As I mentioned in my previous blog post, trying out Ganeti can be cumbersome and I went out and created a platform for testing it out using Vagrant. Now I have a PDF guide that you can use to walk through some of the basics steps of using Ganeti along …

Ganeti is a very powerful tool but often times people have to look for spare hardware to try it out easily. I also wanted to have a way to easily test new features of Ganeti Web Manager (GWM) and Ganeti Instance Image without requiring additional hardware. While I do have …

One of the best features of Ganeti is its ability to grow linearly by adding new servers easily. We recently purchased a new server to expand our ever growing production cluster and needed to rebalance cluster. Adding and expanding the cluster consisted of the following steps:

1. Installing the base OS …

I've been asked quite a bit about how I do our network setup with Ganeti. I admit that it did take me a bit to figure out a sane way to do it in Gentoo. Unfortunately (at least in baselayout-1.x) bringing up VLANs with bridge interfaces in Gentoo is …