One might argue what is the point in running a cloud infrastructure software like OpenStack on top of another one, namely the Azure public cloud as in this blog post. The main use cases are typically testing and API compatibility, but as Azure nested virtualization and pass-through features came a long way recently in terms…
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In the previous blog post we created the ARM OpenStack Kolla container images and we can now proceed with deploying OpenStack. The host is a Lenovo server with an Ampere Computing eMAG 32 cores Armv8 64-bit CPU, running Ubuntu Server 20.04. For simplicity, this will be an “All-in-One” deployment, where all OpenStack components run on…
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This is the beginning of a short series detailing how to deploy OpenStack on ARM64, using Docker containers with Kolla and Kolla-ansible. The objective of this first post is to create the ARM64 container images and push them to a remote registry in order to be used later on, when deploying our OpenStack cloud. We…
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Microsoft Azure Stack brings Azure on-premise and with that comes the opportunity to migrate your workloads from other on-prem cloud and virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere, System Center VMM, Hyper-V or OpenStack. Coriolis provides an agentless migration and DRaaS solution to consolidate all your workloads on an Azure Stack on-premise cluster or on the Azure…
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Both Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation / Fusion use the popular VMDK virtual disk format, optionally as part of an OVA package. Here’s a quick HOWTO on converting VMDK disks to the VHD or VHDX formats for Hyper-V or Azure To begin with, if you have a file with the OVA extension (e.g. exported from VirtualBox), this is just…
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Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. It can be deployed on Azure, but also on-premise, thus making OpenStack a great choice for the latter. We are going to use Juju to deploy our Azure Service Fabric cluster directly on OpenStack…
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