Virtualization: Blue Gears

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by Edward Haletky

Edward L. Haletky is an Analyst for The Virtualization Practice and owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, and network consulting and development . Edward graduated from Purdue University in 1988 with a degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. Since then, he has worked with programming graphics and other lower-level libraries on various UNIX platforms. Edward is VMware vExpert, a Guru and moderator for the VMware Discussion Forums providing answers to security and configuration questions. He is the author of multiple books on Virtualization published by Prentice Hall.

RHEV upgrade saga: Creating VMs on Open vSwitch

Posted Jan 17, 2013 - 12:44 pm

Previously we create our network by integrating Open vSwitch into RHEL KVM. Now we need to create some virtual machines to run the workloads required.
Virtualization, Open vSwitch, RHEL
RHEV upgrade saga: RHEL KVM and the Open vSwitch

Posted Jan 14, 2013 - 09:01 am

A customer recently switched from VMware Server to KVM, but we wanted better networking, which required us to install and operate the Open vSwitch.
Virtualization, KVM, Linux
vSphere upgrade saga: HP Insight Management integration

Posted Jan 10, 2013 - 04:33 pm

I have previously written about upgrading HPSIM and installing HP specific offline bundles within my vSphere environment. This was to increase the integration between vCenter, vCloud Director, and my physical hardware. Still, everything was not integrated well enough. Here's what I did to make this work.
Virtualization, HP Insight Management for vCenter, HPSIM
vSphere upgrade saga: Adding a D2200SB w/P4000 VSA

Posted Jan 09, 2013 - 06:09 pm

In order to increase the size of my virtual environment, I need to increase the size of my primary storage. The choices were to increase the capacity of disks for slower disks, add another disk tray to my SAN, or to use a virtual storage appliance (VSA) within vSphere. I chose to go the route of a VSA. Here's how I did it:
Virtualization, blade servers, network storage
vSphere upgrade saga: Veeam upgrade

Posted Jan 07, 2013 - 08:46 am

Upgrading to the latest Veeam Backup and Replication v6.5 went smoothly. However, I got errors on all but one of my backup jobs. A simple patch fixed that.
Data Protection, Backup & Recovery, Veeam
Email upgrade: Replacing Axigen mail with MailScanner

Posted Jan 03, 2013 - 05:46 pm

I'm tired of moving spam mail to spam folders from which the system never learns. So it's time for me to try a new approach.
Software, email upgrade, mail server
vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading the storage on your Iomega ix2-200

Posted Dec 26, 2012 - 08:03 am

1TB is just not enough for everything I have.
Virtualization, Blue Gears, Linux
vSphere upgrade saga: Upgrading vCenter Operations Manager

Posted Dec 24, 2012 - 08:34 am

With both VIN and vCops broken, I had to fix both before moving on to the next phase of my migration.
Virtualization, VMware vCOps, VMware VIN
vSphere upgrade saga: Fixing backup and other virtual appliances

Posted Dec 19, 2012 - 08:48 am

Ever since I upgraded vCenter Server to v5.1, my backup tool has been failing, unable to connect to vCenter. This is not unexpected as my SSL certificate for vCenter changed, and with that change comes the need to fix my backup tool. How to do this is fairly straight-forward actually.
Virtualization, data protection, VMware
vSphere upgrade saga: vSphere ESXi and Host Profiles

Posted Dec 17, 2012 - 05:19 pm

Of all the upgrades I have done to date, this was by far the easiest. Perhaps it was practice or even VMware vSphere’s time in market, but the upgrade to vSphere ESXi 5.1 from v4.1 and v5.0 went flawlessly.
Virtualization, ESXi, VMware

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