One of the ways that we are able to accomplish regularly scheduled maintenance is by utilizing Live Migration, with this we can migrate workloads from one physical machine to another without having service interruption. The way that it is done with Logical Domains is much more flexible than with most…
Bash: Duplicate Logical Volume Configuration for a Volume Group
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to create a large number of Logical Volumes for a server replacement situation. I could have done some manual data input, but why not take the opportunity to quickly write a script to do the hard work for me? For my…
Linux-KVM Management: Offline Migration
When you compare Linux-KVM to Hyper-V or VMWare your initial results will indicate that Linux-KVM is lacking when it comes to management tools, and basic functionality. You would be correct, however you would also be incorrect. You see with Linux-KVM we can leverage the underlying power of the Linux userland,…