I’m going to skip the explanations of these things, and jump right to the how to set them up in Proxmox. I am working with Proxmox 1.4, and a Cisco 4506 switch. The Cisco has several vLANs configured, and the Proxmox host has dual Intel NICs on eth0 and eth1. On the Cisco switch, we ...Read More
Category: Virtualization
When it comes to virtualization systems, Proxmox is my hypervisor distribution of choice. While it has an excellent web interface, it only provides real-time resource usage information. While useful, being able to look at resource usage over time can be an added benefit when troubleshooting a system problem. Thankfully, since Proxmox is Linux, there are ...Read More
Linux w/ KVM. I’ve been waiting a long time (almost 3 years) for it to mature both in technical capability and in corporate viability. I started using it in limited production use about 2 years ago, and in the past 12 months have migrated all physical and virtual systems over to it. In one location ...Read More
Red Hat goes to Beta with it’s KVM based Virtualization platform. KVM is a module for Linux that turns the Linux kernel into a Hypervisor. It is already used in many deployments around the world. I am currently a heavy implementer of it, utilizing the Proxmox Linux distribution, which is a complete Linux installation customized ...Read More
When running a virtualized Windows Server with SMP (multi-processor) on hardware that has an AMD processor, you may notice a strange issue with timing. It is easy to recognize; open a Command Prompt, and ping an IP address (I ping-ed a local peer). You will get strange response times, such as -61000, 2100, etc. The ...Read More
Red Hat today announced that they will be joining the certification program for running Microsoft OS’s on Red Hat’s hypervisor, KVM. You can read more at this link. (additionally Microsoft will be joining Red Hat’s certification program to certify Hyper-V for running RHEL) Now, I personally don’t need this to know that KVM is the ...Read More
Picking a Path When you think of your SAN (or any IT system, for that matter) there are two areas to address: the hardware and the software. There are many ways to go about putting together a SAN for your environment. Some possible options might be: Buy a SAN from a SAN provider: Equalogic/ Dell, ...Read More