This OpenStack tutorial describes hardware requirements and prerequisites to prepare your servers to leverage OpenStack Neutron with Linux/KVM. For a general description of Neutron networking concepts, refer to this Tutorial:... Read More
If your Platform9 vCenter gateway virtual appliance reports a failure to pair due to an insufficient permissions warning, this either means that the vCenter user credentials you specified to authenticate... Read More
Have you ever botched your VM’s network configuration? Maybe you forgot to allow SSH traffic in your firewall settings? How do you fix the network configuration when you cannot even... Read More
It’s been few days since the most recent OpenStack Summit ended and the word that comes to mind when I reflect on the week that just past is “stability.” Some may... Read More
Last week I had the pleasure of catching up with GE Cloud Infrastructure Architect Cody Hill when he swung by our Silicon Valley office. In a Q&A session with the... Read More
1000+ AWS re:Invent 2015 attendees were surveyed about their cloud infrastructure, generating 4 key insights about why AWS customers have been moving to private cloud. 1. Although AWS has robust... Read More
A Platform9 Managed OpenStack Account comes with a host agent that must be downloaded and deployed on each of your physical servers/hosts in order to make them part of your... Read More
We are only a week away from the next OpenStack Summit and I am happy to report that Platform9 will have our biggest presence yet at any Summit. This is a... Read More
The VMFS-based Cinder service on VMware currently uses the best possible datastore it can find for creation of volumes. However, there can be situations where certain types of volumes need... Read More