OVN Integration & Coexistence on Xenserver and XCP-ng

Research on multi hypervisor network virtualization using Open Virtual Network Summary The cleanest technical path is not to bolt a foreign br-int onto a host that already has its networking lifecycle owned by XAPI. The safer pattern is to let…

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Top 3 Online Resources to Learn Coding

Learn to write your own applications for fun and profit. Here are quality free resources online that I can personally vouch for. I get nothing for suggesting these websites.

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Digital Ocean How to download a copy or snapshot of your droplet or vm locally and run it on your own server

* This post uses the DD command which if used improperly WILL completely destroy your system.  If you are unsure about what you are doing do not even attempt anything below. The command below will overwrite any drive you tell…

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How to fix RDO Packstack Openstack Installation Error: “rabbitmq-server start failed with exitcode 1”

This took more time then I would like to admit to find the solution, because the error is simply do to the machines hostname not being set correctly. The machine’s hostname should match in /etc/hosts with hostname in /etc/hostname file.  That…

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Real World Application of GRE and VXLAN Encapsulation between Mixed Hypervisors on Disjoint Networks PART-1.

Happy Thanksgiving! I thought about putting this all into one post. I quickly realized it wouldn’t be possible as there is just to much! Contrary to what this first post’s format this will be a technical how to. This is…

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Change interface names back to eth0, eth1 on CentOS 7

CentOS 7 interface naming has changed from the previous version, now instead of the first interface being named eth0, the second named eth1 and so forth, we have eno1 or eno16777984 or some other scheme starting with eno, not a…

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