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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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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Make Mikrotik RouterOS and much, much more work on Citrix Xenserver

This is a quickie! I come across this a lot, you try to install specialized software like Mikrotik routeros, ClearOS, Endian Firewall, any job specific operating system (nas, iSCSI targets.) the list is pretty much endless. Many times it ends…

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How to install Xenserver tools (xs-tools.iso) on ClearOS virtual router.

Citrix made its Distributed virtual switch controller (DVSC) publicly available about a year or so ago,  at the same time they announced it was being deprecated.   This was bitter sweet.   Home labs now had access to this technology previously…

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