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Updated Quanta Winterfell BIOS fixes issue where you cannot send keystrokes to ESXi via IPMItool
After working this issue with Quanta/VMware since July of 2014, we finally have a new working issue for the Quanta Winterfell motherboards. What was happening: You could see everything on the SOL interface, but you could not send any key sequences (no keyboard input was being accepted). You can grab the BIOS here. F03C3A05 Working BIOS
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Using Puppet to configure LLDPAD on the Open Compute Winterfell
On our OCP Winterfell nodes, in CentOS 6; the 10GB Mellanox NIC’s show up as eth0 and eht1, where the 1GB management interface shows up as eth2. We are also using Brocade 10GB top-of-rack switches. So configuring LLDP was necessary for the servers to advertise themselves to the upstream switches. To do this, we use […]
Tags: LLDP, LLDPAD, OCP, opencompute, Puppet
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How do you operationalize OpenStack?
So after “living with OpenStack” for a couple months now, I’ve been taking notes and such, figured I’d share them. This view is from a managed services environment, but an enterprise view would be ok as well. Our OpenStack architecture cannot, and will-not look like our Vmware architecture where each hypervisor node also provides storage, […]
Tags: Open Stack, OpenStack, Operationalization, Operations
Posted in Cloud, Coud Security, Networking, Open Compute, Open Stack, SmartCloud, SmartCloud Orchestrator, vCAC, Virtualization, vmware | No Comments »
Using haproxy as a load balancer for OpenStack services on RedHat OpenStack
Configuring RedHat OpenStack to be highly available is not like VMware where you just enable a couple features, check some boxes and voila! Quite the contrary… In fact; configuring RedHat OpenStack to be highly available is quite elegant. Lets look at it like this. You quite a few services that make up OpenStack as a […]
Tags: HA, haproxy, Highly Available, Open Stack, OpenStack
Posted in Linux, Neutron, Nova, OCP, Open Compute, Open Stack, Virtualization | 2 Comments »