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. …
vCenter: VPXD Crash
Recently I was trying to resolve an issue on a small vCenter 5.0.0 deployment. Basically the primary symptom of the issue was that the service the vmware-vxpd service was crashing and needing to be restarted frequently. The first thing I did was examine the log files, while the service was…