Tag: cloud-init

Cloud-init has emerged to the be de-facto multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance. For more information on cloud-init, refer here: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ This tutorial describes the steps… Read More

Similar to cloud-init for Linux virtual machines, cloudbase-init can be used for Windows virtual machines. The below cloudbase script allows you to output some data to a text file: Sample… Read More

Scientific Linux 6.x EPEL supports cloud-init version 0.7.4. This version of cloud-init has two known issues related to IP assignment to virtual machines (VM). a) Parse error for ifcfg-eth0 –… Read More

There are two types of images supported with Platform9’s Managed OpenStack for VMware vSphere. You can use: VM Templates (automatically discovered from paired datastores) VMDK files (must be uploaded to the… Read More

In this guide, we will migrate a Windows VM from vSphere to KVM. Requirements A vSphere VM with one of the following operating systems (All 64 bit): Windows Server 2003… Read More

This Platform9 OpenStack tutorial describes tips on using various options to customize a virtual machine using cloud-init. Customize Virtual Machine Hostname Virtual machines deployed using cloud-init enabled images will by… Read More

If you wish to run Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machines on your Platform9 OpenStack cloud today, you have two options to get a Ubuntu 16.04 Image in your image catalog to… Read More

This tutorial describes how to create and deploy Windows virtual machine images using Platform9. Platform9 currently does not support creating a new virtual machine from scratch. You need to use… Read More

Cloud-init has emerged to the be de-facto multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance. For more information on cloud-init, refer here: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ This tutorial describes how to… Read More