Download the ISO image and burn the same onto a USB stick. Insert the USB stick in the server and power on (My server is Dell R430) Press F11 and enter Boot Manager Select Oneshot UEFI Boot option Select boot from the USB stick Select Install Server Select English Language (or whatever your choice is)…
Category: Installation Steps
Orchestrating Guest VM(s) using simple scripts on KVM host.
As a developer, I had a need to spin up VMs as and when required. The more I started working on Kubernetes, the need to automate the spinning up of multiple VMs to bring up a setup for configuring a cluster. There were several options, solutions already available to automate the same on KVM. However,…
Installing KVM
Pre-requisite Install Debian 11 or Ubuntu 20.04 server as required. Optional I had upgraded the kernel version by compiling the kernel as explained in this how-to. Installing KVM on Debian Simple and easy – First, install the required packages apt install -y qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils virtinst libvirt-daemon virt-manager Additionally, I had installed libguestfs-tools, for…
Installing NFS Server
The objective is to configure the NFS server on one of the servers in the LAB. Creating the NFS client-server setup is a simple task that can be performed in a few steps – installation, export, mounting, and access. On the server install the required package apt install -y nfs-kernel-server Create a directory that gets…
Openstack – Train : Cinder – Block storage service
<<< Horizon Configure networks, router, flavour and launch instance >>> Create database for cinder services CREATE DATABASE cinder;GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cinder.* TO ‘cinder’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON…
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Openstack – Train : Placement services
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Openstack – Train : Glance – Image Service
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