Pointing XenServer to a new Open vSwitch Manager (Nicira/NSX)
Our XenServer hypervisors use Nicira/NSX for Software Defined Networking (orchestrated by CloudStack). We had to migrate from one controller to another and that could easily be done by changing the...
View ArticleMaking a XenServer unique after cloning from template
At work we’re creating a CloudStack development environment that can be created and destroyed as we go. One of the requirements is to quickly create a couple of hypervisors to run some tests. KVM is...
View ArticleMaking XenServer and CloudStack sing and dance together (again)
XenServer and Apache CloudStack work nicely together and form an easy-to-go couple for many companies. However, not many people know that recent releases changed the cooperation between the two...
View ArticleRebooting a XenServer cluster while all VMs keep running
At Schuberg Philis, we manage quite a farm of XenServer clusters. As the number of clusters we operate goes up, so goes the time it takes to manage them all. And, let’s be honest: patching and...
View ArticleSlides from my talk: “Operating CloudStack: the easy way” at the CloudStack...
Here are the slides from my talk about CloudStack automation, at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Dublin today.Filed under: CloudStack Tagged: automation, cloudstack, talk, xenserver
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