Fedora 17 is in Beta and Red Hat included the Open vSwitch in this distribution. So, I wanted to test it out.
The Fedora Beta installation process does not provide as many module installation options as a standard Red Hat Install does. So, the VMware Tools installation proved to be a little tricky… Continue reading
Just wanted to do a quick follow-up to my earlier video on how to deploy the newest version of the Cisco Nexus 1000V (Click Here to see it). Knowing how to deploy the VSM is great, but it becomes most useful when you know how to configure port-profiles (analogous to portgroups in VMware’s Standard vSwitch and vDS). Continue reading
I recently worked on a project requiring Oracle RAC Clustering on VMware. I read VMware’s Best Practices Guide as part of my research and wanted to point out at least one significant difference between VM setups for Oracle RAC and for Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS)… Continue reading
You read the C-Series Documentation front to back, double-checked your cabling from the VIC (P81E) Card to the UCS Fabric Interconnect, triple-checked your Gb connection from the C-Series management ports to the Fabric Extender, but your Rackmount UCS Servers are still not showing up in UCS Manager…What is going on? Continue reading