OpenStack Deployment on Fedora using Kickstart
OverviewIn this article, we discuss our approach to performing an Openstack installation on Fedora using our RPM repository and Kickstart. When we first started working with OpenStack, we found that...
View ArticleShared storage for OpenStack based on DRBD
Storage is a tricky part of the cloud environment. We want it to be fast, to be network-accessible and to be as reliable as possible. One way is to go to the shop and buy yourself a SAN solution from a...
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OpenStack Nova and Dashboard authorization using existing LDAP
Our current integration task involves using goSA as the central management utility. goSA internally uses the LDAP repository for all of its data. So we had to find a solution to make both OpenStackNova...
View ArticleOpenStack Nova: basic disaster recovery
Today, I want to take a look at some possible issues that may be encountered while using OpenStack. The purpose of this topic is to share our experience dealing with the hardware or software failures...
View ArticleClustered LVM on DRBD resource in Fedora Linux
As Florian Haas has pointed out in my previous post's comment, our shared storage configuration requires special precautions to avoid corruption of data when two hosts connected via DRBD try to manage...
View ArticlevCider Virtual Switch Overview
A couple of months ago, Chris Marino, CEO at vCider, stopped by the Mirantis office and gave a very interesting presentation on the vCider networking solution for clouds. A few days later, he kindly...
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Bay Area OpenStack Meet & Drink Highlights
For those of you that weren’t able to make it yesterday and maybe for those of you who want to reminisce about the events of last night, Bay Area OpenStack Meet & Drink was probably the most...
View ArticleLDAP identity store for OpenStack Keystone
After some time working with OpenStack installation using existing LDAP installation for authentication, we encountered one big problem. The latest Dashboard code dropped support of old bare...
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Our Contribution to the Vegas Economy
Here are the highlights on our corporate team-building in Vegas last week. Special thanks to Rachel and Athena for making this party happen. Thank you to all who participated and helped make it fun.We...
View ArticleTracing the IT Evolution from the Big Bang to the Big Crunch
How enterprises are progressing from overgrown, difficult-to-manage IT systems to high performance open source infrastructureOver the history of computing, we can trace a pattern of continuous...
View ArticleCloud Accelerates Open Source Adoption
Historically, commercial software provided enterprises with reliability and scalability, especially for mission-critical tasks. No one wanted to risk failure in finance, operations, or any essential or...
View ArticleCloudpipe Image Creation Automation
Cloudpipe is used in OpenStack to provide access to project’s instances when using VLAN networking mode. It is just a custom Virtual Machine (VM) prepared in a special way, i.e. coming with an...
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What is this Keystone anyway?
The simplest way to authenticate a user is to ask for credentials (login+password, login+keys, etc.) and check them over some database. But when it comes to lots of separate services as it is in the...
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OpenStack Meet & Drink: Toast to Diablo – Event Highlights
As usual, here are the highlights from the last Bay Area OpenStack Meet & Drink: Toast to Diablo – September 28th, 2011. Thanks to WireRE for hosting us, Dave Nielsen – for helping to organize, and...
View ArticleConverging OpenStack with Nexenta
For those folks that have missed our webcast on using OpenStack Compute with NexentaStor for managing VM volumes, recording is below. Please note, you can download the NexentaStor driver for OpenStack...
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Meet & Drink: OpenStack in Production – Event Highlights
As a matter of tradition at this point, we offer a photo report, covering OpenStack Meetup event series hosted by Mirantis and Silicon Valley Cloud Center. Our December 14th event focused on sharing...
View ArticleDiablo RPM repository
Recently we've deployed OpenStack Diablo release for one of our customers. The target operating system happened to be CentOS 6.0. During deployment testing we've stumbled upon a number of bugs in...
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Introducing OpenStackAgent for Xen-based Clouds. What?
What it is all aboutNot long ago we’ve been working on deployment of OpenStack Cactus-based public cloud using Xen as an underlying hypervisor. One of the problems we’ve faced were Windows guest...
View ArticleUnder the hood of Swift. The Ring
This is the first post in series that summarizes our analysis of Swift architecture. We've tried to highlight some points that are not clear enough in the official documentation. Our primary base was...
View ArticleLong Live Enterprise Clouds
One active arena of cloud blog battles lately was about open vs. enterprise clouds. Randy Bias of Cloudscaling is on the forefront of open cloud advocacy with a clear stance that anything that is not...
View ArticleI hear the Essex Train a-coming
With Essex train in the wilds of testing, and the Essex release intended date less than 10 days away, we are pretty excited about everyone descending on San Francisco -- practically our home town --...
View ArticleSome Brutally Honest Thoughts on Citrix’s Defection
When I first heard the announcement about Cloud.com being spun off into the Apache foundation, my initial reaction was to interpret the event as a hostile move by one of the OpenStack community...
View ArticleThe New Open Source Superpower
Today is yet another important day in the history of OpenStack. The initial list of founding organizations for the independent OpenStack foundation has been announced and we, at Mirantis, are proud to...
View ArticleHow to Monetize the OpenStack Wave
After OpenStack was announced at OSCON in the summer of 2010, the degree of momentum behind this new open source platform has been nothing short of spectacular. Startups and enterprises alike have...
View ArticleOur blog has moved!
To help simplify search and navigation in the context of our main website, mirantis.com, we've moved our blog to mirantis.com/blog. You'll find a list of the posts we've moved below for your...
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