VMware by default comes with “vSwitch0”, the standard vSwitch which is at host level providing essential networking features such as 802.1Q VLAN tagging, egress traffic shaping, basic security, and NIC teaming required for the virtualisation setup. Then comes a vDS (vSphere Distributed Switch) which essentially operates at Data center level making configuration of multiple hosts easies to manage with added advantages like ingress/egress traffic shaping, PVLANs (Private VLANs), and network…
Month: September 2016
Implementing Brocade SDN Controller (Vyatta)
Hello Folks, In this blog I am sharing the implementation of Brocade SDN Controller. It is a software-defined networking (SDN) controller that is based on the OpenDaylight project. This controller has 2 section the Base controller and the Extension. I have covered the theory party in another blog and this blog is focused on the installation of the controller. Brocade SDN Controller needs specific hardware and software, before you install…
Working With Ansible
Ansible has picked up well and widely used as it is simple and easy to use IT automation tool. Ansible can be used to administrate servers farms, deploy applications and systems/VM/containers . Ansible configuration is written in plain English and works on the remote/local server using SSH without needing any agent. I am using Centos 7 for my Ansible implementation . So let us first install the latest version of…
Tripleo-Overcloud
In my previous article http://ranjeetbadhe.com/tripleo-undercloud I discussed the Undercloud testbed setup and the installation steps. I hope you have to work Undercloud and we can start the overcloud deployment. In my testbed, I have got 1 Director node,1 Compute node and 1 Controller node. These nodes are virtualized on ESXi Hypervisor. The below screenshots shows the configuration of these 2 VM’s. For the 3 nodes, I have allocated 24GB memory to…
Tripleo UnderCloud On CentOS 7
Tripleo(Openstack on Openstack) UnderCloud I have covered Openstack installation using Packstack on my last blog http://ranjeetbadhe.com/part1-openstack-installation. In this blog, I will demonstrate the installation of Undercloud Openstack. This installation can be done on a bare metal machine or on a VM, depends on your convenience and the resources you have at your disposal. I am going to cover the deployment of 2 nodes 1 Controller and 1 Compute node. This implementation is…
Data Centre Technology
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Software Defined Networks
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Openstack-Installation-Packstack
Welcome to Openstack. I am writing this series in 7 parts as I try to cover all the components with fair level of details. In this episode lets go through Installation process via PACKSTACK. OpenStack is a stack of open source software that service providers can use to setup and run their cloud compute and storage infrastructure. Different Components of Openstack: 1) Block Storage (Cinder) 2) Compute (Nova) 3) Dashboard…
Project_Frequently_Used_Command ( Generic commands)
Handy commands while working on Openstack Project with RHOSP10 and RHOSP 16 environment and HP Switches environment Command used when the introspection fails on RHOSP sudo podman restart ironic_conductor 2. Command to check PCS status on all controllers from director using loop. IP= Controllers ip address . IP=”10.1.2.31 10.1.2.27 10.1.2.21″ for i in $IP; do ssh heat-admin@$i “hostname; sudo pcs status”; done 3. Validating JSON file python3 -m json.tool instack.json…