This Tutorial describes steps required for setting up a vSphere Datastore as a backing for your OpenStack Glance Image Catalog in Platform9 Managed OpenStack. Set Up OpenStack Glance: Enabling Glance datastore feature... Read More
The next release of Platform9’s VMware integration brings OpenStack Cinder support in Platform9 for VMware vSphere environments using VMDK drivers. This exposes the existing datastore as a block storage backend.... 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
This article outlines the steps needed to enable VNC on VMware, so that the VNC console can be used within the Platform9 UI. Step 1 – Changes Needed on the... Read More
This tutorial describes the process of deauthorizing or removing a host from Platform9. Step 1 – Remove All Images from the Host If the host has been assigned the image... Read More
This tutorial provides basic recipes for manipulating images using OpenStack glance. Requirements You will first need to install the OpenStack Glance Client on one of your systems. Follow the Tutorial on... Read More
This tutorial describes how to install and start the Platform9 OpenStack host agent using the RPM or Debian packages extracted from the installer. Instructions on extracting the packages from the... 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
This OpenStack Tutorial will walk you through steps to get your Platform9 Managed OpenStack up and running for Linux/KVM environments. Pre-requisites This tutorial describes the Prerequisites for Getting Started with... Read More