Tag: KVM

In a recent webinar with David Davis from ActualTech Media sponsored by Platform9, featured Chris Paap of Platform9 discussing this very important topic of how to modernize virtualization stacks.  The… Read More

You can configure Nginx to serve as a reverse proxy server to facilitate access to the console of one or more virtual machines (VM) running on KVM-based hypervisors, without exposing the… Read More

This Tutorial describes the prerequisites for setting up Platform9 Managed OpenStack with Linux/KVM. Minimal Configuration (POC/Trial) Following is a minimal configuration to enable a Platform9 Managed OpenStack POC/Trial deployment. We… Read More

This Tutorial dives deeper into OpenStack Cinder block storage. Please read the Platform9 tutorial on Cinder Block Storage Integration for Cinder setup with Platform9 Managed OpenStack. Also refer to OpenStack Storage Options… Read More

This OpenStack storage options tutorial reviews different storage options available in OpenStack, and the use cases for each. This will serve as a building block for follow up tutorials that dive deeper… Read More

This tutorial describes the steps for recovering OpenStack instances on a Linux/KVM hypervisor due to downtime or for maintenance purpose. Requirements Two or more hypervisors running the same KVM version. They… Read More

This tutorial describes how to configure OpenStack Neutron networking options for Platform9 Managed OpenStack for Linux-KVM. Please also refer to: General Neutron Concepts Tutorial for some background knowledge. Pre-requisites and Hardware… Read More

This article outlines the steps needed to enable VNC on existing virtual machines. KVM Step 1 – Shutdown the Instance SSH into the host where the virtual machine of interest… Read More

This tutorial describes how to manually prepare a CentOS physical server with KVM virtualization, and other auxiliary packages. NOTE: When you deploy a Platform9 agent on your CentOS physical server,… Read More