Author: Dr. Pranay Jha
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Configuring Keystone | OpenStack Swift – Part 3
Configuring Keystone:- Source the admin credentials to gain access to admin-only CLI commands: – $ source adminrc.sh Create the swift user: $ openstack user create –domain default –password-prompt swift Check if user is created successfully: openstack user show swift Add the admin role to the swift user: $ openstack role add –project admin –user swift…
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Deploy Multi node Openstack Swift – Queens Configuration | OpenStack Swift – Part 2
In this session, we will deploy Multi node Openstack Swift – Queens Configuration. Lab Setup: Server Names : node1, node3 and Node4 OS : CentOS 7.3 – 64 bit Enabled Internet Connection Prerequisites Make sure each hosts are reachable. I make an entries in hosts file only. Verify the internet connection, bcos we use public…
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An Overview of Swift – An Object Storage Service | OpenStack Swift – Part 1
What is Swift? The OpenStack – Swift (Object Storage) is a multi-tenant object storage system. It is highly scalable and can manage large amounts of unstructured data at low cost through a RESTful HTTP API. Swift is a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object/blob store. Organizations can use Swift to store lots of data efficiently,…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 5.3 – Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches
vSphere Standard Switch vs vSphere Distributed Switch
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GCP Part 3 – Google Cloud Platform Services Overview
Google Cloud Platform provides IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services. Google Cloud Platform offers services for compute, storage, networking, big data, machine learning and also internet of things (IoT), as well as cloud management, security and developer tools. Here we are listing out the main services which is being provided by Google Cloud Platform, while Google…
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GCP Part 2 – What is Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ?
Introduction of Cloud Platform (GCP) ? Google Cloud Platform is a suite of public cloud computing services offered by Google. The platform includes a collection of Google’s computing resources, made available via services to the general public as a public cloud offering. With Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you can build, test, and deploy applications on…
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GCP Part 1 – Google Cloud Platform – How to Start?
Welcome All, This blog is basically for beginners who have just started learning about Google Cloud Platform (GCP). First question come into mind that how shall we start exploring Google Cloud Platform. We need a platform where we can take console and start doing some L1 task. In this series of learning, we are going…
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UNIX/Linux Basic Command Reference
File Commands ls – directory listing ls -all – formatted listing with hidden files cd dir– change directory cd– change to home pwd– show current directory mkdir dir– create a directory dir rm file– delete file rm -r dir– delete directory dir rm -f file– force remove file rm -rf dir– force remove directory dir*…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 5.2 – Configure virtual switch security , traffic -shaping and load -balancing policies
Continuing to vSphere 6.7 Install, Configure, and Manage modules, today we are going to cover vSphere networking which is one of the tough parts to know for VMware admins and have lot of difficulties while applying the network policies. Points to Cover: – Understand Network Policies Security Polices Traffic Shaping Teaming & Failover Understand Load…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 6.4 – Extending a VMFS Volume.
Learning is a continuous process and never ends till the grave! As a VMware Admin, the most common & frequent task that falls on your plate is to extend a datastore. This blog is going to explain step by step process to achieve the same requirement. Points to Cover: – Extending a VMFS volume. Increasing…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 6.3 – Creating VMFS Volume.
Hello All! Hope you are learning something new everyday. Remember! Together we learn, Together we rise! This blog helps you with the steps required to create a VMFS Volume in vSphere ESXi environment. Points to Cover: – Creating a VMFS Volume. Key Features of VMFS 6 over VMFS 5. Specifying the partition configuration for datastore.…
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vSphere 6.7 ICM – Topic 6.2 – Creating a NFS datastore.
A very Happy Learning to All! This blog explains you on how to create a NFS datastore in vSphere ESXi hosts along with its configuration options. Points to Cover: – Creating a NFS datatore. Brief overview of NFS 4.1 & NFS 3. Providing “NFS share details”. Datastore Name, Moutpoint name and NFS server IP. Brief…
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About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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