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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How to Fix Openstack Horizon Dashboard on Centos Stream 9 error: InvalidCacheBackendError

If you have recently deployed Openstack Caracal with RDO Packstack you may run into a problem when you first load the Horizon Dashboard. If you get the “Something went wrong” text instead of the regular login page even though Packstack…

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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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Microstack Openstack Image Service

How to add Image to Glance For the impatient: Microstack is admittedly not my favorite way to deploy openstack, probably because it takes some getting used to. Running openstack services in isolated containers makes things more secure, easier to deploy,…

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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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How to Upload Turnkey Linux Appliances to Openstack Juno

A video of this process is also below. Scroll Down to find it. Turnkey Linux is a very convenient way to obtain a very large assortment of pre-made virtual appliances for many different virtualization platforms, including Openstack. However deploying the appliances…

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Resize Centos 7 Partition for RDO Packstack Openstack installer Juno

Quick Video to setup Centos 7 during a fresh installation for RDO Packstack Juno so that you have more storage space. By default RDO Packstack uses the root partition for Openstack leaving the bulk of your hard drive space unused.…

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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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How to create a virtual network that spans every project in your Openstack based cloud.

Openstack Neutron has some mind blowing virtual networking. Many thing are not immediately apparent on how to configure though. This was one of them. This video show you how to create a Neutron virtual network that is accessible to all…

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