The Quickest “Zero to Cloudstack” Deployment tool has been updated!
CloudStack Deploy is a utility for making Apache CloudStack and KVM installations quick, easy and painless whether you’re deploying to a single server or many. Meant to be reusable so you can deploy...
View Article3 Things you need to know when getting started with Cloudstack
Where to get general information. Before beginning with any project you need to get some general information about it first. The Apache Cloudstack documentation is not great but it’s not horrible...
View ArticleHow to get Hyper-V 2012 running in VMware Fusion 6.x
You want to play with Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 but don’t have the 64bit hardware do it with but you do have a Mac that’s running VMware Fusion 6. If that’s the case then you can install Hyper-V in a...
View ArticleQuick and Easy Apache CloudStack deployments using cldstk-deploy.
CloudStack Deploy is a utility for making Apache CloudStack (ACS) and KVM installations quick, easy and painless whether you’re deploying to a single server or many. Meant to be reusable so you can...
View ArticleThe Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Space Is Heating Up!
VMware recently announced there EVO:RAIL Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCIA) offering. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is a combination of compute, network and storage resources into a single unit of...
View ArticleApache CloudMonkey v5.2.0 – CloudStack (CLI)
Apache CloudStack, the mature, turnkey Open Source cloud computing software platform used for creating private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, today announced Apache CloudMonkey v5.2.0, the...
View ArticleTwitter Analytics free for all!
If you’ve ever wanted to track your twitter accounts but did not want to pay for it, your in luck. Twitter has released its twitter analytics tool to the general public. This is tool is really nice for...
View Articlecldstk-deploy the multipurpose CloudStack deployment tool.
CloudStack Deploy is a utility for making Apache CloudStack and KVM installations quick, easy and painless. Meant to be reusable so you can deploy Apache CloudStack more than once after you’ve...
View ArticleApache CloudStack 4.4 with Advanced Networking Setup Pt. 1
This post is the start of a few posts that will setup a CloudStack environment from scratch then get it to the point where you have advanced networking configured and deploying vm instances. The step...
View ArticleApache CloudStack 4.4 with Advanced Networking Setup Pt. 2 – Open vSwitch
In this post I show how to install Open vSwitch on CentOS 6.5. This is the second post that gets into the Apache CloudStack 4.4 with Advanced Networking Setup. You can find the first one here. First we...
View ArticleApache CloudStack 4.4 with Advanced Networking Setup Pt.3 – VPC and GRE
So I’m at the last post in the series on advanced networking with Apache CloudStack 4.4 and I decided to let the videos do all the work instead of creating a long drawn out post. I could have added...
View ArticleThe IT Infrastructure Paradox of Choice
Today software is king and hardware is a commodity. There are lots of innovative products and solutions, in the IT infrastructure space alone, flooding the market today because of this. From private,...
View ArticleProxmox VE 3.3 Release – What’s new.
Proxmox VE is a complete open source virtualization management solution for servers. Proxmox is based on KVM virtualization and container-based virtualization and manages virtual machines, storage,...
View Article10GbE and Software-Defined Infrastructure
Time has turned the standard practices of yesteryear on it’s head mostly due to virtualization and cloud computing. The jump from storage area networks (SAN) to converged infrastructure was a slow one...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Nutanix, a match made in Hyper-Convergence
My beginning like most started with VMware virtualization. Back then the enterprise was a baby and I was painfully trying the feed it green pea baby food. Can you picture virtualization on a spoon...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Nutanix, a match made in Hyper-Convergence Pt.2
Now that we have the high-level benefits or reasons to consider Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Nutanix lets get into some of the configuration details. I’ll first show how it was done before Nutanix because it...
View ArticleAzure RemoteApp, the Good and the Bad.
Azure RemoteApp is a nice progression to RemoteApp and it has come out of beta this month. RemoteApp enables you to make programs that are accessed remotely through Remote Desktop Services (RDS) appear...
View ArticlePackt Publishing $5 eBook Bonanza is here!
From the 18th of December till January 6th you can treat yourself to every eBook and video will be available on the Packt Publishing’s website for just $5. This is a deal that’s hard to pass up with...
View ArticleApplications are stronger when they exercise.
This post is comes in response to a blog post that was sparked from a twitter post. The blog post “My wish for 2015 – better tooling to provide better insight” by Frank Denneman. The tweet, from what I...
View Article2015 Enterprise Adoption – Things that will gain more traction this year
Here are my prediction for the new year of technologies that will make a big splash in the enterprise. This list shows what I think will have greater enterprise adoption with production workloads,...
View ArticleAre we on the brink of complete hardware commoditization?
Some will say hardware commoditization is here. The hardware I speak of, in general, is the computer components that make up compute, network and storage. I liked the tweet sent by John Troyer founder...
View ArticleApache CloudStack 4.5.1 Announcement
The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the 4.5.1 release of the CloudStack, the cloud orchestration platform. The 4.5.1 release contains more than 500 bug fixes since the 4.4 release....
View ArticleAzure Content Delivery Network
What is CDN? CDN is basically a distributed storage system used to deliver content over the Internet to end users. CDNs serve a large amount of the content on the Internet today. The main goal of a CDN...
View ArticleUpdated cldstk-deploy now supports Apache CloudStack 4.5
Over the weekend I update cldstk-deploy with support for deploying Apache CloudStack 4.5.1. I’ve also added a rpm build script that will build apache cloudstack rpms from source on CentOS 6.6. Please...
View Articlecldstk-deploy is getting its summer cleaning
cldstk-deploy is a tool I created with a main objective of making Apache Cloudstack deployments so simple a caveman could do it. I think in most cases I hit the mark but in my efforts to get it done...
View ArticleHow to install CoreOS on Cloudstack
If your looking to get CoreOS on CloudStack these instructions will show you how. Adding the CoreOS ISO to CloudStack Log into CloudStack then goto “Template –> ISO” Click the “Register ISO” button....
View ArticleDeploying CloudStack has never been easier.
This version of cldstk-deploy has gotten some more features that your going to love. Now cldstkdeploy: Supports deployments from Mac OSX. Deploys a NFS server by default for All-In-One. Creates jobs...
View ArticleApache Mesos on Apache CloudStack
Mesos is an abstract layer for CPU, memory and storage resources. Its intended to be somewhat of a datacenter operating system (DCOS). Mesos is absolutely awesome and I wanted to mix it up with some...
View ArticleTerraform your Azure Infrastructure
Terraform makes it extremely easy to deploy vm instances on multiple providers like CloudStack, OpenStack, AWS, Azure and more by describing your complete infrastructure as code. You describe you...
View ArticleDocker Containers and Apache Mesos
In the post Apache Mesos on Apache CloudStack we setup an Apache Mesos cluster with Marathon on the master nodes and Docker on the slave nodes. Now lets see how to deploy Docker containers using Mesos...
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