with it via the command line.  Here is a list I had compiled while I was going through that exercise, and since I while be starting a job next week where I will no longer be interacting with [...]

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, sFlow, and others.  In this article we will be using Ubuntu 12.04 (beta1) to configure Openvswitch to hand out networking interfaces to [...]