Archive for the ‘Virtualization’ Category
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, [...]
OK so you have been kicking around an old NT machine for years, neigh, a decade. So what do you do with it? Realistically the machine has already sustained numerous failures, and it won’t make it through another one. We have all fought this battle. I personally fought this battle many years ago and frankly [...]
As one of our final validation points in an ongoing project has been enabling ESX to use a LAG on both the Management and VM Networks. The last time we did this we were unable to get it to work, and it turns out the solution was actually very simple. Basically the core of the [...]
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 [...]