Happy New Year and welcome to 2016! Box Adopts Platform9 What better way to kick off the new year than with good news? This morning we announced that Box has adopted... Read More
This tutorial describes how zero disk-size option for OpenStack flavors works. When a virtual machine is deployed using an image by applying a flavor to it, OpenStack will try to deploy... 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 tutorial is for those who wish to verify the authenticity of RPM or Debian packages included in the self-extracting installers. Step 1 – Download and import the Platform9 Systems... 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
Platform9 provides support for either a static IP address pool or external DHCP servers on a given network. This article describes the mechanism and troubleshooting for cases when an IP address... Read More
Similar to cloud-init for Linux virtual machines, cloudbase-init can be used for Windows virtual machines. The below cloudbase script allows you to output some data to a text file: [code]rem... 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 mechanism to configure Platform9 Nova networking with DHCP or static IP pool options. (NOTE: This is not applicable if you are using Platform9’s Neutron networking support). Note:... Read More