In this article, we will migrate a secondary Linux VM disk from vSphere to an OpenStack Cinder volume. Requirements A vSphere VM with Linux installed A secondary disk on the Linux VM A host... Read More
In this guide, we will migrate a Linux VM from vSphere to KVM. For VMs with multiple disks, see the support article on Migrating a secondary Linux VM disk from vSphere to OpenStack for... Read More
Platform9 Release 1.5 features several feature enhancements and bug fixes. Salient features of this release include: Multi-Region Support Platform9 now supports the ability to have multiple regions, managed as a... Read More
Overview Platform9 Managed OpenStack enables administrators to manage multiple regions as part of their OpenStack cloud infrastructure. Datacenter resources in separate regions are managed by distinct sets of OpenStack management services (Nova/Glance/Cinder, etc.) but... Read More
It’s Tech Field Day 2016, where Platform9 CEO Sirish Raghuram and Chief Architect Bich Le presented on Wednesday February 3, 2016 from 9:30am-11:30am Central Time. Agenda includes deep dives into Platform9... Read More
Platform9’s Volume Type Metadata is another name for OpenStack Cinder’s Volume Type Extra Specs. Cinder Volume Extra Specs are vendor and driver supplied metadata. Users can use these as extra... Read More
Platform9’s managed OpenStack private cloud deployment gives users the ability to launch a VNC console for Virtual Machine instances that are under its’ management. However, this is only possible if... Read More
When you attach a volume to an instance, Cinder automatically adds the attached_mode and readonly key-value pairs to the volume. These tags describe the state of the volume and are... 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 the steps... Read More