What a week it has been! My task list grew massively, but it was because I created my own workload. The reason why: Toronto VMUG inspired me once again! On February 6th the Toronto VMUG hosted a full day event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre here in Toronto. It was a great event and we had a mighty good …
PowerCLI – Add Multiple VLAN Port Groups to vSphere Cluster Standard vSwitches
A recent change to my networking environment added the requirement to put different VM guests onto different VLANs according to their role. This is a fairly common configuration for a lot of virtualized datacenters. What is also common is that we don’t have the design fully prepared when we build our virtual infrastructure. Limitations of Standard vSwitches One of the …
OpenStack Lab on VMware Workstation – Setting up the All-In-One VM
In our first post, we got to the start of the OpenStack install using the Rackspace Private Cloud ISO (Alamo). Because we had to set up the VM, we stopped at our first menu option. Now we are going to set up the base system using the All-In-One option which co-locates all of the OpenStack node roles (controller and compute) …
OpenStack Lab on VMware Workstation – Getting Started
One of the hot topics these days is OpenStack. When I say hot topic, I should really say that it’s a fast-growing ecosystem which has been, and will continue to gain traction in the cloud infrastructure world. What makes OpenStack very interesting to me, and to many others in the virtualization community is that it can become a part of our …