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
What’s New! Support for Cinder Block Storage With this release, we’ve now enabled OpenStack Cinder block storage service, to add persistent storage volumes to VM instances using VMFS datastores. The Cinder... Read More
What’s New! Support for Cinder Block Storage With this release, we’ve now enabled OpenStack Cinder block storage service, to add persistent storage volumes to VM instances using VMFS-Datastores. The Cinder... Read More
Last week, I joined the Platform9 team at the Amazon re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. It was exciting to be a part of the premier industry conference for cloud infrastructure... Read More
This tutorial describes how to populate your Platform9 private cloud image store with CentOS images, using RedHat’s Virtual Machine Manager. In general, there are three basic ways to get started with... Read More
Developers and end users can use Vagrant to deploy virtual machines on Platform9 Managed OpenStack. This tutorial describes the steps to do so. We use following GitHub Vagrant OpenStack plugin... Read More
In this guide, we will migrate a Windows VM from vSphere to KVM. Requirements A vSphere VM with one of the following operating systems (All 64 bit): Windows Server 2003... Read More