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OpenStack on Hyper-V – Icehouse 2014.1.3 – Best tested compute component?
Releasing stable components of a large cloud computing platform like OpenStack is not something that can be taken lightheartedly, there are simply too many variables and moving parts that need to be...
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reBot – using Lego for bare metal deployments on Intel NUC
Here at Cloudbase, we use a lot of Intel Next Unit of Computing (NUC) for our internal testing and development work. The NUC is a small form factor computer, designed and manufactured by Intel, very...
View ArticleSaltStack states for OpenStack
Cloudbase Solutions has partnered with Spirent to build and release a suite of SaltStack states for deploying OpenStack, supporting Icehouse, Juno and Kilo releases, on multiple target platforms. These...
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Windows + Open Compute + MAAS = ♥
As most of you may already know, here at Cloudbase Solutions we love to bridge the gap between Microsoft Windows and open source technologies, starting with OpenStack. Recently we’ve had the...
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VirtualBox driver for OpenStack
More and more people are interested in cloud computing and OpenStack but many of them give it up because they can’t test or interact with this kind of infrastructure. This is mostly a result of either...
View ArticleCloudbase Solutions and Canonical partner to deliver Windows Hyper-V support...
Vancouver – OpenStack Summit – 18 May 2015: Cloudbase Solutions, the developer of Windows components in OpenStack, announced today that it is partnering with Canonical to enable their customers to run...
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The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?
The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed and deployed. The upending of these long...
View ArticleHow to easily deploy OpenStack Kilo with Puppet – Part 1
There are plenty of online resources about Puppet and OpenStack, but after a quick search I noticed that none of them was actually providing what people might actually be looking for: a simple manifest...
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How to add Hyper-V compute nodes to a Mirantis Fuel deployment
Our OpenStack Hyper-V Installer works with any OpenStack cloud, including clouds deployed using Mirantis Fuel. The goal of this article is not to provide a guide to deploy Fuel (for that you can use...
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OpenStack + Windows Nano Server
Nano Server is a Windows OS created for the cloud age. It has been announced by Microsoft this April and is going to be shipped with Windows Server 2016. What makes Nano Server special? A very small...
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Open vSwitch 2.4 on Hyper-V – Part 1
We are happy to announce the availability of the Open vSwitch (OVS) 2.4.0 beta for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012, 2012 R2 and 2016 (technical preview) thanks to the joint effort of Cloudbase Solutions,...
View ArticleOpen vSwitch 2.4 on Hyper-V – Part 2
OVS VXLAN setup on Hyper-V without OpenStack In the previous post we explained how to deploy Open vSwitch (OVS) on Hyper-V and integrate it in an OpenStack context. In this second part we’ll explain...
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How to add Hyper-V compute nodes to a Mirantis Fuel deployment
Our OpenStack Hyper-V Compute Driver works with any OpenStack cloud, including clouds deployed using Mirantis Fuel. The goal of this article is not to provide a guide to deploy Fuel (for that you can...
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OpenStack + Windows Nano Server
Nano Server is a Windows OS created for the cloud age. It has been announced by Microsoft this April and is going to be shipped with Windows Server 2016. What makes Nano Server special? A very small...
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Open vSwitch 2.4 on Hyper-V – Part 1
We are happy to announce the availability of the Open vSwitch (OVS) 2.4.0 beta for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012, 2012 R2 and 2016 (technical preview) thanks to the joint effort of Cloudbase Solutions,...
View ArticleOpen vSwitch 2.4 on Hyper-V – Part 2
OVS VXLAN setup on Hyper-V without OpenStack In the previous post we explained how to deploy Open vSwitch (OVS) on Hyper-V and integrate it in an OpenStack context. In this second part we’ll explain...
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Hyper-Converged OpenStack on Windows Nano Server
Introducing the first fully Hyper-Converged Windows® server and OpenStack based cloud infrastructure that eliminates the need for expensive dedicated storage hardware, enabling distributed data...
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Hyper-Converged OpenStack on Windows Nano Server – Part 2
In the previous article in this series we gave you a quick overview of why OpenStack and Windows Nano Server provide some of the most exciting elements in the current Windows ecosystem. In this article...
View ArticleNano Server on KVM and ESXi
There’s quite some documentation already available on how to run Windows Nano Server on Hyper-V or bare metal, but what about other hypervisors? Here at Cloudbase Solutions we often need to build...
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Announcing project Coriolis – Cloud Migration as a Service
Migrating existing workloads between clouds is a necessity for a large number of use cases, especially for user moving from traditional virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere or Microsoft...
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