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SD here we come
Here we go, brand new site and great new products to show at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego. We did a huge amount of work lately bringing OpenStack to the Microsoft world, including the new Hyper-V...
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Using FreeRDP to connect to the Hyper-V console
Accessing Microsoft’s Hyper-V console is typically performed by running Hyper-V Manager / vmconnect on a Windows Server host or Windows 7 / 8 equipped with RSAT. There are unfortunately quite a few...
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Installing OpenStack Nova Compute on Hyper-V
We did a lot of work this year on OpenStack and Hyper-V integration, with the result of bringing back Hyper-V in the Nova sources in time for the Folsom release. We are currently working on a lot of...
View ArticleFiltering Glance images for Hyper-V
In a number of scenarios it’s very useful to have different hypervisors in your OpenStack infrastructure, for example you might have KVM or XEN for Linux images and Hyper-V for Windows images. How can...
View ArticleHow to solve DevStack error “Exception Value: /usr/bin/env: node: No such...
After installing DevStack on your Ubuntu machine, when trying to access the OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) you might get the following error: Exception Value: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or...
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DevStack on Hyper-V
DevStack is without any doubt one of the easiest ways to set up an OpenStack environment for testing or development purposes (no production!!). It’s also a great way to test the Hyper-V Nova Compute...
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Cloud-Init for Windows instances
The automated initialization of a new instance is a task that needs to be split between the cloud infrastructure and the guest OS. OpenStack provides the required metadata via HTTP or via ConfigDrive...
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Cinder-Volume on Windows Storage Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 and Windows Storage Server 2012 offer an integrated iSCSI Target service that can be used with Cinder Volume in your stack. Being entirely a software solution, consider it in...
View ArticleFreeRDP for Windows – Nightly builds
As part of our work with FreeRDP, we need to frequently build the Windows client based on the latest available code and since we already provide freely available automated nightly builds for our...
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Multi-node OpenStack RDO on RHEL and Hyper-V – Part 1
We are getting a lot of requests about how to deploy OpenStack in proof of concept (PoC) or production environments as, let’s face it, setting up an OpenStack infrastructure from scratch without the...
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OpenStack Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluation
Our official OpenStack Windows Server evaluation images got updated to the freshly released 2012 R2 version just in time for the Hong Kong summit! Full support for OpenStack Havana is included for KVM...
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How to create Windows OpenStack images
We get regularly a lot of requests about how to generate Windows OpenStack images, especially for KVM, where the proper VirtIO drivers need to be installed. This article provides all the step required...
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Multi-node OpenStack RDO on RHEL and Hyper-V – Part 2
Here’s our second post in the RDO + Hyper-V series targeting Havana and automation. We had lots of great feedbacks about the first post, along with many requests about how to troubleshoot network...
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Windows authentication without passwords in OpenStack
The usage of passwords is a common practice to authenticate users, but it becomes also a weak point when it comes to password distribution and management of a large number of servers, like for example...
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OpenStack Havana 2013.2.2 Hyper-V compute installer released!
Following the recent announcement last Friday of the availability of OpenStack Havana release 2013.2.2, we’re glad to announce that the Havana 2013.2.2 Hyper-V Nova compute installer is available for...
View ArticleOpenStack Windows instances, Puppet and Heat
Putting together OpenStack and Puppet is a great way to satisfy almost any deployment scenario. There are a lot of resources on the web about how to set up such an infrastructure, but mostly Linux...
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FreeRDP HTML5 proxy on Windows
FreeRDP-WebConnect is an open source HTML5 proxy that provides web access to any Windows server and workstation using RDP. The result is amazing, especially considering that no native client is...
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Windows support in Ubuntu Juju, MaaS and OpenStack
We’re very pleased to announce a new partnership between Cloudbase Solutions and Canonical for bringing Windows support in Juju and Maas. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth showed a great demo of OpenStack...
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Open vSwitch on Hyper-V
I’m very excited to announce the availability of the Open vSwitch porting to Microsoft Hyper-V Server beta release. This effort enables a whole new set of interoperability scenarios between Hyper-V and...
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How to set Hyper-V promiscuous mode for monitoring external traffic
A Hyper-V related question that shows regularly up in the forums is how to setup virtual switch ports in promiscuous mode so that external traffic can be received / monitored on the host’s root...
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