OpenStack Essex Installation and Configuration Screencast from Scratch (Part 1)
Many hours, days, nights and poor defenseless VMs were destroyed in preparing this how-to. There are some great scripts out there but for most engineers and architects we need to tear it apart look at the guts and put it back together. You are in luck. There are a lot of moving parts on the current OpenStack Essex release, so …
OpenStack Essex Operational Demo
This is the first in some configuration and deployment guides for OpenStack Essex. This clearly has potential well beyond hyper-scale cloud and content providers. If VMware execs are not concerned about enterprise market share today, I expect they will be sooner, rather than later. It represents consumerism driving the market. ‘Ecosystem’, is the new, fun buzzword in the cloudy, smokey …
Floodlight OpenFlow Controller Screencast with HP Switches
There is an updated post with the newest HP OpenFlow firmware that can be found at: Quick how-to on installing the Floodlight OpenFlow controller and a slick http UI fronted someone put up on GutHub. Floodlight is probably the easiest of all controllers to setup. It is built in Java and based on the Beacon controller project. It is a …
Configuring the NOX GUI
Configuring the NOX GUI To install NOX Destiny branch refer to this post. To get the little test web page going run the following on startup.
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./nox_core -v dummywebpage then go to in a web browser http://localhost |
To run the NOX GUI you can do the following. I am showing the errors you get if you don’t have the Python GUI classes loaded. Start the NOX GUI Start NOX with …
OpenStack Essex Scripted Installation on Ubuntu 12.04 (Part 2)
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. Thanks! Well, we have OpenStack running on a couple of nodes now what? Let’s install WordPress on two nodes with web server running Apache on one node and MySql on …
OpenStack Essex Scripted Installation on Ubuntu 12.04 (Part 1)
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. Thanks! Here is a two-parter on how to bring up an OpenStack build on VirtualBox. A screencast is accompanying the two sections. I live in networks, so if …
NOX OpenFlow Controller Installation Screencast Ubuntu 11.10
This post is on the NOX OpenFlow Controller Installation Screencast Ubuntu 11.10. When compiling NOX If you get the error “configure: error: openssl/md5.h not found. NOX requires OpenSSL” You just need to switch to the ‘destiny’ branch from the default ‘zaku’ branch. Setup dependency repo: cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d wget http://openflowswitch.org/downloads/debian/nox.list apt-get update cd ~/<wherever you want to put the src files> Install …
POX Openflow Controller Installation Screencast
POX Openflow Controller Installation: POX is a lightweight OpenFlow controller that is written completely in Python that is targeted for developers to spin up their own controllers. The nice thing about POX is if you want an OF controller spun up in as fast as you can type git clone etc, you got it. It supports the same tools that NOX …
Open vSwitch GRE Tunnel Configuration
We continue to destroy our nice clean data centers to facilitate poor application architectures that do not scale in a layer 3 fashion. We continue to come up with new technologies using old architectures to turn our networks into flat data centers under the guise of “cloud mobility”. Ok sorry, I got that out of my system. Open vSwitch is …
Installing and Configuring OpenvSwitch on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
Quick install how to for Installing and Configuring OpenvSwitch on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) with the nightly OVS build. Before I start, I must point out the great progress the dev team has done in such a short time. All of the old gotchas in earlier releases on implementation are long gone. I am going to revisit the KVM integration …
Basic MPLS/VPN with Cisco IOS
This is a quick tutorial for basic MPLS/VPN with Cisco IOS configuration. The tutorial exemplifies basic PE to P to PE configuration on three Cisco 7200s running in GNS3 with IOS. R2 is configured as a route reflector P node and R4, R6 and R3 are PE node route reflector clients. The IGP is OSPF with R2 as the ABR. Loopback1 …
OTV configuration notes
Quick notes on OTV. I have not put this on lab gear yet so there may be typos. It does require licensing so make sure you have that budgeted, if not its a 20kish surprise which sucks.
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#enable the feature</br> feature otv</br> #create site Vlan</br> vlan 200</br> name otv-overlay-vlan |
#The Overlay interface ID (int overlay1) must match at both sites. A Vlan can only be assigned to one overlay.
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otv site-identifier 250 |
#Join-interface. From …
OpenVswitch and GRE tunnel notes
Here is a quick post for setting up GRE tunnels on OpenVswitch. Both Vswitch boxes are attached to an OpenFlow Beacon controller. More up to date how-to can be found here: Configuring VXLan and GRE tunnels on OpenvSwitch KVM live storage migration makes an interesting story and run at VMware tools. The dreaded layer2 data center link conversation may never …
Installing Open vSwitch with KVM
This tutorial is for installing Open vSwitch with KVM in order to replace traditional hypervisor Ethernet switching using Linux bridging with Open vSwitch. I rebuilt this box becuase as fun as it was to setup OpenStack (I think) there are a million modules that would take more time to clip out rather than just rebuilding. Anyone gotten Nova integrated into …
OpenStack on Ubuntu 11.10 Installation
My notes from an OpenStack & Ubuntu 11.10. These are only my notes. Lots of errors. It was a fairly painless install. I didnt have the lab gear setup with two Nics so I got a bit kludgy at the end. I think the interesting component will be to replace the Openstack bridging with OpenVswitch. sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server sudo …
