Lately I have been going through an exercise of migrating all of my current services into Solaris 11 (more specifically a zone). I have already been using similar technology on the Linux side, I use OpenVZ with a mix of Linux distributions. However I would like to take advantage of…
Linux KVM: Ubuntu 12.10 with Openvswitch
Today I am revisiting my previous post on Openvswitch on Ubuntu 12.04. Things have changed since then. Previously Openvswitch was relatively new and as such the userland tools (with libvirt being the one I use) didn’t support it yet, so while you could have used Openvswitch by executing the kvm…
Linux-KVM: Ubuntu 12.04 with Openvswitch
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…
ESX 5: Link Aggregation with Netgear GSM7352S
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. …
Dell PowerConnect 6224: Stacking Module Dual Master
We use a couple of Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches in our storage network, however when they were first deployed we ran into an issue with the stacking modules. Basically when you brought up the switches they would both see themselves as master, and would not “stack” correctly. Turns out the…