Software

Deploy Apache CloudStack with cldstk-deploy, now on Github.

April 24, 2020
cldstk-deploy

CloudStack Deploy is a utility for making Apache CloudStack and KVM installations quick, easy and painless. Meant to be reusable so you can deploy Apache CloudStack more than once after you’ve downloaded the RPMS and systemtemplates locally with cldstk-deploy. Features can pre download Apache CloudStack RPMS (version 4.2 & 4.3) can pre download KVM...
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V-Commander now supports Amazon AWS EC2

March 27, 2020

Embotics V-Commander is marketed as cloud management software but until version 5.0.x it’s only supported VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. With the release of 5.x, Embotics V-Commander is truly entering the realm of Cloud Management starting with Amazon EC2. V-Commander is clearly the easiest virtualization or cloud management software I have ever installed...
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VMware Virtual SAN, the buzz is starting to sting!

March 7, 2020

VMware officially introduced us to Virtual SAN yesterday. They showed what features to expect and statements from users of the product and industry analysis. Lately VMware announcements are filled with buzz. Now if you don’t know about VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) here are the basics. Features vSAN will come embedded in the vSphere kernel so...
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CloudStack 4.2 RPM build how to

September 25, 2020

CloudStack 4.2 is ready for release but the site has not updated so that you can just update your repo and install or upgrade so in this post I'll go thru the process I use to compile from source. You can use this process for other versions but some things may change. You could...
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PHD Virtual Backup 6.5

August 27, 2020

PHD Virtual Backup has been updated to 6.5 and with this upgrade comes a few very important new features. If you have seen any of my previous reviews of this product you’ll note that I’m using it to backup and protect VMware vSphere virtual machines. This version supports vSphere 5.1 and comes in an...
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Apache Cloudstack Management Post Installation Pt.4

July 8, 2020

So for this post I decided to do a video showing what to do after the you've completed the initial steps. It only shows the process for creating a Zone with all it's required resources like storage and hosts. The video was done using version 4.0 but it works for 4.1. The only difference...
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Cloudstack 4.1 Host (Agent) Installation

June 17, 2020

CloudStack is now at 4.1 and there have been many changes. This means that the installation process has also changed so I wanted to update the process I outlined from a previous post (http://thehyperadvisor.com/?p=2093) for CloudStack 4.1. I will outline some of those changes, which is really only one for the kvm host server,...
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Cloudstack 4.1 Management Server Installation

June 16, 2020

CloudStack is now at 4.1 and there have been many changes. This means that the installation process has also changed so I wanted to update the process I outlined from a previous post (http://thehyperadvisor.com/?p=2059) for CloudStack 4.1. I will outline some of those changes to help you easily install CloudStack on CentOS. This post...
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Cloudstack Host (Agent) Installation (4.0.2)

June 6, 2020

CloudStack is an open source software cloud controller for building private, public and hybrid IaaS environments. CloudStack lets you pool and manage compute, storage and network resources all from its inviting web interface. In this post I’ll show how to install the management server.
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Apache Cloudstack 4.1.0 Released

June 5, 2020

Apache Cloudstack 4.1.0 has been released. This is the first major release since Match 20th. Lots of development time went into this release. There is a known issue with 4.1.0 and a recent Tomcat release. This has been addressed in the convenience binaries, but is still present in 4.1.0 source release. They working on...
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