Software Defined Data Center SlideDeck: Posting a SlideDeck from a presentation while back titled Software Defined Data Centers, if the graphics help anyone with their own presentations have at em! The only different concepts are some public cloud thoughts and scenarios and some analogies to wireless controllers and SDN deployments. Not all networks must be built… Continue reading Software Defined Data Center Slidedeck
Month: August 2012
Nested KVM Hypervisor Support
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]Nested KVM Hypervisor Support[/fancy_header3] Adding Hardware Virtualization Support to a VM in KVM with Nested Hypervisor support is pretty important for folks wanting to do proofs for VMs, IaaS, OpenStack etc. It is fairly well supported now under both KVM and Xen. Not to mention, who wants to lab up bare metal when they… Continue reading Nested KVM Hypervisor Support
Public Cloud and Network as a Service
[fancy_header3 variation=”deepblue”]Public Cloud and Network as a Service[/fancy_header3] The first part of the post was building the Public Cloud node. The second part of this post is going to be a primitive blue print for how to build a hybrid private/public network and what network as a service could mean. Without reliable national broadband and… Continue reading Public Cloud and Network as a Service
The HP Public Cloud and OpenStack
[fancy_header3 variation=”deepblue”]The HP Public Cloud and OpenStack[/fancy_header3] We have listened to people ramble on about the promise of the cloud and the impact on infrastructure for a few years now, but very rarely has anyone articulated a reasonable blueprint on ramp into this public cloud. SaaS is everywhere, the application was and will continue to… Continue reading The HP Public Cloud and OpenStack
Rackspace OpenStack Installation on a KVM VM
Rackspace OpenStack Installation on a KVM VM: Big day in the OpenStack world, Rackspace announced it was releasing its Openstack installer image named Alamo v1.0. running on top of KVM, along with Opscode Chef and Rackspace OpenStack cookbooks. This may be the Open Source renaissance we have been needing and forced into by exorbitant profit taking,… Continue reading Rackspace OpenStack Installation on a KVM VM
Quantum OpenStack Scripted Python Install
Update: My latest installation document for Folsom can be found here. It’s too tough to try and keep up with debugging installers myself so I am just using DevStack in that tutorial. This will not work with OpenStack apt-get repos anymore since the packages have changed to Folsom. Thanks! Quantum OpenStack Python Installer Installation: Here is a cobbled… Continue reading Quantum OpenStack Scripted Python Install
Why Enterprise Wireless Networks Got it Right
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]Why Enterprise Wireless Networks Got it Right[/fancy_header3] I wanted to post some 802.11 wireless usage numbers and device breakdowns. These are two week University usage numbers in August of 2012. This period is right before students return so I wanted a baseline to capture the diff when students 25,000+ students come back with the… Continue reading Why Enterprise Wireless Networks Got it Right
Building a Windows Image for OpenStack
[fancy_header3 variation=”steelblue”]Building a Windows Image for OpenStack[/fancy_header3] Building a Windows Image for OpenStack : Here is a how-to for building a Windows image to import into OpenStack or a KVM Hypervisor. We need to sysprep the image before we can import it into Glance. [colored_box variation=”steelblue”]For a tutorial on getting OpenStack Folsom up and running… Continue reading Building a Windows Image for OpenStack