As one of our final validation points in an ongoing project has been enabling ESX to use a LAG on both the Management and VM Networks. The last time we did this we were unable to get it to work, and it turns out the solution was actually very simple. …
vCenter: VPXD Crash
Recently I was trying to resolve an issue on a small vCenter 5.0.0 deployment. Basically the primary symptom of the issue was that the service the vmware-vxpd service was crashing and needing to be restarted frequently. The first thing I did was examine the log files, while the service was…
Installing OpenIndiana in a Xen DomU
So I am on the ground in Dallas and trying to get my head around some of the technologies that we use in my new environment. One of those being the Xen kernel. I have never actually used Xen before, though I have used xenserver a bit. Anyways so my…
Linux-KVM: Converting Raw Disk Images to LVM Logical Volumes Redux
This really is an update to my previous article “Linux-KVM: Converting Raw Disk Images to LVM Logical Volumes“, but the process is significantly different and thus requires more explaining than a simple inline update would do it justice. Now the big flaw with my first article was that by using…