July 2013 – Page 2 – Chubby Apple

Managing Linux Hypervisors through Windows

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Vitaly

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One of the pitfalls with using Windows as a workstation (which I need to as my wife uses the same machine – we consolidated into one machine) is that you cannot run virt-manager to handle your virtual machines. Additionally, the ESXi VMWare client only runs natively on Windows, so you must have at least one

Security Zone Configuration

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Vitaly

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This is essentially the schema of what we are trying to do. Since we are running this in our house (or a dedicated WAN possibly at an office), I had a need to separate the server production subnet (at least in my nomenclature) vs the end-users (such as my wife and kids). I could have

Juniper SSG5 Configuration

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Vitaly

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In a production environment, you would want to separate the hypervisor and storage network to different networks/switches (just for easier management), but in our setup we will use one switch with multiple VLANs to isolate the traffic. This is more a function of cash flow for me as managed switches are usually several hundred dollars

Hypervisor Network

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Vitaly

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Storage CentOS Server (Phoenix)

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Vitaly

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The primary storage server (don’t want to call what I have as a SAN really as it’s just one server, not a filer with added modules) and has the following specs: Dell R510 Server 1 (Phoenix) Primary Purpose: Storage CPU: Single E5520 Xeon CPU (quad core) RAM: 8GB DDR3 ECC Registered First RAIDset: Two 160GB

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