Multi-factor authentication (MFA) provides increased security and better access control to Platform9 resources. With multi-factor authentication, the user is expected to provide more than one authentication parameters to sign in.... 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
Platform9 enables creation of efficient and scalable resource tiers using OpenStack host aggregates. Aggregates allow you to: Create virtual clusters or tiers of resources by group together one or more... Read More
This article explains CPU and memory overcommitment feature of OpenStack. KVM hypervisor is can overcommit CPU and memory resources for a virtual machine. This results in higher consolidation and cost savings. OpenStack Nova... 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
If you have uploaded your virtual machine images to the designated image catalog folder on your host that’s been assigned the image catalog role, and you still don’t see those... Read More
This article describes steps to configure NFS shared storage to get it working with your Platform9 OpenStack private cloud. By default, Platform9 assumes certain locations on your Linux server for... Read More